*** the Fog the Pain the Loss the Grief the Waste the Carnage the Courage the Sadness the Madness the Heartache the Brokenness the Remembering the Forgetting the Suffering the Forgiving the Renewing the Honoring the Healing the Hoping the Redeeming the Madness the Madness the Echos the Madness the Madness *** *** See 1-minute snippets of wisdom and other musings from the world’s great thinkers and artists, accompanied by lovely photography at Traversing’s 1-minute Facebook mini-blog: http://www.facebook.com/TraversingBlog Twitter: @AndrewHidas Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewhidas/ Deep appreciation to the photographers! Elizabeth Haslam, whose photos (except for the books) grace the rotating banner at…
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As a worship associate in my church, I periodically help produce services, assisting the presiding minister by doing readings and planning various other activities that help shape what takes place in the sanctuary every Sunday. In our congregation, it also involves presenting a personal reflection that is tied to the topic of the service. At yesterday’s Veteran’s Day service, I reflected on my own experience of grappling with the Selective Service System draft as I came of age in the late 1960s, just in time for the Vietnam era. After I got home, I sent the text to my longtime…