This past week was horrible and the coming week will be no better. I’m in a world of emotional pain, I won’t go into why, but I need to take a short break.
I’ll be back in a week, maybe less.
Thanks,
Rob Goldstein
Category: San Francisco
Nor a Bird More Pure
I soar above the red rooftops
of the City
above the steeples
of the
Mission Dolores Church
below the dusty ledges
of the
Transamerica Pyramid
there never was a sky more
blue
nor a bird more pure.
Image and text (c) Rob Goldstein 2017-2019
This is What a Christian Looks Like
“Dr. Martin Luther King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, when he was twenty-five years old, in 1954. As a Christian minister, his main influence was Jesus Christ and the Christian gospels, which he would almost always quote in his religious meetings, speeches at church, and in public discourses. King’s faith was strongly based in Jesus’ commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself, loving God above all, and loving your enemies, praying for them and blessing them. His nonviolent thought was also based in the injunction to turn the other cheek in the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus’ teaching of putting the sword back into its place (Matthew 26:52). In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, King urged action consistent with what he describes as Jesus’ “extremist” love, and also quoted numerous other Christian pacifist authors, which was very usual for him. In another sermon, he stated:
“Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the Gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. You know, actually all that I do in civil rights I do because I consider it a part of my ministry. I have no other ambitions in life but to achieve excellence in the Christian ministry. I don’t plan to run for any political office. I don’t plan to do anything but remain a preacher. And what I’m doing in this struggle, along with many others, grows out of my feeling that the preacher must be concerned about the whole man.”
10 Harsh Facts
1. More black men are behind bars or under the watch of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved in 1850. Michelle Alexander
2. Legal is not the same as moral or right.
3. A great sex life is not the same as a great love life.
4. One can only be an individual in a social setting.
5. If you decide to live as a digital doll, don’t expect grown ups to respect
you for it.
6. If love is like an itching in your heart, it’s not love
7. The only real sin is making others suffer.
8. Looking young is not the same as being hot.
9. There’s more to life than being alive.
10. One in Four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before age 18.
Rob Goldstein 2015 -2019
Revised June 2019
