tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580853920794671612024-03-13T00:41:09.242-07:00Ambit's Gambit (Albert B. Casuga Literary Blog)Ambit's Gambit is Albert B. Casuga's blog for his poetry, fiction, essays, literary theory, literary criticism, art criticism, and commentary on life, living, and the human condition.ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-53650332862717773882018-02-19T04:49:00.001-08:002018-02-19T04:49:45.121-08:00THE AGING BRAIN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Dear Albert Casuga :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I would greatly appreciate your help getting word out via your blog or other social media sites on a new book that can help people avoid losing their mental acuity as they age. Please read the following for more information. Thank you so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If there were something you could do to help stave off dementia and preserve your independence, would you do it? Psychiatrist and author Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., explores the choices anyone can make to retain mental acuity into old age in his newest book, The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.66px;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Aging Brain: A Road Map for Keeping A Sharp Mind Into Old Age</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><strong>Chattanooga, TN, February 15, 2018</strong> ― Growing older is inevitable, but many of the afflictions associated with old age—including dementia, disability and increased dependence on others—don't have to be. So if you could, would you choose to break the mold of aging?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Psychiatrist and international speaker Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., may have some insights. Dr. Jennings prescribes simple, everyday actions we all can take to stave off disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late-onset Alzheimer's. "The choices we make now can help us to keep our minds sharp and maintain our independence as we age,” says Jennings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">An easy-to-use guide to maintaining brain and body health throughout life, The Aging Brain is based on solid, up-to-date scientific research, and the interventions discussed may help prevent progression toward dementia, even in those already showing signs of mild cognitive impairment. The recommendations also may help reduce disability and depression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"This book isn't just for people hoping to slow the aging process,” says Jennings. "It's also for anyone who is a caregiver to someone at risk of or already beginning to suffer from dementia. It offers a hopeful, healthy way forward.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Jennings, who maintains a private practice in Chattanooga, TN, has authored several books, including The God-Shaped Brain and The God-Shaped Heart. He has spent more than two decades researching the interface between biblical principles and modern brain science. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Life Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association, Jennings is president and founder of Come and Reason Ministries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For more information about Dr. Jennings and to hear his lectures, please visit the website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.comeandreason.com&source=gmail&ust=1519130715221000&usg=AFQjCNGDiqP8jS_-rrvyIBq6a6_6HqKmfg" href="http://www.comeandreason.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.comeandreason.com</a>.</span></div>
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<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position: static;" /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind</span><br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position: static;" /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Baker Books</span><br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position: static;" /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Release Date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1527182647" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 19, 2018</span></span></span><br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position: static;" /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ISBN-10: 080107522X</span><br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; position: static;" /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ISBN-13: 978-0801075223</span></div>
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What's on my mind? My Poem Today. Dad at 97. If he were still here. His birthday today. I would split a Pedro Domecq with him. But he is not here to call for the "bottoms up". Now that I could drink him under Mom's table, he is not here. All right, I could cede you that prowess, Dad. But now, I could outrace you.</div>
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You will tarry, won't you?<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> Now I know I could outrace you<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> to that boulder where you left <br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> the bones for Sport, my Sport.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> Oh. You are right. I lost him<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> when I was eight. Ran over.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> Uncle Joe told me when I whistled<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> for him for his supper. I just ate him, he said.</div>
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You will make up for my stream of tears.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> would you? You laughed. I cried.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> A man does not cry. Ever. You chided.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> But I am 74, Daddy. I am still crying.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> Not for Sport. This time because I can outrun<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> you. But you have left. The boulder, too, is gone.</div>
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(For Nenita Buenaventura Casuga+ Mommy)</div>
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There, atop the hill overlooking the sea,<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> You waited for him to come and get you.</div>
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"Come out of the shadow, Nenet, baket ko.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> I have waited this long. Come with me."</div>
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Grasping his hands, you let out a sigh,<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> "What took you so long, Paking? I waited."</div>
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Atop that hill overlooking the sea, he tarried.<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> He knew she would brood and ask: "Why?"</div>
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"They were not ready with the Nara hut,<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> Where I would take you and our children;</div>
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Yes, atop a hill overlooking the sea, when<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> it is done, we will all be there; keep it shut</div>
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from rain, where there can only be sunshine<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> atop that hill overlooking the sea. Come then."</div>
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Mommy, you held Daddy's hands gently, and<br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> came out of the shadow. There was no rain.</div>
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(Con amor duradero, Mommy. We love you.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga :</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You're invited to experience life at the coldest and most isolated place on Earth — from the warmth and comfort of your living room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole immerses readers in one couple's extraordinary journey as they travel to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and adapt to the challenges of living and working where the temperatures plunge to 100 below zero.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Written by scientist John Bird and composer Jennifer McCallum, One Day, One Night is an honest, riveting account that juxtaposes world-class science with the awe-inspiring natural wonders of Antarctica.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Experience Life At The Coldest And Most Isolated Place On Earth</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>New York, NY, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_261996736" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">December 15, 2017</span></span></span></strong> ― Imagine, for a moment, spending one year at the bottom of the world, in 100-below-zero temperatures. One couple chose to not only imagine it, but to also live it, and they've written a riveting account of their unforgettable experiences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_261996737" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">In One Day</span></span></span>, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole, scientist John Bird along with writer and composer Jennifer McCallum take readers along on a journey like no other, as they fly to the middle of Antarctica and live under the dome for a year with 50 other researchers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book's title is a nod to the six-month-long "day” of 24-hour sunlight and the six-month-long "night” of perpetual darkness. The nonfiction narrative provides a candid, first-hand account of the challenges the couple faced as they tried to adapt — both physically and emotionally — to a year of isolation in the unforgiving environment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One Day, One Night also immerses readers in the station's incredible microcosm of scientific discovery, where researchers study not only the mysteries of climate change that lie frozen beneath them but also the astrophysics of the heavens above through the famous South Pole Telescopes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is where world-class science happens against a backdrop of spectacular natural phenomena and where the extreme conditions prove that the human body's ability to adapt is nothing short of miraculous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Author Jennifer McCallum holds an M.A. in music composition and has composed chamber and choral works. While living at the South Pole, she wrote an article for The Globe and Mail titled "Poetry at the South Pole,” and she also wrote a feature-length cover story for Musicworks, a magazine circulated among the Canadian and American experimental music scene. Musicworks also distributed a sound recording of her chamber work, "Continuus Line,” which describes barren landscapes. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As an atmospheric scientist, author John Bird spent several winters at a remote observatory near the North Pole studying the ozone hole, prior to his posting at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. He holds a Ph.D. in space science and has taught at several universities, including Imperial College in London. He climbed the Matterhorn and Denali mountains, and broke the world altitude record for hang gliding by descending from a helium balloon at 35,000 feet. He has trained with NASA astronauts both underwater and in zero-g aircraft to develop experiments. He has published over 70 magazine articles and peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is the author of The Upper Atmosphere, published by NASA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole was awarded Honorable Mention from the New York Book Festival and was a finalist in the New Generation Indie Book Awards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CreateSpace </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-10: 1539947300 </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-13: 978-1539947301</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Available on Amazon.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Howard Golden, Former Chief Publications Officer at NASA Headquarters: "A riveting account of the challenges, the adventure, the wonder of life at the South Pole Station.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Marta Tandori, Readers' Favorite: "One Day, One Night is a no-holds-barred recounting of one couple's adventure living and working in some of the most extreme conditions known to mankind, in one of the most desolate places on planet Earth. … What is particularly noteworthy about this book is the candor with which both authors tell their stories. … Once at the South Pole, survival takes on paramount importance – and not just from the harsh elements. … One Day, One Night gives its readers multifaceted portraits of the South Pole; the natural, the human, the divine. As the authors themselves state, it is a 'place of contrasts of experiences, contrasts of emotions. The South Pole presented the opportunity to live on the limits of our natural habitat; on the limits of our emotion resources; on the limits of how we define ourselves, of how we define others.' The perfect read for adventure junkies and those eager to read about the road less traveled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review from Amazon.com: This is a terrific account. It describes the stress of operating remotely for months, without support from outside, while accommodating or suppressing niggling conflicts. Science conducted there is explained with clarity. The colourful personalities of the "polies" are beautifully painted. Even the minor details of day to day living are interesting. The accounts are told from the points of view of the two authors who are candid about their reactions and frustrations. This is a worthwhile read for its own sake, and for anyone interested in the social dynamics of people living in tight quarters.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br />
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<tr><td><b>Francisco Albano </b><obsculta57 yahoo.com=""></obsculta57></td><td align="right">Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:23 AM</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #407f00; font-style: italic;">"El Senor te bendiga y te guarde;<br clear="none" />el Senor te mire con agrado y te extienda su amor;<br clear="none" />el Senor te muestre su favor y te conceda la paz."<br clear="none" /> </span><span style="color: #407f00;"> (Numeros 6:24-26)</span></div>
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<b>To:</b> Francisco R. Albano <<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">obsculta57@yahoo.com</a>></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 3, 2017, 2:06:41 PM GMT+8</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ECUMENICAL PRAYER DAYS FOR PEACE</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Prayer Guide Dec 1-10 Human Rights Day</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Gal, 5:1 EST)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let the STARS shine through by putting on lanterns, on doorposts, and on decorative posts, cards with the message;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">PEACE not Tyranny</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Christ our STAR who lights our path</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A Fire that burns against the darkness of night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A Passion for TRUTH so that JUSTICE will thrive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A SPIRIT, AN ENERGY that defines what LOVE is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gently and Radically awaken us, to work in SOLIDARITY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To speak when a tyrant wants us to be quiet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To rise up when a tyrant wants us to kneel down and bow before him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To resurrect in us our will and resolve to fight for justice and peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When our people are killed, incarcerated, and persecuted</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">in the name of the empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As we celebrate the birth of Christ, let us ponder on how we can bring in the LIGHT that could lead us to TRUTH, PEACE, JUSTICE, and SOLIDARITY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Duterte’s arbitrary termination of the peace talks with the National Democratic Front, and tagging CPP-NPA-NDF, with whom the GRP is having Peace Talks with as terrorist justifies the intensified militarization,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The crackdown of activists and the organizations that promote social justice who are being maligned as conspirators to destabilize the government. As of November 20, 2017, Duterte has already added 134 persons to the number of political prisoners currently languishing in different jails across the country. Under Duterte, there are 104 victims of politically-motivated extra-judicial killings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The unrepentant mode of the Philippine National Police on the dirty and bloody “war on drugs” and the plan to bring back the operations from PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) to the PNP. Thousands have been killed in the name of war </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.25in;">on drugs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The undermining of the system of check and balances by impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and Ombudsman Conchita Carpio- Morales. They are known critic of the War on Drugs of Pres. Duterte.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The fake “revolutionary government” that is only meant to lay down the political infrastructure for dictatorship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We encourage our global community to pray and act individually and collectively – church, fellowship, organization, communities, convents, prayer circles etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The accompanying prayer guide is herewith. You may use this suggested prayer or compose a prayer of your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Make a star lantern, sticker, decoration with a message: PEACE NOT TYRANNY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You may place it on your Christmas trees, doorposts, sticker</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For a wider circulation- use social media like Facebook, Tweeter, Google Plus, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Share it through PCPR, Pilgrims for Peace</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Suggested calls to be posted with STAR Lanterns(PAROL)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">No to Dictatorship! Yes to Democracy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Never Again to Another Dictatorship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">PEACE NOT TYRANNY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Itakwil ang huwad na “revolutionary government” ni Duterte!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">No to fake “revolutionary government” of Duterte!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Labanan ang mga atake sa karapatang pantao!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stop Repression! Stop Human Rights Violations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">End Impunity! Let Justice Prevail!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Activism is not Terrorism!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> to a yoke of slavery. (Gal, 5:1 EST)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 1 Indigenous People Weena Meiley ,Catholic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 2 Good Government Prof. Lizette G. Tapia Raquel , United Methodist(UMC)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 3 Political Prisoners Rev. Fr. Paco Albano , Diocese of Isabela</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 4 Jeepney Drivers And Transportation Service Prof. Revelation E. Velunta, United Methodist Church (UMC)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 5 Workers Jeff Vito, Roman Catholic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 6 Migrants Rev. Cathy Chang , Presbyterian Church</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 7 Urban Poor Noy Loyola , Redemptorist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 8 Children Fr. Edprim Gaza, CM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 9 Prayer to End Impunity Cheekai dela Cruz, United Methodist Church(UMC) / Becca Lawson , Presbyterian</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dec 10 Peace not Tyranny Nick Primavera , United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Fr. Francisco Albano Norma P. Dollaga, United Methodist Church (UMC)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 1 —A Prayer for the Indigenous People</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Breathing Prayer from the Land , An Indigenous Prayer for the Whole of Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bow to Earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bowing to Earth we love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Living this life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Upholding truth in all its faces</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The land we hold in our hearts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Source of Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We offer our Be-ing to You.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bow to Air</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bowing to Air we breathe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The wind in all its glory</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Holding all life in one accord</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Breathing Life in all living beings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Maker of Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We lift up our Be-ing to You.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bow To Water</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bowing to water flowing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All waters washing, cleansing, renewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Blood in us a-flowing, as rivers streaming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All of life abound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Giver of Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Move our Be-ing to You.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bow To Fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bowing to Fire a-flaming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Raising our hands in praise</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Oh fire! Flare forth, run, rise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Burn unto Love and blaze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Renewer of Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Transform our Be-ing unto You.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Remember O Creator of all Life, our suffering, our loss</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our Land, our Be-ing, lost in the hands of greed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Send forth the Spirits of Earth, Air, Water and Fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To restore all of Life’s ruin and desolation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Increase our faith and love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To act on your call</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To give voice to our desire for a just society</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To transform our misery and pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And to live a life of peace with all Beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">May our prayer be.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 2 —A Prayer for Good Governance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every broken dream and vision…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hear our lamentations and vision Bathala!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every soil untilled and possessed by a landlord</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A farmer could have brought forth grain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every forest made bare</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">An old man could have taken shelter in sunshine and in rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every river poisoned</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All mothers could have filled their children’s hunger and thirst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every mountain mined and plundered</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">An entire community could have lived simply, safe and sustained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every indigenous leader killed to be silenced</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A community will rise to seek justice amidst pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every youth leader abducted to sow fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A new generation will rise, remember and resist, again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every child torn from a mother’s arms by raging floods</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Another child will be born to embody hope, faith and love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every mother grieving and hurting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A sister, mother or daughter will raise her up to embody God above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every human being denied of human rights</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Another must find courage to protest, resist and demand dignity for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every child still hungry in the midst of plenty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A community must find compassion to nurture and heed their silent call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every people oppressed by the few and powerful</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A leadership must rise up to be a true servant of the poor and dispossessed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Lead us God of struggling people …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For every broken dream and vision</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We must rise again to seek new revelations, amidst our protests</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If revolution would be an option of the masses, who are we to stop it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But we must stop the revolutionary government of Duterte that spells dictatorship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So help us God. ##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Prof. Lizette Tapia, Union Theological Seminary (UTS), Cavite</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 3 —A PRAYER FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Be mindful O Lord of our country’s political detainees</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Their tongues hearts mind and spirit free as the wind and sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The lilies of the field and the birds of the air and your love for all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Only their bodies behind prison bars and walls secured by guards</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Guns and barbed wire that have a low regard for human life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Be mindful O Lord of our country’s political detainees labeled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As criminals by big government big military big business lackeys</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of imperialist masters beholden to idols of self wealth power fame</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But jailed not is their political presence for all of good will to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And own in town and country unfenced beyond national borders</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Be mindful O Lord of our country’s political detainees</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And grant them and us all wisdom courage and perseverance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For the living of this hour in our collective demand from government</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Their release from prison freedom to love and serve the people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Respect for human rights the rule of law just and righteous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Be mindful O Lord of our country’s political detainees young old</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our brothers and sisters of burning faith lively hope fervent love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">With dreams unshattered of our country of justice and peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Grant that they be an undying inspiration to our people to struggle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For freedom democracy integrity of creation and prosperity for all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Paco Albano, Diocese of Isabela</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 4 —Prayer for the Jeepney Drivers on the Day of Transport Strike</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">KINGS OF THE ROAD</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ONE PEOPLE, ONE PRAYER</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">God, Parent of us all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We thank you for the life that you have given us so that, together,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">we can commit to face the challenges of the times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We thank you for each and everyone who is committed to concrete acts of solidarity and struggle; and whose hands are open and ready to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You know Duterte’s plans for Juan dela Cruz’s jeepney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You know these plans are motivated by greed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You know the hardships that this plan will bring to the over six hundred thousand jeepney drivers, their families, and their loved ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You also know, Lord, why we are here. Why we are together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeepneys are the masses’ response to the government’s indifference to public service after the Second World War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You also know that jeepneys are the people’s transformation of the American military jeep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You also know why we call them Kings of the Road. A title from the grassroots, from the masses, from the millions who ride them, from Aparri to Jolo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This is why there is a jeepney phaseout. They are the most recognizable symbol of the government’s impotence; of their being beholden to the powerful; of their being subservient to foreign control; lovers of money; indifferent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This is why we come before you, our Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Hand in hand, arm to arm, we promise you today: For the Kings of the Road, for Juan dela Cruz’s jeepneys; together with drivers, operators, and passengers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We are the hope, the answer to our dreams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We are the change, the world really needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">PARA SA MGA HARI NG KALSADA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ISANG BANSA, ISANG PANALANGIN</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dios na Magulang naming lahat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Marami pong salamat sa buhay na handog ninyo sa amin upang kami’y sama samang magtalaga ng pagkakaisa sa pagtugon sa mga hamon ng panahon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Marami pong salamat sa bawa’t isang bukas pusong handa sa kongkretong pagkilos at pakikibaka; at bukas ang mga palad sa pagtulong sa kapwa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam ninyo ang mga balak ni Duterte sa jeepney ni Juan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam n’yo rin ang lalim ng ganid ng mga nasa likod ng mga balak na ito.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam n’yo rin po ang dadalhing kahirapan ng mga balaking ito sa lampas ng anim na daang libong driver at sa kanilang mga pamilya at mahal sa buhay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam nyo rin, Panginoon, ang dahilan ng aming pakikibaka.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ang jeepney ay bunga ng masang tumugon sa kawalang pakialam ng gobyerno sa kapakanan ng maliliit pagkatapos ng Pangalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam n’yo po na ang jeepney ay pinanday ng Pinoy mula sa jeep na pandigma ng mga Kano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Alam n’yo po na ang jeepney ay Hari ng Kalsada, tatak na bigay ng aba, ng madla, ng milyon-milyong pasahero mula Aparri hanggang Jolo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kaya balak alisin ang jeepney; ang jeepney ang pinakamalawak na simbolo ng pagiging inutil ng gobyerno. Ng pagiging tuta sa mga nasa kapangyarihan. Ng pagiging maka-banyaga, mukhang pera, at walang pakialam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kaya lumalapit kami sa inyo ngayon, aming Dios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sama-sama kaming nangangako sa inyo ngayon…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Para sa mga Hari ng Kalsada, para sa jeepney ni Juan; kabalikat ang mga driver, mga operator, at mga pasahero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kami ang pag-asa na laging panaginip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kami ang pagbabago’ng aming minimithi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kahapon, ngayon, bukas, taong hinaharap,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kami ang bayang sagot sa dalanging hikbi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sa ngalan ng Ama, ng Anak, at ng Espiritu Santo, Amen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 5 — A Prayer for Workers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.” (Deuteronomy 24:14)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Yahweh, You are a God of justice and mercy. You always stand on the side of the poor, the oppressed, the secluded, the neglected and the marginalized. You care for your people. Today, we lift to you our poor workers who toil from sunrise ‘til dusk but still languish in dire poverty. Our carpenters and construction workers who work under the scorching heat of the sun do not have roofs over their heads. Our factory workers endure longer hours of labor, most often than not, in a hazardous and unwarranted working environment just to earn a living and, yet, at times they cannot afford to put a decent meal on their tables. Millions of our people cross international borders and bear the pain and anguish of separation from families and homeland</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">just to send their children to school and to secure a better life for their families. Many of our wage earners who remain in the country have to withstand the ENDO phenomenon, that for many years, has enslaved and transformed the workers into a “cheap rotating labor force” bereft of security of tenure, receiving low pay without benefits, who are discarded by their employers in a cycle of five to six month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">God of justice and mercy, you uphold the dignity and rights of the workers. Hear their cries and groaning. Keep us closely united to them through our compassion and our actions. We pray this day with hopeful hearts, believing that your justice and compassion will bring comfort and freedom to our Filipino workers. May the star of Bethlehem be our hope and light. Amen.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 6 —A Prayer for Migrants</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Peace, not Tyranny – Let the Star Lead Us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For the Migrants: Reflections on Matthew 2:1-12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A star signals a very different kingdom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A prophet declares that a ruler can arise from humble circumstances and reign in humility</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Even the powers-that-be shake in fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Through all these things, wise men know and follow the star that leads them to the Messiah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">King Herod still reigns with a new name, new rules, and new regimes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stars insist and persist on a very different reign and rule</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who are today’s people of wisdom?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Unlike the wise men from the East, our migrant workers are men and women. They come from many places other than the East.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the wise men from the East, our migrant workers – when their bodies and heads and spirits are not bent over in labor – look to the skies and stars, anticipate a reign of peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the wise men from the East, our migrant workers face leaders who do not affirm the value of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the wise men from the East, our migrant workers are among the first to bestow upon their families with their Christmas presents and their presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Lord God, who was born in humble circumstances and yet heralded with gifts as a king, we praise and glorify you. Guided by the star, the wise men from the East held onto the promise of a noble birth, heralding a king and kingdom, fully realized in the life and death of Jesus Christ. As men and women who are guided by the star, we follow in the footsteps of those first wise men from the East. We oppose tyranny. We move forward and work towards a reign of peace. We join with our migrant workers and their families, in their desires to be fully present through life together and not only moments during the holidays. We mourn the lives lost of workers like Jakatia Pawa. We mourn the lives cut short of family members like Kian delos Santos, of migrant workers. We affirm the value of life in the face of abuse and exploitation. We affirm healthy and whole lives. We affirm sustainable livelihoods. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, Amen. ##</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 7 Prayer for the Urban Poor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Hear our cries, Hear our prayer, Hear our Hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">MAGNIFICAT FROM THE GUTTERS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Beneath this stingy cold cement bed where I sleep is a rich fertile soil waiting to be free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Beyond this desolate concrete massive bridge over my head is a great blue sky waiting for me to come out in the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At the farthest end of this filthy gutter under my feet is a wide cool ocean ready to refresh my weary and beaten body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the stored memory of these nearly wasted- disfigured hands and feet is the master plan for a new humane and caring city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Inside this insecure and worrisome mind is a vigorous and undying dream of a secure comfortable home among a winsome neighborhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At the inner most of this oppressed, ridiculed and weary heart is a blue print of a new unselfish human relations ready to sympathize with all those who suffer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the abject poverty of this most wretched life is a generous soul that knows no bounds ready to give it all away for the restoration of the original justice of creation.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Noy Loyola , Redemptorist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 8 —Panalangin Para sa Mga Bata</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hayaan Mo Kami, Isang Panaghoy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo hinahayaang mawala kami ng tuturuan ng tula?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo itinutulot ang pagkamatay ng lilinangin naming sumayaw?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo kinakayang wala na kaming sasanaying umawit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Paaano na ang aming bayang mayaman sa kultura’t pakikibaka?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino na ang aming tuturuang tumula?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kung ang alam nilang titik ay pagmumura at pang-aalipusta</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kung ang mga salitang galit at mga pangakong huwad ang kanilang dinadalumat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino pa ang aming tuturuang tumula?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino na ang aming lilinanging sumayaw?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kung ang kanilang buong kalamnan ay manginig</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Natatakot sa pasistang estado at napaparalisa ang buong katawan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino pa ang aming lilinanging sumayaw?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino na ang sasanayin naming umawit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kung tinig ng kanyon, bomba at bala ng military ang kanilang naririnig</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At tugtog ng giyera sa aming bayan ang mayor na kumpas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sino pa ang aming sasanaying umawit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo hinayaang busalan ang bibig ng aming anak?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hindi na namin sila naririnig umiyak at tumawa</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ni kahit makabigkas ng pangarap at pag-asa</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit di Mo kayang muli silang buhayin?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo itinulot dumanak ang kanilang dugo?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hindi na namin sila napaiindak at nakikitang nakikipaglaro</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wala na kaming aawatin at dadampian na mga bisig</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo kayang ipayakap sa amin ang naninigas na katawan?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo kayang marinig ang hikbi kaysa tawanan?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hindi na kami makapag hele sa kanila</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At wala ng sasabay sa amin para awitin ang kundiman ng bayan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bakit Mo kayang pawiin ang saliw ng musika at ihatid kami sa libingan?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hinahayaan Mo kaming ilagay sa aming mga kamay ang lakas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Masdan mo ang bayang diniligin ng dugo at handing magpasya</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ikaw ang aming Pastol sa aming pakikibaka na walang takot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ikaw ang Dios din sa sasama sa paglikha ng mga tula</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ikaw ang Dios din na maikikipagsayaw sa indayog ng pagkilos</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ikaw ang Dios din na magiging HIMIG ng aming pagsulongat pakikibaka.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. King Gaza , CM</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 9 —Prayer to End Impunity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">God of Life and God of Justice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We come together on this day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to lament</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and to rise up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">as a people determined</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to uphold the sanctity of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Open our eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">that we may empathize</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">with the poor and marginalized</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">who suffer under grinding poverty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and endure the hardships</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">of oppression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Open our ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">that we may understand</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">the harrowing realities</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">of harassment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">displacement</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">torture</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and killings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">that have gripped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">so many lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Open our hearts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and fill us with compassion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">so that we may embrace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">those who grieve,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">embolden those willing to struggle for justice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and stand unflinchingly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">as defenders of human rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Give us courage to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">amplify the voices</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">of the downtrodden</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">in their pursuit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">of accountability,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">speaking truth to power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Raise us up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">as one humanity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">that acts in solidarity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to uproot impunity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">on our collective journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">toward freedom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">well-being,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Make this day one that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ignites our passion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and galvanizes our resolve</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to struggle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">for the respect,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">dignity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and liberation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">of the captives and oppressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This we pray to you, GOD OF ALL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Amen.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Becca Lawson, Pilgrims for Peace, Presbyterian &</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Johanna de la Cruz, NCCP</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">December 10 —Peace NOT Tyranny</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A PRAYER FOR PEACE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O Lord, we remember, we remember your Word:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Once upon a time you called all creation to an ecological council</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And said: “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And so you created him; male and female you created them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As matter, body, mind, and spirit you created them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As a microcosm of yourself and the universe, you created them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As social beings and stewards of creation, you created them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And so it is that persons, communities, and creation are linked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One to the other in justice and righteousness and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And so it is that man/women sings with the poet: “I contain multitudes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O Lord, we claim your Word: We are in creation; creation is in us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus by your Word do we claim rights divine and human,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Botanical and zoological, atomic and molecular, natural and supernatural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As it was in the beginning, is now and ever will be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus do we grasp your Word: that when human rights are violated</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All creation is violated. When the integrity of creation is violated,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Human rights are violated. Your Word is violated, dishonored;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Forces of Chaos infiltrate to subvert peace of your desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But it shall not be so, that Chaos reign over the waters and the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Enable us, we pray, to defend your Word and the peace it proclaims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O Lord, we remember your beloved Son, Jesus, our Savior and Brother</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Saying. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you; I do not give</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And do not be afraid.” His peace is your peace, a gift of life to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is not of the exclusivist world of tyrants, exploiters, and oppressors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In big business, big government, big military, big scientistic science –</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who regard peasants as carabaos for the plow, workers as machines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Professionals as servants, nationalist businessmen as moronic capitalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The peace of Jesus, of his Kingdom, is in us, among us, yours O Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">His Kingdom of truth, justice, and peace, a civilization love begun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O Lord, enable us to proclaim your Kingdom and to demand without fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Proofs of justice and care from those in authority over the nation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Respect for human and ecological rights;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Food, jobs, decent social services for all;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Genuine agrarian reform and nationalist industrialization;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Assertion of national sovereignty;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gender and racial equality and religious freedom;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">End to extra-judicial killings; indemnification of victims and their families;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Peace Talk to address the roots of the armed conflict ;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">International solidarity for justice and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Receive our collective pledge, O Lord, to “administer justice every morning.”##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fr. Francisco R. Albano, Diocese of Ilagan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">HEAR CRY, O GOD</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Almighty God, to whom, and to whom alone, we owe our faith, we are saddled today by a tyrant we thought we only find in fairy tales and children’s books. After the euphoria of the 1916 national elections, we are saddened to find a bully emperor with camouflaged clothes, rolled sleeves, and unbuttoned shirt, ostensibly rallying us against corruption in government, addiction to drugs, and criminality, but really furthering one’s ego towards self promotion and silencing of critics. The evils our tyrant points to are abetted by powers and principalities that profit from the maladies of underdevelopment of our people. Genuine development should be the object of government’s passions in conformity with the wishes of our people in their journey towards the peace of your sham. Instead, the people’s platforms for peace are ignored and more military hardware is acquired to silence a suffering populace. Hear our cry O God, and listen to the anguish of our children. Amen.##</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nick Primavera</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Prayer or Hymn Singing : Stand Up for Justice</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(Tune: Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus , Geroge James Webb)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stand up stand up for justice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We people who love Peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Armed conflict will continue</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If roots are not addressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The rains of bombs and weapons</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Attacking farms and people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Destruction, fear and terror</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Does not bring Peace at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stand Up Stand Up for Justice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We people who love Peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The war on drugs must end now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We rise up for the poor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We see them how they suffer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From woes and pain and loss</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The orphans and the widows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Seek justice and true peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stand Up stand up for Justice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We people who love Peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our faith must now remind us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That Truth will be our guide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The mem’ries of fascism</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Repression and suppression</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The martial law is evil</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We say never again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stand Up Stand Up for Justice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We people who love peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The laws of greed and plunder</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Their rule must end and cease</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We pray for all our people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Who suffer unjust war</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We join the pilgrims’ journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To rise against empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We people who love peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We struggle on with courage</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As hope and faith increase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like soaring mighty eagles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our strength will be renewed</span></div>
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Dear Albert Casuga :<br />
How we feel about God can actually impact our mental and physical health, and Christian psychiatrist Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., explains it all in his groundbreaking book, The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life.<br />
In easy-to-understand language, Dr. Jennings explains the connection between theology and brain science, and provides a methodology for overcoming unhealthy perceptions of God.<br />
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<strong>The God-Shaped Brain — A Positive View Of God Can Lead To A Healthier Life</strong><br />
<strong>Chattanooga, TN, September 20, 2017</strong> ― Religious beliefs can affect more than spiritual health. In fact, different views about God can actually lead to mental and physical changes. And when God concepts are distorted in some way, the changes can be profoundly negative.<br />
Psychiatrist, international speaker and author Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., has treated thousands of patients struggling with fear, insecurity and unsatisfying relationships. Many of his patients, he found, had as a contributing factor — if not a primary cause — a distorted God construct.<br />
In his enlightening book, The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life, Dr. Jennings synthesizes theology with brain science to reveal a wealth of facts, including:<br />
• Beliefs and choices actually change brain circuitry and alter gene expression. <br />
• Unhealthy God concepts (such as worshipping a punitive or authoritative God) activate inflammatory pathways and contribute to physical and mental illness.<br />
• Even if unhealthy concepts of God are practiced only in the imagination, it has damaging effects on the brain. <br />
• Changing an unhealthy God concept to a healthy one can positively impact the mind, body and relationships.<br />
Jennings also introduces his Integrated-Evidenced Based Approach to studying God, which intertwines and harmonizes scripture; God's laws in science and nature; and personal experiences. Jennings uses compelling, real-life stories of healing and transformation to demonstrate how a God concept of love can bring about positive changes, and he provides a methodology for separating healthy beliefs from unhealthy.<br />
The brain is an organ that is constantly developing, and in the book, Jennings illustrates in easy-to-follow language how the brain adapts based on the choices a person makes, the beliefs that are held and the God that is worshipped.<br />
Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., is a board-certified Christian psychiatrist, master psychopharmacologist, international speaker, author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Life-Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association.<br />
He obtained his M.D. degree in 1990 from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. He completed his psychiatric residency at D.D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, and has served as the Division Psychiatrist for the 3rd Infantry Division. He is married and lives in Chattanooga where he is in private practice. Jennings is also the President and Founder of Come and Reason Ministries and has served as President of the Southern Psychiatric Association and Tennessee Psychiatric Association.<br />
His other books include Could It Be This Simple? A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind, The Journal of the Watcher, The Remedy New Testament Expanded Paraphrase and the upcoming The God-Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us, due September 2017.<br />
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The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life <br />
InterVarsity Press <br />
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Curt Thompson, M.D., psychiatrist and author of Anatomy of the Soul: "… he takes the reader past the trite, superficial motifs of easy spirituality that clutter our emotional landscapes and grounds you first in the nature of the God of Scripture. He then further explores that in which God grounded the first humans — the body, and namely, the brain. With compelling stories of challenge and transformation, Dr. Jennings deftly weaves together a deeply thoughtful theology of the living Word with the complex nature of the organ that our heart calls home. Read this book to know God more fully. Read this book to know your brain more fully. And see how knowing God will change your brain — and your life — in ways you never thought possible.”<br />
Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D., C.E.D.S., and founder, The Center, Inc.: "With amazing clarity, Dr. Jennings cuts through the many divergent God constructs to expose the powerful impact these differing views have upon our brains and bodies. Not everything taught about God is healthy — read this book and learn how your belief about God is changing you.”<br />
Brad Cole, M.D., director of neuroscience education, Loma Linda University School of Medicine: "What makes this book truly remarkable is the artful way Dr. Jennings combines the latest understanding in brain physiology with practical and compelling real-life stories. Although this book is easy to understand for the layperson, the implications Dr. Jennings makes about the design of the human brain, how it can be damaged and how it can be healed are profound. I don't know of another book that so beautifully describes how our minds can be restored back to the way God originally designed them to be.”<br />
Kay Kuzma, Ed.D., president of Family Matters Ministry: "Dr. Tim Jennings has asked the troublesome questions about God's character and answered them in a simple and compelling way that clears away the lies about him so that you find yourself falling deeper in love with him. It's a must-read for every inquiring mind. Once you understand the physiology of the brain and how it responds to love versus selfishness, as explained by Dr. Jennings, you will realize that the choice for love is the only one that will renew the mind and result in good mental health.”<br />
Michael Lyles, M.D., Lyles and Crawford Clinical Consulting: "It has been said that our thoughts reflect who we are (Proverbs 23:7). Dr. Jennings challenges us with a synthesis of neurobiology and theology that elaborates on this concept.”<br />
Tim Clinton, president, American Association of Christian Counselors: "If you are ready to take your relationship with God to the next level, if you are ready to move closer to the source of all truth, if you are ready for an evidence-based approach to knowing God, this book is for you. Dr. Jennings' patient cases and illustrations make complex ideas simple and easy to understand as he powerfully documents, through brain science, how our beliefs about God change us.”<br />
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Dear Albert Casuga :<br />
I would sincerely appreciate your help getting the word out via your blog or other social media sites on a new book that shows how we can master our emotions to help enhance every aspect of life.<br />
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Whether we realize it or not, everyone engages in emotional drama. And we pay a high price in damage to relationships, health, and careers. As humans, we're equipped with a full spectrum of emotions, and mastering them is the key to both becoming our best selves and leading a great life.<br />
Mark Youngblood is the founder of Inner Mastery, Inc., and his new book, Dear Human, Master Your Emotions, provides the guidance we all need to build healthier relationships with our emotions so that we can view them as assets — as messengers — and act on them in positive ways.<br />
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<strong>Free Yourself From Personal Drama And Transform Your Life With Insights From Dear Human, Master Your Emotions</strong><br />
<strong>Sarasota, FL, September 20, 2017</strong> ― Drama might be entertaining on the big screen, but in real life, it can be destructive. Emotional mastery is essential for everything that matters in life, and author Mark Youngblood explains how to achieve this in his new book, Dear Human, Master Your Emotions (Inspire On Purpose).<br />
Youngblood has spent decades studying what it takes to lead a successful and fulfilling life. One of his greatest lessons has been this: the power to change our world — to make it what we want — exists within each of us. And through these powerful insights, strategies and life skills, the journey can be faster and easier than you ever imagined. Dear Human, Master Your Emotions provides simple, clear explanations and powerful tools for transforming your life.<br />
Readers find powerful insights and perspectives, along with exciting new strategies and life skills, illustrated through fascinating real-life examples. We are born with a robust palette of emotions designed to make our life richer and to serve our best interests; instead, they often seem to make our life more difficult and painful.<br />
The inability to handle negative emotions is at the root of most of the strife and suffering in society. People will do almost anything to avoid negative, painful emotions ― and resort to suppression, destructive interpersonal drama, addiction, compulsions, and ultimately to suicide. Dear Human, Master Your Emotions is a user-friendly guide designed to help readers gain greater understanding and acceptance of their emotions by learning how to take charge of them. Embracing all of these emotions and processing them in a healthy way will not only transform an individual life, it can lead to the betterment of society in general.<br />
"The development of Inner Mastery is a journey to free yourself from the chains of your personal dramas and the suffering they inflict,” Youngblood says. "As you begin your journey, this book will guide you through self-awareness and emotional self-management. It will prepare you with the understanding and skills you will need for continuing your journey of growth.”<br />
Mark Youngblood is a lifelong student, teacher, and facilitator of Inner Mastery. His life purpose is to elevate human consciousness and promote spiritual growth, individually and collectively. He founded his company, Inner Mastery, Inc., more than 20 years ago to promote personal and organizational transformation. His outreach presently includes executive coaching with top management, the Inner Mastery online learning community, Dear Human books, public speaking, and special workshops.<br />
A Master Practitioner and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Youngblood has read, studied, and practiced extensively in the art and science of personal transformation and spiritual growth for nearly two decades. A proud father and stepfather, Youngblood is married to his high school sweetheart after 30 years apart. He loves to travel and is an avid fine art photographer.<br />
For more information, please visit the website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.MyInnerMastery.com&source=gmail&ust=1506211730576000&usg=AFQjCNEOt1tBRFWeBF4rtBsd231Knxdvsw" href="http://www.myinnermastery.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.MyInnerMastery.com</span></a>.<br />
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Dear Human, Master Your Emotions <br />
Inspire On Purpose Publishing<br />
Release date: September 5, 2017<br />
Available at fine booksellers in e-book, audiobook and paperback formats<br />
ISBN: 978-1941782088<br />
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Q&As available on request.<br />
Dylan Ratigan, NY Times Bestselling Author & Former Host of MSNBC's Host Highest Rated Show: "Learning to awaken the ability to reduce reactivity in this hyper-stimulating world is a foundational skill for living that Mark teaches better than anyone I've met.”<br />
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, NY Times Bestselling Author & Dartmouth Tuck Professor: "[Book] is filled with practical insights for understanding the positive role of emotions in your life and harnessing them for your benefit. Youngblood provides innovative strategies for processing your emotions quickly, gently, and easily that are helpful both at work and at home.”<br />
David Emerald, Author of The Power of TED: "Mark Youngblood takes his readers on an enlightened journey of the human experience. Mark's points raise awareness of what it means to live as a Creator and to be at choice, even in the face of the inevitable challenge that comes with the journey.”<br />
Jonah Sachs, Founder of Free Range Studios & Author of Winning the Story Wars:<br />
"Mark's advice is simply presented but profound and life-changing.”<br />
Kristin Horler, Founder & CEO of Baby Boot Camp: "Youngblood brings humor and real world strategies to even the most enlightened and self-aware individual. From new moms to seasoned executives, anyone with a growth mindset can benefit from Mark's guidance.”<br />
Brenda Boone, President & CEO of Human Solutions Inc: "In Dear Human, Master Your Emotions, Mark shares his wisdom and many of his strategies for transforming your life. Read it, follow the guidance, and open the door to a great life!”<br />
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Dear Albert Casuga :<br />
I would appreciate your help getting word out to your audience via your blog and other social media sites on the following exciting new book.<br />
Digging deep into the tragedies and struggles of his family and his own life experiences for inspiration, C. Douglas Gordon, a retired business leader, returned to his passion for the history of religions as evidenced in his debut book, Blood in the Desert. Set in the third century AD, as Christianity struggled to survive, Blood in the Desert is the first in the You Left in Me the Faith series.<br />
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Mary Beth Smith<br />
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<a href="tel:(214)%20725-2823" target="_blank" value="+12147252823"><span style="color: #1155cc;">214.725.2823</span></a> <br />
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<strong>First In A Powerful Series, Story Tells How Christianity Survived Some Of The Most Perilous Times In Its History</strong><br />
<strong>Dallas, TX, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1985797103" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">September 6, 2017</span></span></span></strong> ― Life is raw and cruel for early Christians in 294 AD. A relentless Roman Empire devoted to torturing and killing believers leaves a young woman named Miriam, newly orphaned after the brutal murder of her martyred parents, enslaved to Quintus, a Roman officer. As she grows into womanhood in his household, she endures the shame of bearing his child, a heartache that becomes unbearable when the baby, Philip, is born blind. In a fit of rage, the ruthless Quintus drives mother and child apart, casting them on perilous separate paths.<br />
In this portrait of the enduring supernatural power of love and faith in perilous times, the mysterious wolf Lupa appears, leading Miriam to her new destiny, while her child, young Philip is taken in by nomadic traders. Their dramatic journey through the treacherous devotions of early Christendom illuminates the risks and rewards of faith in the years before the Emperor Constantine found a powerful ally in Yesua and changed the course of history. Until then, all the things modern Christians take for granted - institutions, buildings, meeting spaces and even the gathered texts that make up the New Testament - none of this existed for hundreds of years following the death and resurrection of Christ.<br />
Dallas businessman C. Douglas Gordon has translated his organizational and management skills to the task of bringing detail-oriented research to his novels. Inspired by his older brother's deep faith, Doug honors his memory by exploring the roots of Christianity from its earliest appearances in history and through its years of torment and challenge.<br />
Doug's series, You Left in Me the Faith, seeks to shed light on the formative period that gave birth to the Church as we know it today. Years of effort have produced an exciting first novel, Blood in the Desert. Doug creates fictional characters whose lives interact with and are impacted by real historical events and figures of the day. Readers can't help but be amazed that Christianity survived at all. The second novel in the series, The Twelve Coins, is currently in progress.<br />
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Blood in the Desert<br />
Park Cities Publishing<br />
Original release date: July 2017<br />
Amazon.com release date: July 2017<br />
Available at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.Amazon.com&source=gmail&ust=1504835776863000&usg=AFQjCNHlkqqBoRjnMDrgR8JUTAJb-aF9Wg" href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.Amazon.com</span></a>. <br />
ISBN-10: 0996853839<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0996853835<br />
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At the old haunt—Nick, Pete, Pascua-Sanchez,<br /> Papen, Erwin, Recah, Blanca, Adrian, Cuadra,<br /> Are still shadows on the wall, not unlike catfish<br /> Bobbing up for air as we did, drunken Bravos,<br /> Fighting for breath when carousing left us<br /> Struggling to surface from the depths of dives<br /> Into bottomless pain and puzzlement: why<br /> Did we have to walk out, foglike, into a dawn<br /> Where bright days turned us all into harlequins<br /> Miming what we thought were loud promises<br /> to stay alive like these green dancing ripples <br /> moving my eyes now grafted into Mimi’s Eye.</div>
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<span id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4384" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Jesus the man would learn more lessons in family and social relations that would enable him to teach well, proclaim the Kingdom of God well, and, through healing the sick and feeding the hungry, give signal proofs that the Kingdom has begun and was present in and among the people. Jesus grew in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom – in communicating with people of town and country, in clashes with powers of village and temple, market, and state, in the formation of disciples and apostles, and in processes of struggles of his heart, in the way of the cross. The judgment would be that he did all things well – to open people to the largeness of life, to love of neighbor, and presence of a caring God. To righteousness. To the joy of living: “They have no wine,” was Mama Mary’s subtle suggestion/order at the wedding feast in Cana. And Jesus gave the newly-weds and the guests the best wine served last. Another crucial lesson from Mama Mary.</span></div>
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<span id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4396" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> And so this non-incidental saving event of Jesus meeting the Canaanite/Syrophoenician woman begging him to cure her daughter tormented by a demon. A Jew, a man, faces a Gentile-pagan woman. “Send her away,” the male-chauvinist Jewish disciples urge Jesus. "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel", Jesus tells the lady. But Jesus had already cured a centurion’s servant. Did Jesus compromise? The centurion had faith, Jesus would not enter a pagan home; the servant would be cured from a distance. An exception, not causing any scandal?</span></div>
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<span id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4402" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> The woman, a mother to boot, is of strong will and faith, her humility simply amazing “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David.” So she knows his identity and is aware of his reputation as a holy man of good works. On her knees, she begs: “Lord, help me.” Jesus answers: "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." She is not turned off by his rudeness. Yes, Jesus is rude to this pagan woman. Some exegetes say no! Jesus is not rude. He uses an innocuous metaphor. For “dogs: his term is “kunarion,” household pet, and not the pejorative <i id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4403">“kuon”,</i> despised street dog / <u id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4404">“askal”</u> (cf. Matt 7,6). (Nil Guillemette, SJ). Mildly rude then?</span></div>
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<span id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4416" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Jesus underestimated the lady graced by God with faith and winning humor. Nothing good comes from Gentiles and pagan women? Here she is, a sign and presence of the Kingdom of his word. Jesus learns the value of gender sensitivity and the power of a prayerful woman. He learns that though the house of Israel is of special priority, for now, the Kingdom is for all. He learns something beautiful from this Canaanite-Syrophoenician lady who pleads for wellness not for herself but for another. Jesus advances in wisdom and favor before God and a woman. Whatever trace of gender exclusivism is him disappears. He is a growing presence of God, a Jesus who in the fullness of time and space and righteous relationships will then be recognized as true Man and true God.</span></div>
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<span id="m_-2149328559815956201yiv3049945810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503057356440_4422" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> Is this event saving for me? Where am I in this scene? What word do I hear from Jesus, a man, and a Jew and from a smart pagan lady? Do I say to those who need my loving service: I was sent only to the lost sheep of the Church. Word and sacrament are for Christians only? Do I hold that salvation is only for those who accept Jesus as personal Lord and Savior, is for the well-to-do only whose economic blessings in life they believe are a sign that one is predestined to enjoy divine afterlife? Do I look down on Jews, Muslims, LGBTs and others who are not like me? How do I regard woman -- Canaanite-Syrophoenician, whatever. -- as an object of pleasure, a commodity, a non-citizen of the world, a second class person in the view of the Pharisees and Sadducees and priests and politicians and businessmen and scientists and soldiers of patriarchy and capitalist globalization? Have I ever prayed seemingly foolish in persistence and insistence for a cure for someone sick in body or mind or spirit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga : </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">American companies spend billions of dollars annually on leadership development and training with very little to show for it. Clearly, something's missing.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What's missing, says Gaurav Bhalla, a thinker-doer, is the cultivation of our leaders' most valuable assets: their humanity and the wisdom of their souls.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please allow me to send you a complimentary copy of Bhalla's thought-provoking new book, Awakening A Leader's Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems, in consideration of a review, interview or feature.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Simply contact me to schedule an interview with the author, or let me know if I may send a review copy of the book. If you would like to run this story I'd be happy to send you JPEGs of Bhalla and the book cover. Thank you.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To view his video series, please visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ascotmedianews.com/em/lt.php?c%3D12044%26m%3D14059%26nl%3D33%26s%3D2a62614a14e4ab555025ce4e66a03d75%26lid%3D193937%26l%3D-http--tinyurl.com/9j44kxd&source=gmail&ust=1502324763718000&usg=AFQjCNHrOGf9bA7VCUYDnwPXzCjaKZH8bA" href="http://ascotmedianews.com/em/lt.php?c=12044&m=14059&nl=33&s=2a62614a14e4ab555025ce4e66a03d75&lid=193937&l=-http--tinyurl.com/9j44kxd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://tinyurl.com/9j44kxd</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kate Marlowe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ascotmedia.com&source=gmail&ust=1502324763718000&usg=AFQjCNFRfcniRFEjB83BJCi-9ZBN6Q3obQ" href="http://www.ascotmedia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.ascotmedia.com</span></a><br /><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This press release may be reprinted in part or entirety by any print or broadcast media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing.)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Book Uses Immortal Poems To Help Leaders Embark On A Journey Of Reflection And Self-Awareness</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Washington, D.C., <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_505279427" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">August 8, 2017</span></span></span></strong> ― Leadership roles rarely come with playbooks, even less so in today's complex and uncertain world. When confronted with 21st-century challenges, quandaries, dilemmas and paradoxes — which often require choices between right vs. right or wrong vs. more wrong — where do leaders turn for guidance?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not to the brilliance of their executive minds or to best-practice recipes taught by traditional leadership training courses, but to the rootedness of their humanity — who they are, what they stand for, what they are willing to fight for and what they are willing to walk away from.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What matters most is not what's in leaders' heads, but what lies within their souls that guides what's in their heads, says Gaurav Bhalla, author, educator and CEO of Knowledge Kinetics.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bhalla's new book, Awakening A Leader's Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems, is about "Soulful Leadership,” a new human-centric narrative that reimagines the purpose of leadership. It takes current and future leaders on a transformative journey of reflection and self-awareness to help them better understand their own humanity and that of the worlds in which they live through a new set of teachers — immortal poems.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Using the timeless wisdom of Shakespeare, Whitman, Dickinson and many others, the book showcases critical leadership lessons, such as the perils of an over-inflated ego; the importance of authenticity, trust and integrity; the significance of perseverance; and the value of doubting – of not being too sure – all vital for imagining and engineering meaningful leadership journeys in the 21st century.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Through poems and essays, the book creates an inner awakening concerning an important issue – all leadership decisions ultimately require sacrificing something or someone, including planetary resources. Managing these sacrifices in a way that increases the wellbeing and prosperity of the greatest many is visionary. It's also the hallmark of Soulful Leadership, which today's world greatly needs.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Author Gaurav Bhalla holds a Ph.D. in marketing and strategy from the University of Kansas and is a globally acclaimed educator, speaker and consultant. CEO of Knowledge Kinetics, he and his company are committed to helping organizations develop visionary leaders and practice customer-first thinking.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He is also the author of Collaboration and Co-Creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation (2010), the much-acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, "Rethinking Marketing,” and a historical-fiction novel, The Curse and the Cup (2014).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bhalla asserts that "The head may be smart, but the soul is smarter…and… wise,” and works every day to advance his core philosophy that a person's humanity is a more enduring asset than his or her executive brilliance.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For more information, please visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ascotmedianews.com/em/lt.php?c%3D12044%26m%3D14059%26nl%3D33%26s%3D2a62614a14e4ab555025ce4e66a03d75%26lid%3D193938%26l%3D-http--www.soulfulleadership.world/&source=gmail&ust=1502324763719000&usg=AFQjCNFEMkOi_wOR2MotXFKlwam_RnecOw" href="http://ascotmedianews.com/em/lt.php?c=12044&m=14059&nl=33&s=2a62614a14e4ab555025ce4e66a03d75&lid=193938&l=-http--www.soulfulleadership.world/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.soulfulleadership.world/</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Awakening A Leader's Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">(Voices from Three Generations)</span></i><br /><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">We will see so/ little of the world that it is/ important for you to see this/ tree, to envision rooms and/ stairs where there is only air/ and leaves, to place the first/ board against the bark. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">--- From<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “Treehouse for God” </i>by </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Hannah Stephenson<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, The Storialist, </i>10-25-11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Come summer, we will build </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">overlooking the creek, there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is more of you now to gather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">remnants we can put together.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nothing bigger, but higher,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">maybe closer to the clouds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nearer to the stars, away from</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We will see less of the world.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Or more of it below: yelping</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tree astride our river bank,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">are easy slingshot targets off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stouter, steadier branches.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">O, and there is soldier-boy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">doing it with the wife round</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the clock since he came back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wounded from Iraq, Libya,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and all on the eastern crack.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shush, buddyboy, that’s not</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">what treehouses are for.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> What</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">are they for, gramps? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To espy</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on sparrows, robins, jays, owls</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So, if we build it a bit higher,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we can also build a treehouse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for God, can we not, gramps?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why ever for, laddie? He is</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">everywhere. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But nowhere near?</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cool</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. A treehouse for God on</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">just maybe, we can visit him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">anytime, gramps, ask for help</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for starving kids in Somalia.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hook him up on a telephone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">line, strings and cans and all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and maybe Dad can provide </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Him with a Bell Internet link,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">alert Him on the Facebook!</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So he can stop all killings and all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and punish priests who molest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">altar boys and girls, and...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whoa!</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whoa, boys, we are building a</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">treehouse, not His jailhouse.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Could we build one for God,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">anyway, gramps? We got boards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and plywood and shingles and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nails, and...borrow mom’s cross,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to protect Him in His treehouse.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Winter is almost here, boys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we need to firm things up here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so it would not fall off. We will</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on that oak bent over the creek.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(He wipes clammy sweat off his</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">forehead, winces at a strange jab</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">his arms.) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time to climb down, </i></span></div>
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MY THREE POEMS ON FINDING MEANING IN MEANINGS. What is the meaning of life? These are poems as answers to the Big Questions. This post was prompted by Brain Pickings link on Leo Tolstoy's "Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World." It was likewise prompted by an Albert Camus post on the meaning of a life worth living as a moral obligation to find happiness. (See my Timeline on Brain Pickings a year ago below.) --- Painting of the suckling mother by UK artist par excellence <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=575745395&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/janet.w.reed.3?fref=mentions">Janet Weight Reed</a>.<br />
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WHAT IS IT (Life) ALL FOR?<br />
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1. IN SEARCH OF MEANINGS<br />
Missing the many splendored thing<br />
is one way of looking at this search.<br />
How really far out there do we need<br />
to fly, or espy for the god particle we <br />
seemed to have lost in the process? <br />
Why look behind the stars or in them? <br />
Did we not lose our angels coming off <br />
the crib or the direst cranny for shelter? <br />
They do not grow with us, nor guide us. <br />
Absconding, they quietly creep away. <br />
Courage and devilment open our eyes<br />
to what stories we could live with or by, <br />
or what places to board up or occupy. <br />
Orphans at birth, we are alone at death. <br />
What we mean here is what we make. <br />
The womb is a meaning we cannot do <br />
without: our final breath is a call: <br />
Mother, hold me. Our first cry is a call: <br />
Mother, love me. And then we grow old <br />
shaping up all excess purposes and ends. <br />
The tomb is yet another meaning we <br />
scarcely begin to understand before it <br />
pulls us to its urgent demand: living <br />
to die trying to live while dying is easy <br />
may yet be the meaning we struggle for. <br />
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---ALBERT B. CASUGA<br />
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Here's a poetic response to the Big Question: Why is There Something and Not Nothing? (The Strange Ways of Being)*<br />
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2. MEANING AS AXIOM<br />
If another twig falls in the night,<br />
as silently as it grew as a sapling<br />
toward the sky, would that mean<br />
anything anyway to anyone?<br />
The graveyard of a fallen tree<br />
may tell untold stories that stay<br />
untold until a struggling stray root<br />
breaks through dry rot and ground<br />
for yet another flushed cherry tree.<br />
The inexorable is also axiom here:<br />
life begins in death in a spun gyre<br />
twirling into flowers, forever moving.<br />
Nothing is everything here, but there<br />
where leaves had once fallen, broken<br />
twigs spring back as fluttering birds<br />
twittering on branches like new leaves.<br />
—ALBERT B. CASUGA<br />
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*Simon Blackburn, The Big Questions: Philosophy, Quercus Publishing Plc, London, UK, 2009.<br />
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3. WHAT MEANING MEANS<br />
Giving up on giving up is a better choice,<br />
when being sensible and clear are futile.<br />
Words would lose meaning, ours will not. <br />
Where you see a vine leading its tendrils<br />
up to a broken branch shedding a last leaf,<br />
you make me see its undulant plummet <br />
to the parched pond mottled by blackened<br />
and brittle leaves long dead even before<br />
the end of this long hot summer. It is real. <br />
Is this not our faultless way of knowing<br />
what we pretend to know when we can<br />
no longer see the dancer from the dance? <br />
Would not the falling of that lonely leaf <br />
trace the slower climb of a clinging vine?<br />
Like seeing both sides of the wall at once. <br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When it involves poverty, the outpouring of generosity from the developed nations of the world is awe-inspiring. In the past five to six decades, more than $1 trillion has been donated to the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa with little to no improvement, despite the overwhelming advantage these nations have in possession of natural resources. Hence, according to retired Maryland neurosurgeon Dr. Sylvanus A. Ayeni, it is obvious that no amount of foreign aid will alleviate the grinding poverty in these nations unless there is a major reversal of the widespread leadership failure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In his new book, Rescue Thyself: Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within, Dr. Ayeni outlines exactly what needs to be done to help make the people in these nations self-sufficient.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I would like to send a copy of Rescue Thyself in consideration of an interview or review from you. Please read the press release below and let me know if I may schedule an informative interview with Dr. Ayeni. If you would prefer to run this story, I would be happy to send you JPEGs of the author and the book cover. Thank you.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Why Is Sub-Saharan Africa Still The Poorest Region In The World Despite Its Abundant Natural Resources And Generous Foreign Aid?</span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Bethesda, MD, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1761396627" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">July 26, 2017</span></span></span></strong> ― Why has foreign aid failed to alleviate poverty and promote development and economic growth in Africa? If an influx of more than $1 trillion in aid over five to six decades hasn't solved the problem then it's obvious nothing will help unless there is significant improvement in the performance of the leadership, says Dr. Sylvanus Ayeni – retired neurosurgeon and founder of the non-profit organization Pan Africa Children Advocacy Watch. His new book, Rescue Thyself: Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within, is an in-depth, bold and holistic examination of this region. The discussion about the profound deficits in virtually all areas of human development in these nations engages several audiences including government policy makers in the West and in Asia, the foreign aid community and Africans in the continent and the Diaspora.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The author strongly suggests that there should be significant rethinking of the open-ended "giving” approach of many of the donors, including the rich and developed nations of the world. Sure, the donors are very passionate about alleviating the suffering of the populations in these nations. However, they should demand more accountability, transparency, honest governance and true commitment to the rule of law from the leaders of these nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The most formidable barriers to progress and development in many of the nations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are Sub-Saharan African leaders who have presided over the decimation of the subcontinent. Some of these nations certainly need help. But first, they must start helping themselves. Several possible solutions are proposed, all anchored on a new type of leadership, quality education, superb infrastructure, respect for the rule of law, and a different strategy by the donors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The murderous activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria, Niger and Chad, including the abduction of hundreds of female students in North Eastern Nigeria and the 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa have been well publicized. Recently, the UN says it needs $1.4 billion to help refugees escaping conflict and famine in South Sudan. The country has been embroiled in a catastrophic civil war since 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his deputy, Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Now, nearly 2 million South Sudanese are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. These are three examples of the disasters that plagued and continue to inflict pain and suffering on the people in SSA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These situations, plus the destitution in many of the other nations of SSA, all make it imperative that a blunt, deep analysis and discussion of the failure of these nations should take place. While the agony in most of these nations affects the majority of the population, the children, the youth, and the elderly have been particularly impacted. <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book is a comprehensive and rather provocative examination of the calamitous state of most of the nations of SSA; written by someone born in Africa, and educated there from primary school to medical school. He has also been involved in development issues in the sub-continent for many years, mainly in the education and healthcare sectors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No amount of foreign aid to these poor-performing nations will reverse the poverty in the region unless there is significant improvement in the performance of the leadership. The case is also made that Sub-Saharan Africans have been bequeathed with all the tools needed, i.e., human and natural resources, to develop their nations. Thus, they need not continue the culture of dependency on the rest of the human race.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Available at online outlets including <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://amazon.com&source=gmail&ust=1501192734242000&usg=AFQjCNHq37-UJH8E5m2tRHJUkxLG3jt8xg" href="http://amazon.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">amazon.com</span></a>, BarnesandNoble.com, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://rowman.com&source=gmail&ust=1501192734243000&usg=AFQjCNHlRPXA-ykSQG07P1P6JI-IKF7M7Q" href="http://rowman.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">rowman.com</span></a> and some bookstores.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">RescueThyself: Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Dr. Sylvanus Ayeni</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Publisher: Hamilton Books</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Language: English </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">April 2017</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-10: 0761868917</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-13: 978-0761868910</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ken B. Godevenos, President, Accord Resolutions Services, Canada: "[Dr. Ayeni] has for years been involved in the education of children in Africa as well as in attempts to improve Africa's healthcare sector. If anyone knows about the ins and outs of Africa's decades old problem of little to no progress, it's Dr. Ayeni. He delivers his message with incredible doses of passion, love, logic, and statistics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His quotes from many sources are appropriate and well placed. And many of his own are also worthy of being cited elsewhere. One memorable one for me, when he debunked any excuse Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) might have as to why it is still in trouble was "Except in the Garden of Eden, no society started out rich.” Another one is: "The color of the skin does not determine the quality of the output of the human brain.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He goes where others have feared to tread and this is to ask the question, "Is democracy the appropriate form of government for the nations of SSA?” But the bottom line of the good doctor's message is this: it is time for the foreign-aid community to rethink its strategy… In his last chapter as well as his epilogue, the author gives some very practical suggestions as to what can be done now. And he also warns us of what may well happen if these things are not done. Scary. This is a must read for anyone working with NGO's in Africa. It's also a must read for pastors and mission leaders, and of course the individual who cares about helping his or her less fortunate brothers and sisters in the world. Well done, doctor.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">More than 40 years ago, two naval aviators endured unspeakable pain as POWs in Vietnam. One soldier buried his demons and built a successful career in law enforcement. But the other followed his demons down a dark path toward the ultimate revenge.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In The Oath, author Dennis Koller expertly weaves the gripping stories of two former POWs with a modern-day murder investigation to create a mystery-thriller with enough twists and turns to keep readers guessing until the end.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please allow me to send you a complimentary copy (or pdf) of The Oath in consideration of a review, interview or feature.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dennis Koller makes a dynamic guest. Please contact me to schedule an interview, or let me know if I may send a review copy of the book. If you would like to run this story I'd be happy to send you a JPEG of Koller and the book cover. Thank you.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sarah Carter</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pen Books</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">117 Southwind Drive</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pleasant Hill, CA 94523</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="tel:(310)%20413-4691" target="_blank" value="+13104134691"><span style="color: #1155cc;">310/413-4691</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="tel:(925)%20586-2012" target="_blank" value="+19255862012"><span style="color: #1155cc;">925/586-2012</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222;">sarah@penbooks.biz</span></a><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This press release may be reprinted in part or entirety by any print or broadcast media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing)<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Oath — The Desire For Revenge Never Dies</span><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Pleasant Hill, CA, July 17, 2017</strong> ― A lifetime ago, two young naval aviators took an oath to "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Both were shot down over North Vietnam and endured years of brutal torture in the same prisoner-of-war camp.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now, one is a San Francisco homicide inspector, with his allegiance firmly anchored in the law. The other remains steadfastly allegiant to the oath and is systematically eliminating Americans who had visited North Vietnam to aid the enemy's cause — Americans he views as domestic enemies. The lives of these two former POWs are about to intersect again, and the consequences will be explosive.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In The Oath, author Dennis Koller creates a gripping, stay-up-all-night mystery-thriller that expertly intertwines the compelling stories of two former POWs with a modern-day murder investigation.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book opens with the cold-blooded murder of a famous San Francisco newspaper columnist. Homicide Inspector Tom McGuire is called to investigate a scene that's unlike any he's seen before. The victim was shot in the head — execution style — and her arms were bound behind her, the rope knotted tightly from shoulder to wrist.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Awash in an eerie chill of recognition, McGuire is transported back in time to the infamous Hanoi Hilton where as a POW he endured rope torture many times, his arms tied in exactly the same fashion.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The medical examiner — already on the scene — explains that the victim was shot and killed before she was tied up. The killer, it seems, is leaving a calling card that only a select and unfortunate few would recognize.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the killer's identity slowly comes into focus, McGuire is forced to face his own demons and reluctantly pursue a brother-in-arms. Will McGuire remain allegiant to the law or to the oath he shares with the killer?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Born and raised in San Francisco, author Dennis Koller was the Executive Director of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, a World War II Liberty ship berthed at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2013, Koller figuratively "jumped ship” to write his first mystery-thriller, Kissed By The Snow, about a secret FBI drug taskforce that devises a plan to finally win America's war on drugs. The book placed fourth in the Ink & Insights national writing contest.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He is also the author of The Custer Conspiracy, published in October 2016, which was named a 2017 Distinguished Favorite in the thriller category by Independent Press Award.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Oath, released in May 2016, won the 2016 Bay Area Independent Publishers Association Book Award for Best Fiction and the 2017 Independent Press Award for Military Fiction.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Koller is a member of the Naval Order of the United States, the Navy League of the United States, the Military Writers Society of America, the California Writers Club, the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association and is on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Bethlehem Shipyard Museum. Koller holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a graduate degree in business administration, both from Saint Mary's College of California. He lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Oath</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pen Books </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-10: 0692656731 </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-13: 978-0692656730</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Available at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.Amazon.com&source=gmail&ust=1500500741595000&usg=AFQjCNES5DayGb8LhpIyfW7PJv4cLh66aw" href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.Amazon.com</span></a> and all book stores upon request. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Autographed copies are available at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.penbooks.biz&source=gmail&ust=1500500741595000&usg=AFQjCNEB1iBPn9jHOsaB1p_sJSWSgiVQeA" href="http://www.penbooks.biz/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.penbooks.biz</span></a>.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">###<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">TIP SHEET:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q & As available on request.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Irish Herald Book Review:</strong><em> "Dennis Koller's mystery-thriller debut is a strong one. The novel has it all: intrigue, politics, murder and romance. Combined with characters and dialogue that are ultimately believable, The Oath is a real page-turner.”</em><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Military Writers Society of America Review:</strong> <em>"An intriguing plot and artful writing make Dennis Koller's The Oath an entertaining read. Readers will appreciate the author's ability to bring a scene and its characters to life with just enough detail to make it all pop, without becoming bogged down in over-descriptive narratives. Adventure and thriller fans' appetite for a rush will be well satiated with the twists and turns throughout this book. Koller displays an innate understanding of the plight of Vietnam POWs as well as the intricacies of police work. He weaves these experiences together to create a plausible and compelling picture of the immense struggles attached to both. That the homicide investigator survived the same prison camp as the killer he now seeks creates a clear conflict — as he must choose between his allegiance to the law and the oath he and the killer once took. The tension builds as readers are drawn into both Tom McGuire's character and the man he reluctantly hunts. The Oath's suspense pulls its readers through each page with a force of its own.”</em><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Mike Billington, author and Army veteran who spent two tours in Vietnam (awarded Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman's Badge):</strong><em> "A dying former POW, four dead women, a world-weary homicide cop and the Vietnam War are expertly woven together in a masterful piece of storytelling that will leave you guessing right until the last few pages of The Oath. This is an excellent book with just the right amount of social commentary woven into its pages to make it not just another murder mystery.”</em><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Capt. Kris Carlock, USN (retired):</strong> <em>"This is the book today's sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen want to take on their long deployments for those short moments they can get away and unload their minds on an entertaining novel. It's a good read that might be hard to put down when you have to go on watch or patrol, but in the end, after the twisty-turny story and after the good guys and the bad guys duke it out, there's the great military lesson. The oath that we all took to 'support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic' is repeated over and over in this novel, reminding us, and perhaps all of society, of our military's responsibility and why we are such a great country. Great book!”</em><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Seventy years ago, UFOs began buzzing Roswell Army Air Force Base in New Mexico. Since then, the subject has remained taboo, despite millions of sightings – including tens of thousands of eyewitness to the Phoenix Lights.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Now, a new documentary and book: Unacknowledged. </strong> An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret by Dr. Steven M. Greer, and a fictional thriller, Undisclosed, by NY Times best-selling author Steve Alten (the editor and co-author of Unacknowledged), are exposing 70 years of lies.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please read the following press release and let me know if I may schedule an interview with Steve Alten, who wrote Undisclosed and edited Unacknowledged. If you would like to run this story we'd be happy to send you JPEGs of Steve and the two book covers. Steve is well-versed about the secrets revealed in both books and his guest appearances have been leaving hosts and listeners wanting more. Thank you.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please see YouTube link with Steve Alten at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://youtu.be/KpEZqU9pWbA&source=gmail&ust=1500500604772000&usg=AFQjCNETeDS5PgEIgEAB2H4raUyRoFA9BQ" href="https://youtu.be/KpEZqU9pWbA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://youtu.be/KpEZqU9pWbA</span></a> <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Danielle Malcolm</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ascot Media Group, Inc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Post Office Box 2394</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friendswood, TX 77549</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(281) 333-3507 Phone</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="tel:(832)%20569-5539" target="_blank" value="+18325695539"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(832) 569-5539</span></a> Fax </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222;">news@ascotmedianews.com</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ascotmedia.com&source=gmail&ust=1500500604772000&usg=AFQjCNG7AzohsprcBj9VCWQHkSSSDHuJNg" href="http://www.ascotmedia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.ascotmedia.com</span></a><br /><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This press release may be reprinted in part or entirety by any print or broadcast media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing)<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two New Books Expose The Shocking Truth Behind UFOs, Extraterrestrials, Roswell And Zero-Point-Energy</span><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Washington, DC, July 17, 2017</strong> ― Seventy years after the cover-up of three interstellar craft downed over Roswell Army Air Force Base in New Mexico, two new books and a documentary reveal the shocking truth about covert programs and why the UFO subject remains taboo... even up to the President and Congress!<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"It's not about whether these interstellar craft are real,” states Dr. Steven M. Greer, considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on the subject. The author of Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret (book), and the executive producer of a new documentary by the same name, has collected testimonials from hundreds of eyewitnesses in the military, Intel agencies, the FAA, NASA, and private defense contractors that expose 70 years of lies. "This is about USAPs ,” Dr. Greer explains. "Unacknowledged Special Access Projects operating illegally outside of Presidential or Congressional oversight, covertly funded over decades by trillions of our tax dollars. What really keeps the subject taboo and outside of the mainstream media are the energy technologies we acquired from these downed vessels – specifically zero-point-energy which would replace fossil fuels. We're talking about a free, clean energy source that would end hunger and poverty, reverse Climate Change, and create millions of new jobs.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the editor of Unacknowledged, New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten was given access to these testimonials and used the information to pen his just-released fictional thriller, Undisclosed, in an attempt to disseminate the truth to the public in digestible bites. "Jimmy Kimmel had President Clinton and President Obama on his talk show and asked both men about UFOs, ETs, and Area 51. They both smiled and poked fun at the subject. But Dr. Greer, the expert who submitted briefings to both administrations as well as members of congress, the CIA Director and the Joint Chiefs, will probably never be allowed on Kimmel or any major talk show to discuss this – not because Jimmy Kimmel wouldn't love to interview him, but because the Intel Agencies refuse to allow it on mainstream media.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Greer adds, "Unacknowledged was either the #1 documentary or close to #1 on itunes nearly every week since its release, and it's never mentioned. I flew out to Los Angeles and did a two-hour interview with an entertainment reporter at Breitbart News, only to have the Intel Agency that determines what's allowed to be published cancel it.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steve Alten agrees. "There's information in both Unacknowledged and Undisclosed that pulls back the curtain on seventy years of lies, including testimonials from people who have worked in black ops subterranean bases which hold ARVs (Alien Reproduction Vehicles) capable of interstellar travel. Many of these witnesses who held above-top secret clearances would not allow Dr. Greer to publish this information until after they passed on, out of fear. Who could blame them?”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Just how untouchable is the UFO-ET subject?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I spoke to people very close to Alex Jones,” Dr. Greer said. "I was told the subject was 'too controversial to touch.' This from the guy who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was fake!”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please watch the trailer at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DZNVjTWzLDiA&source=gmail&ust=1500500604772000&usg=AFQjCNFUTvgm6u8_85LSnFCdbpxp0YGvCg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVjTWzLDiA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?</span><wbr></wbr>v=ZNVjTWzLDiA</a><span style="color: #555555;"> <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">Available at all online outlets </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">Undisclosed</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">By Steve Alten</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">Publisher: A and M Publishing LLC </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">June 2017</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">ISBN-10: 1943957053</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">ISBN-13: 978-1943957057<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">###<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">TIP SHEET:<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">Q&As available on request.</span><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-18700823182368641912017-06-21T18:11:00.000-07:002017-06-21T18:11:15.790-07:00AND INTO THE FIRE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The world today is a very scary place. With nuclear weapons being built and tested by nations that should never possess them, having a nuke set off in a major US city has become everyone's worst nightmare!<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Gleason is a nationally recognized expert on nuclear terrorism, author, repeat guest on major TV and radio shows around the nation, and star/host of the History Channel's 2-hour special on this subject. His latest book And Into the Fire ― depicting in great detail how our enemies would be able to accomplish a nuclear attack on America ― has been hailed by Byron Dorgan, former US Senator and New York Times bestselling author of Gridlock, as a book that "should be required reading for all Members of Congress.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I would like to forward a copy of And Into the Fire in consideration of an interview or review from you. Please read the following press release and let me know if I may schedule an interview or forward a review copy of the book. If you would like to run this story we'd be happy to send you jpegs of the author and the book cover. Thank you.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monica Foster</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Senior Publicist</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ascot Media Group, Inc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Post Office Box 2394</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friendswood, TX 77549</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Direct: <a href="tel:(713)%20446-8815" target="_blank" value="+17134468815"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(713) 446-8815</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Phone: <a href="tel:(281)%20333-3507" target="_blank" value="+12813333507"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(281) 333-3507</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fax: <a href="tel:(832)%20569-5539" target="_blank" value="+18325695539"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(832) 569-5539</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222;">mfoster@ascotmediagroup.com</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ascotmedia.com&source=gmail&ust=1498180024963000&usg=AFQjCNHvihanRs8GDAPHMuTaFClJhKMPNg" href="http://www.ascotmedia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.ascotmedia.com</span></a><br /><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This press release may be reprinted in part or entirety by any print or broadcast media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing)<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And Into The Fire Accurately Depicts The Horror And Chaos Of A Devastated America After A Nuclear Terrorist Attack</span><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>New York, NY, June 21, 2017</strong> ― For most Americans, their greatest nightmare is of someone setting off a nuclear weapon in one of our major cities. Two possible scenarios that come to mind are setting off a nuke near Washington's Capitol building during a State of the Union address, or melting down a nuclear power plant ― like Indian Point, a mere 35 miles from New York City ― creating such terror and chaos that 9/11 would pale in comparison. Critics agree that nationally recognized nuclear terrorism expert Robert Gleason's latest book, And Into the Fire, describes these terrifying scenarios in more factual detail than any other book they have read.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Gleason, bestselling author of End of Days and The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad, has starred in and hosted a History Channel two-hour special on this very subject and the various scenarios that could take place. <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He has been a featured guest discussing nuclear terrorism on national TV and radio shows such as Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, George Noory's "Coast to Coast AM”, and NPR, along with many others, and spoken numerous times on this subject at Harvard.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gleason's latest book dramatizes in great detail how terrorists could steal bomb-grade highly enriched uranium from a country such as Pakistan and smuggle it into the US. Once in possession of the fissile nuclear bomb-fuel, cobbling together crude would be an amazingly simple procedure. As Luis Alvarez, the physicist who designed the Hiroshima bomb wrote, "a high school student could build the Hiroshima bomb if he had the bomb-fuel.” Gleason then shows how terrorists can use such crudely built but highly powerful Hiroshima-type bombs to incinerate any major US city.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advance reviews on And Into the Fire all agree that it is not only a hair-raising thriller, it is arguably the most knowledgeable nuclear terrorism novel of our time. Byron Dorgan, former US Senator and New York Times bestselling author of Gridlock, has written: "Gleason writes with undeniable authority on the threat of nuclear terrorism… And Into the Fire, is an eye-opening, hair-raising, up-all-night thriller that should be required reading for all Members of Congress."<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With nearly 30 years experience researching the threat of nuclear terrorism and the possibility of nuclear annihilation, Robert Gleason can address topics on national security, foreign policy, current events, politics and what needs to be done to defend our cities and nuclear power plants. Following are suggested questions that could be addressed in an interview:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Are nuclear terrorists wreaking havoc in the world today?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Is nuclear terrorism feasible and realistic?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Is it true Japan's new nuclear program is exacerbating the nuclear terrorist threat? And does their nuclear power debacle teach us anything?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Is Russia's annexation of Ukrainian Crimea exacerbating the nuclear terrorist threat?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Is a multi-city nuclear attack on America its worst-case scenario?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Is nuclear power a nuclear proliferation threat?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• The time is fast approaching when any rogue state that wants nukes will be able to get them. What strategy should the US adopt in a world where it is threatened by anonymous nuclear terrorist attacks?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Can nuclear terrorism lead to Armageddon?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Does the Bible predict a nuclear Armageddon?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Which nation is most likely to sponsor nuclear terrorist strikes?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Why would nuclear terrorists want to strike the US?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Why Does the Bible think the world will end?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Robert Gleason is a highly regarded expert on nuclear terrorism. He's spoken on the topic at Harvard four times, and on Sean Hannity's and Lou Dobbs's TV shows, PBS, NPR, George Noory's "Coast to Coast AM”, and many other radio & television programs. He also hosted and starred in a two-hour History Channel special largely devoted to the subject. He is the author of The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad, as well as the critically acclaimed End of Days. Gleason lives in New York City, and you can learn more about him and his books at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://robertgleasonbooks.com/&source=gmail&ust=1498180024963000&usg=AFQjCNEdqvInaIIx0OxGfMcM5aPTIgm62Q" href="http://robertgleasonbooks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://robertgleasonbooks.com/</span></a><wbr></wbr>.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And Into the Fire</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Forge Books</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Available June 6th in print and ebook online and at your favorite bookseller</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 978-0765379160<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">###<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">TIP SHEET:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">William S. Cohen, Former Secretary of Defense, US Senator and New York Times bestselling author of Collision: "His research is devastatingly detailed and shockingly realistic. We should be scared, all of us--very scared.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters (US Army retired) three-time Boyd Award-winner, Fox News military analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Damned of Petersburg: "Not only the most terrifying, but also the most realistic nuclear-terror scenario I have encountered, whether on the page or in the Pentagon. Robert Gleason's decades of deep research into the dark realms of nuclear energy and weapons have yielded a superb thriller. It's a gripping read--and a primer on nuclear terrorism.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard Marcinko, New York Times Bestselling author of Rogue Warrior and founding father of SEAL Team SIX: "The book's nuclear terrorism scenarios are not only possible they are probable. Robert Gleason enhances the realism with technocrat language and verifiable research.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The 14th Colony: "Gleason's book is steeped in pure fact. And that's what makes this book so scary. It actually could happen.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth: "And Into the Fire is "frighteningly authentic . . . Don't miss this cautionary and important tale of where the world is headed.”<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Booklist (starred review): "Gleason is a bona fide expert on nuclear terrorism, and he utilizes his knowledge, along with his storytelling skills, to deliver a thriller that feels shockingly authentic. Military-action fans will relish this one as they shudder at its implications.”<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-55712691394255936032017-06-13T18:09:00.001-07:002017-06-13T18:09:30.993-07:00PRESS RELEASE: The God Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Albert Casuga:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We would greatly appreciate your help getting word out to your audience via your blog or other social media sites on a highly anticipated, soon-to-be-released book.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christian psychiatrist, international speaker and author Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., recently brought us the thought-provoking, widely successful book, The God-Shaped Brain. He now takes us even further into the realm of God constructs with the equally provocative, The God-Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For more information, please read the following release. Thank you.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monica Foster</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Senior Publicist</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ascot Media Group, Inc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Post Office Box 2394</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friendswood, TX 77549</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Direct: <a href="tel:(713)%20446-8815" target="_blank" value="+17134468815"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(713) 446-8815</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Phone: <a href="tel:(281)%20333-3507" target="_blank" value="+12813333507"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(281) 333-3507</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fax: <a href="tel:(832)%20569-5539" target="_blank" value="+18325695539"><span style="color: #1155cc;">(832) 569-5539</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222;">mfoster@ascotmediagroup.com</span></a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ascotmedia.com&source=gmail&ust=1497488753566000&usg=AFQjCNH-KD6ITPIc0waAKv9_SejSNcr_AA" href="http://www.ascotmedia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.ascotmedia.com</span></a><br /><span style="color: #1155cc;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This press release may be reprinted or posted to social media either in part, or in its entirety)<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The God-Shaped Heart — Book Helps Christians Connect With God's Transformative Love And Truth</span><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Chattanooga, TN, June 13, 2017</strong> ― Love is power — the power to live, the power to heal and the power to be free. What happens, however, when distorted beliefs or unhealthy God concepts take root in the heart and obstruct this love?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christian psychiatrist, international speaker and author Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., explores the healing power of love, exposes beliefs that obstruct love and identifies eternal truths that open the heart to God's love in his newest book, The God-Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this compelling follow-up to The God-Shaped Brain, Dr. Jennings takes an evidence-based approach to exposing an infection of thought that keeps millions of Christians trapped in fear and insecurity. He also documents seven stages of spiritual development that can lead people out of this trap and back to God's love.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In The God-Shaped Heart, Jennings compellingly reveals:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Genuine Christianity is centered on love, and such love, when practiced, transforms hearts and heals minds. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• An infection of thought deeply rooted within Christianity is causing confusion, contributing to division and preventing millions from experiencing the transformative power of God's love.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• When human-imposed law replaces design law, injury, pain and damage occurs to hearts, minds and relationships. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• A scientifically and Biblically sound understanding on homosexuality that resolves the long hostility between Christians and homosexuals. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">• While there is something wrong in Christianity today, there is a remedy freely available that brings healing and transformation.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jennings provides insights that make God's love understandable, applicable and accessible for all audiences, including those who struggle with Christianity or struggle to harmonize Christianity and science; Christians who have become frustrated with Christianity; and those who view Christianity as negative and critical.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The God-Shaped Heart was written to help Christians everywhere advance ever closer to God's ideal through experiencing the transformative power of God's love.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., is a board-certified Christian psychiatrist, master psychopharmacologist, international speaker, author, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Life-Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He obtained his M.D. degree in 1990 from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. He completed his psychiatric residency at D.D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, and has served as the Division Psychiatrist for the 3rd Infantry Division. He is married and lives in Chattanooga where he is in private practice. Jennings is also the President and Founder of Come and Reason Ministries and has served as President of the Southern Psychiatric Association and Tennessee Psychiatric Association.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His other books include Could It Be This Simple? A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind, The Journal of the Watcher, The Remedy New Testament Expanded Paraphrase and The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For more information about Dr. Jennings and to hear his lectures, please visit the website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.comeandreason.com&source=gmail&ust=1497488753567000&usg=AFQjCNGcxS01flW16EMSwIJnCYfgBUbIaw" href="http://www.comeandreason.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.comeandreason.com</span></a>.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The God-Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Baker Books</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Release date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1612049471" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">September 5, 2017</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Available for preorder: </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/God-Shaped-Heart-Correctly-Understanding-Transforms/dp/0801075211&source=gmail&ust=1497488753567000&usg=AFQjCNEv1txo_3_HHRPofhCI8oVtIf6jsw" href="https://www.amazon.com/God-Shaped-Heart-Correctly-Understanding-Transforms/dp/0801075211" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.amazon.com/God-</span><wbr></wbr>Shaped-Heart-Correctly-<wbr></wbr>Understanding-Transforms/dp/<wbr></wbr>0801075211</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #777777;">###</span><br /></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-80805576719893740212016-12-15T17:21:00.002-08:002016-12-15T17:24:12.039-08:00TRANSFIGURATIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">TRANSFIGURATIONS: IS BEAUTY AN OMEN?<br /><br /><br /> A condition of complete simplicity/ (Costing not less than everything)---Little Gidding, The Four Quartets, T.S.Eliot<br /><br /><br /> Cocooned in a condition of utter simplicity,<br /> the silkworm will not stop oozing out its tapestry<br /> onto the point of death which is also its beauty.<br /><br /> How much beauty can be eked out of pain?<br /> Like the hurt bivalved flesh of the grimy oyster,<br /> would the papillon wings glisten like a pearl?<br /><br /> But this one is spun out of patience: there<br /> must be radiance out of a cocoon’s dark<br /> confines. It can only break into mobile light.<br /><br /> Colour the mariposa green, would that matter?<br /> Dye the silk out of its consumed gossamer nets,<br /> would that stop its flying out of a crude beginning?<br /><br /> Arrested from its final transfiguration, the worm<br /> turns and it is on a table–the grub of culinary<br /> quintessence! Quite like an earlier challenge:<br /><br /> “Eat of my flesh, drink of my blood. This covenant<br /> shall not be broken. I will be with you again when<br /> the radiance of this goblet dims into a eucharist.”<br /><br /> A condition of simplicity? Bear beauty and perish?<br /> Offer an unending dream in a kingdom, and be slain?<br /> The tale of the supreme sacrifice is also immolation.<br /><br /> What does it matter that I die then, if I flew out<br /> of a trellis like the monarch butterfly, that started<br /> as a wormed-out silkworm then food for the hungry?<br /><br /> I would be the worm, the injured mother pearl,<br /> the crucified madman who asked that his flesh<br /> be eaten, his blood quaffed, and live forever.<br /><br /> Beauty is an omen. Destroy this vessel of clay,<br /> and it can only spill the reddest of wine, the<br /> stoutest of ale: a dangerous promise of eternal life.<br /><br /><br /> —ALBERT B. CASUGA</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-33803352535086610442016-12-07T18:41:00.001-08:002017-03-10T03:24:22.412-08:00THE GREAT GRIEF OF EXTINCTION SERIES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
POET ROBERT FROST WROTE IN ONE OF HIS POEMS: EARTH IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR LOVE. HE WAS TOO OPTIMISTIC. (See my series on Extinction and End Times at https://ambitsgambit.blogspot.ca/2015/07/the-great-grief-series-dread-of.html<br />
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ALBERT B. CASUGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403297362821170299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158085392079467161.post-22627192736309671572016-11-15T19:24:00.001-08:002016-11-15T19:24:39.944-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“Ring the bells that can still ring/ Forget your perfect offering/ There is a crack in everything/ That's how the light gets in” ~ Leonard Cohen</div>
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How far have you gone from all that you were,<br /> little chipped stone from a hidden tributary,<br /> little pebble that has yet to reach the bottom<br /> of the well to hear its thunk and come to rest?</div>
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<br /> How far, indeed, that you must finally beg<br /> to be taken home? Where, what place, what<br /> troubled spaces have you been all these years?<br /> Bitter years, you say almost in descant candor.</div>
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<br /> Take you home? But where do you belong?<br /> If I knew, if I could follow that map long<br /> faded in your doleful heart that has dogged<br /> every fickle chord from every pied piper—</div>
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<br /> If I could find every pied-a-terre you’ve been<br /> that I might collect the shattered life pieces<br /> left of your gypsy heart so I could remould<br /> them to our heart’s desire, I would. I will.</div>
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<br /> Take you home. Prop you up, start you up<br /> once again from whence you came, where<br /> your heart is not merely a sieve for sorrow<br /> or pain, but where it is a fortress of care.</div>
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<br /> I am back, but I have nothing new to say,<br /> nor anything that I can offer save myself.<br /> Unchanged, undefined, unshackled, free.<br /> There is no other way you would have me.</div>
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Would you rather I had lost my insouciance?<br /> Would you have me speak only one language,<br /> that of fear, and would not risk this loss again?<br /> Sing only your song? Part my hair another way?</div>
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At the edge of the woods, I have mastered wiles.<br /> You’d think I had changed and now just a shadow<br /> of a broken man come home to lick old wounds<br /> that were left unsalved, cankered when I lost you.</div>
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I am the same, and this sameness will make you<br /> want to look again even if the thousand faces<br /> that you behold are those from a shattered mirror<br /> through whose cracks some light must still slither.</div>
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Trek back to the church belfry and be the deft<br /> hands of the carillonneur you wished you were<br /> when you were young, malleable, and oh, so free<br /> to dream, to laugh, to thumb your little nose</div>
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<br /> at the carousing lads vaulting over rooftops<br /> to call your name, to sing your name like<br /> perching sparrows lined on some errant wires<br /> at sunset warbling: sweet-sweet, sweet-sweet!</div>
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<br /> Take me back. Take me back. And we will retrace<br /> those letters carved on some saplings grown tall<br /> beyond our reach, and sing with carillon clangor<br /> those old evensongs, brave songs. Old love songs.</div>
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<br /> We will outdo the bell choir master on the belfry,<br /> ring them all, sing them all, hum them all until<br /> sundown overtakes us and we hold our tremulous<br /> voices like our stuttered promises of coming home.</div>
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MY ARS POETICA: A REPRISE<br />
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MY POEMS TODAY spell out my Ars Poetica as a practitioner of the literary art of poetry---the most venerable of the literary arts. <br />
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Like most literary artists, I restate my Ars Poetica as I write. This reminds me of an aesthetic which I may have defined some time ago in my The Aesthetics of Literature, a book I wrote for my literary theory and criticism classes at the De La Salle University in Manila. (ca. 1970s)<br />
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These poems, like those of poets Archibald MacLeish and Jose Garcia Villa, articulate my poetic credo. Describing the process, I also keep in mind the kind of poetry I deign to create.<br />
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1. APOLLO DESCENDING<br />
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It is a fiery birthing: after the lonely call<br /> of the last gull that darts after the last<br /> glow of sundown; after the sandpiper’s<br /> song peters out to a lost bird’s chirp; <br /> after all the images have crept under<br /> these breakwater boulders to surface<br /> perhaps as frenzied dancers casting<br /> shadows swaying underneath this tent,<br /> this caravanserai of dreams; after this,<br /> on a throne of palaver, a fire-bearer<br /> lights the torches that fence us all in.<br />
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Like Apollo’s captives, we cup flames<br /> in our palms and sing polyglot hymns<br /> to the beauty of words while we shower<br /> our paths with pellets of fire, as we crown<br /> the beggar queen with a flaming nosegay.<br />
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<br /> 2. SURFACING<br />
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Surfacing. We allow ourselves this one<br /> salving act when every balm fails.<br />
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Bobbing up for air where it is rare,<br /> we pray that this will hold long enough.<br />
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Enough for the moments at dusk when<br /> we must dive again, submerge again,<br />
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into depths we know will one day hold us<br /> down, and remain there to mend hurts<br />
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that in those magical spaces become<br /> like pearls: prickly cutting dirt engulfed <br />
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into bivalved flesh that may in turn<br /> become a magical gem from the agony.<br />
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Surfacing, we find ourselves some river<br /> stream to rest with the rolling river stones.<br />
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Surfacing, we know we must go back<br /> to the darkened depths, and like oysters<br />
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bear the pain cutting through our flesh<br /> that we may surface soon with a new pearl.<br />
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—ALBERT B. CASUGA<br />
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