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Fr. Thomas E. Beasley
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- United States
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Fr. Thomas Beasley
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- Favorite website
- http://home.earthlink.net/~beesknees/
- When it comes to peace, how would you describe yourself?
- I am a pacifist
- What do you believe are the 'burning issues' today?
- War, Hunger, Poverty, Our Planet, Violence, Human Rights
- So what is it?
- Jesus said it best, "... as you have done it to the least of these, you have done it unto me.
- What must we overcome to achieve peace?
- Other
- More
- I believe that Rock Star Jimi Hendrix said it best: " Until the power of Love overcomes the love of power ... there will be no peace."
- Can we change the world?
- Definitely
- More about me
- I am a Prison Missioner for the Diocese of Florida & Interim Chaplain @ Baker Correctional Work Camp.
- Promise to respect others and refrain from spamming?
- Yes
Fr. Thomas E. Beasley's Blog
I have a Face
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:54am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The following is authored by Mr. Louis Templeman, a good friend and former inmate at Baker C. I. Used with permission from mr. Templeman.
I HAVE A FACE by Louis Templeman
Standing on a concrete pad where a large diesel tank had been removed, I staredout through the 12' security fence, topped with razor wire. I saw the parade of men in blue going to lunch. It was very cold, windy, at most 45 degrees. It was so cold in the dorms that morning that one of our guards did the 7:00…
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Posted on October 22, 2008 at 4:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
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"So Let's Make a Difference for You & Yours & Everyone" and
"Happy Trails" & "Happy iPeaceing"
As You can see,We (the iPeace Family) are still here. "Enjoy"
Come be part of our group Gandhi, man of peace Thank youhttp://www.ipeace.me/group/gandhimanofpeace
Namaste
Friend check out this new message that I posted on my blogThank you
love, love, peace
Namaste
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Hi it’s good to know you. Stay blessed.
Regards, love and peace.
Rashad.
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Email: chairman@hopedevelopment.org
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LISTEN
You’re not listening
Sky is falling
You’re not listening
Sea is rising
In tempest-rage
You are not listening, no
And the angel of death
Comes on
Like rolling thunder
Earth is eaten away – this place
Now
This is a terrible moment
In the valley of tears
In a time of tribulation
Terrible, it is terrible I say
Truly terrible
When truth is at risk
And the heart and lungs
On all sides
There is betrayal
And everywhere, everywhere
In the eyes and mouths - poisons
Now, not before
Not after – Look – be sensitive
The ecstatic flame of angel
With the eyes of crucifixion
The one crucified
This
This is when the senses
(And the soul
Housed, ecosophic, inside the body)
Need to be alert
When choices are monumental
When life, all of life, life is in the balance
Answer this:
Do you need to
Hear the sirens screaming?
Do you need to
Witness the perfect storm?
To feel black rain, as in
August ’45? Does
Creation need to split apart for you and
Death weld together for faith
Dead Earth, dust
And deadly sky?
Where are you, where really
When I turn to look around
When I search to hear your footsteps
Feel you breathing
Do you dare to know
We-you and I-we are still alive?
There is difference
Life is on one hand, death on the other
Different
To live and die
Than to live for death, to
Be death’s ambassador,
The pallbearer, the anguished who
Tore the puzzle apart, flung it, pieces
Into furnace—end stop, endgame, ominous
Into oblivion
Answer to that – know it
Know (no), know
Your answer will be binding
Wait, wait, wait then… wait I beg you
For here there is love
There is
God in the shape of prayer still
And that is Kingdom
Blessed
Are the peacemakers, the
Earth-walkers
The brave who
Turn aside to feel the heartthrob, heartache of the world, to
Hear a teardrop fall
In velvet morning, an
Angel sigh despair, a newborn
Cry in the blood pool of life
To share, to taste, to give, to take
Our common bread
Our days
Body
Holy
Flame
Cross
He walks upon the water
In a wounded whisper
Word
From mouth to ear
Far off and near
The sound
Of spreading morning
Star fallen
On Hiroshima and the end
Star of Bethlehem!
Listen…
It is not prosperity
That the midnight bells are swelling
But Christ Mass and the dove
The dove
The dove of now
Peace – the cleansing rain
Listen…
Hush, be gentle, gentle I beg you
Listen…
Christmas Eve, 24 December 2007
from HEALING, A Book of Poetry by David Sparenberg
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