tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77671538938681525342024-02-07T19:13:43.793-05:00The SpireNews from MIT's Chaplain to the InstituteChaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-35918310814252623452016-09-27T10:30:00.000-04:002016-09-27T10:30:35.170-04:00Tuesdays in the Chapel, September 27, 2016<b>Tuesdays in the Chapel<br />Tuesday September 27 | 8:30am | MIT Chapel</b><br />
<b>Speaker: Brian Aull, Bahá'í Chaplain, MIT</b><br />
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<b>Readings</b>:<br />
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O CHILDREN OF MEN! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.<br />
-Bahá’u’lláh<br />
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Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?<br />
Malachi 2:10<br />
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"O Mankind, We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous of you." (Quran 49:13)<br />
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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world, above, below, and across, unhindered, without ill will, without enmity. –The Buddha<br />
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And when he sees Me in all and sees all in Me, then I never leave him and he never leaves Me, and he who in this oneness of Love, Loves Me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth he lives in Me. –Bhagavad Gita <br />
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<b>Talk (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/tuesdaysmit/september-27-2016-brian-aull-mit-bahai-chaplain" target="_blank">listen here</a>):</b><br />
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Saint Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church stands on the corner of 38th Street and Forest Manor Drive on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Attached to the church is the elementary school that I attended in the 1960s. From my home on Devon Lake, it was just shy of a 1-mile walk or bike ride to get to school or to Sunday Mass. At the time, the neighborhoods traversed in that journey were overwhelmingly white and upper middle class. If you drove south from the church a few blocks, the character of the neighborhood changed suddenly when you crossed a certain street. You were now in a predominately black neighborhood. As a white person, even in the safety of a passing car, I found the transition was accompanied by a sense of unease.<br />
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At one point, a plan was announced for the building of a Baptist church on the corner opposite Saint Andrew, a predominately black congregation. Someone circulated a petition seeking to stop this, claiming that the new church would create parking and traffic problems. My Uncle Francis, who lived just down the street, said that he “smelled a rat.” My elders all recognized the racial motivation behind the petition, and condemned it.<br />
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On the other hand, there were no black people in my family’s social circle. I lived in a sort of bubble. Thinking about the segregated neighborhoods we lived in recalls to mind Martin Luther King’s statement: "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated."<br />
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As the years went by, the demarcation line moved steadily northward, and there was “white flight” to suburbs farther north. There were economic motives, of course, but also it’s human nature to flee the unfamiliar, to fear what we don’t understand.<br />
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When I grew up, I had opportunities to escape the bubble. Going to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I met students and scholars from all over the world. Then I met my wife, who is the daughter of a marriage between an African American man and a white woman. Now I had black people who were part of my extended family. My own son and daughter are descendants of African slaves. In recent years, I became involved in reaching out to families, mostly Haitian immigrants, who live in low-income housing projects in Cambridge. I’ve conducted classes on virtues and spirituality for their children. Now I comfortably visit the parents or attend a child’s birthday party. Growing up in Indianapolis, it would have been inconceivable to go down to 23rd street and visit a black family.<br />
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From inside the bubble, it felt like a warm and protective shelter. From outside the bubble, I recognize it as a prison. Many of the fears I had were based on superstition. Being human, I still have many kinds of prejudice and bias; there’s always more progress to make, larger bubbles to escape.<br />
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In 2014, I returned to Indianapolis for a weekend to attend the first ever reunion of my grade school class. A number of the classmates attended Sunday Mass. The neighborhood population is now nearly 90% black, so I went there expecting to see an overwhelmingly black congregation. Instead, I saw a diverse one, blacks and whites celebrating the Mass together and working together on outreach service projects in the neighborhood. There were some whites that had refused the path of “white flight” and others who continued to attend the church after moving out of the parish. In a society where churches have been among the most segregated institutions, this is a worthy accomplishment and shows that racial alienation is not destiny. How we deal with diversity and difference is, in the final analysis, a choice.<br />
<br />Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-87359157048867805232016-09-13T16:17:00.001-04:002016-09-13T16:21:38.362-04:00Tuesdays in the Chapel - September 13, 2016John Wuestneck, Interim Chaplain to the Institute<br />
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2 Stories and a poem:<br />
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I believe, (you can disagree with me) we don’t get to choose our experiences with difference or diversity, they just present themselves.<br />
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I grew up in Minneapolis, MN. We lived in a working class neighborhood that was populated by lots of Swedish folks and Norwegians. I didn’t know that when I was a kid, most all of us had blue eyes and fair skin. But I was a minority, even though I didn’t really get that until high school. Names like Nelson and Olsen were spelled many different ways (Olsen, Olson, Ohlson, Ohlsson), but there was only one Wuestneck. And I was on the swimming team in high school.<br />
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We practiced at the university of Minnesota pool and since we had drivers licenses we drove to practice. We could drive at 15, which is a mistake, but that’s a whole story by itself. One evening before practice my mom was making spaghetti for dinner and since I had to leave for practice I would have to eat early. There were no pizza places anywhere near. Mom’s spaghetti was a casserole, pasta, sauce and whatever in a dish, baked for hours, but what did I know. I think the recipe is the one printed from the red and white cookbook that I found in her belongings, “The Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook”. She must have used that recipe and added the baking part to be creative because she was an artist, not a good cook. My sisters and I remember her now as the casserole queen. We used to like the hard noodles baked to the side of the dish – who knows why I even remember that. Well on the early dinner day for me I asked her or she offered me some of the unbaked spaghetti because I couldn’t wait before I had to leave for practice. I had some and I really liked it. No Italians around to introduce me to real spaghetti and gravy. So much for experience of difference. My respect for those yet to be known Italians in my life was lifted to new levels that day, and I never liked the baked variety again.<br />
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Early in my teen years I had a paper route, and I got a second job in a little corner grocery store. Morris Korsh was the owner. He was Jewish and only the second Jew I had met. There was a woman down the block from us who was Jewish and I shoveled her snow, but I never really got to know her. She seemed to always be in a bad mood, but I think that the cold and snow was the cause. Morry was different. He came from Germany before the Second World War with his family. As a boss he was simply wonderful. There were five or six of us who worked for him, stocking shelves, bagging groceries, keeping the walk in coolers filled, cleaning, getting held up at gun point, things like that. Only one gun point robbery. All of us were Christians and I knew nothing about Jews or their ways, except that somewhere we learned to cross the street and not walk on the side of the street with the synagogue. Ah, the roots of bigotry and prejudice.<br />
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Morry let us borrow his car to go on dates, drive to the beach or just drive around, he took us on fishing trips and hunting trips. He paid us well on the honor system, treated us with respect and was like another father to us. I worked for him for five years. He was a good boss and expected us to work hard and helped us play hard and was flexible and understanding about our needs and schedules.<br />
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I never knew about his Temple or synagogue. I knew his wife because she was the bookkeeper. I knew him as Morry and loved him a lot. He offered to pay our way through college and one of us took him up on that. It was much later in life that I learned why he had left in Germany and how hard his life had been. That experience with Morry gave me a great understanding of diversity even though there was no popular word like that then. His life of generosity and kindness and openness to my teen age foolishness made a big impact on me. Some of it rubbed off I’m sure. I didn’t choose these experiences, they just happened with me.<br />
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Last reading is a poem by a friend of mine. In introduction Harry writes: My Grandfather was 85 when he died nearly thirty six years ago. I finally put him to rest on Tuesday morning, April 7, 192 at 5:49 a.m. when I write this poem. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church, a founder of the local NAACP, president of the Community Center. When he was 75 he participated with the young people in the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. He was predictably proud when the governor of Missouri declared a day in his honor. But this poem is not about that kind of thing, because, when all is said and done, that is not the stuff of which grandfathers are made.<br />
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I often get tears in my eyes when I read this poem, it has deep meaning for me.<br />
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<b><i>My Grandfather </i>by Harry Johnson</b><br />
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My grandfather could shoot a hole through a half-dollar<br />
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at a hundred paces.<br />
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He could shoot a marble so hard it broke the marble it hit -<br />
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and it always hit the other marble.<br />
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He could throw a ball so hard<br />
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nobody was willing to catch it.<br />
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Hell, he once pitched a perfect game: twenty-seven up,<br />
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twenty-seven down - nobody reached first base.<br />
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But he couldn't buy a Coke at the five-and-dime.<br />
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My grandfather could put out a street light with a slingshot<br />
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made from a clothespin and a couple of rubber bands.<br />
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He could walk on stilts and walk on his hands<br />
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when he was sixty years old.<br />
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He could make a quarter disappear and<br />
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find a nickle in your ear.<br />
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He could win a prize at every concession on the midway<br />
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at the Missouri State Fair.<br />
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But he couldn't buy a Coke at the five-and-dime .<br />
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My grandfather could hit a rabbit on the run<br />
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with a single shot from a 22-long.<br />
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He could pitch horseshoes so well nobody would play<br />
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against him -got a ringer nearly every time.<br />
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He could sing bass in the Baptist Church choir all by himself,<br />
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and when he prayed there was a tear in every eye<br />
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and a lump in every throat.<br />
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He could eat six ears of corn and a dozen biscuits covered with<br />
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Grannie's orange/peach marmalade - and ask for more.<br />
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But he couldn't buy a Coke at the five-and-dime.<br />
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-34592670489598707072016-09-01T08:00:00.000-04:002016-09-13T16:52:38.607-04:00Parting words from Robert M. Randolph<br />
Friends, on August 30th my time as Chaplain to the Institute ended.<br />
<br />John Wuestneck will serve an interim role while a search for a permanent chaplain gets underway.<br /><br />I have been honored these last nine years to serve as the first Chaplain to the Institute. MIT is home to a diverse and vibrant community of believers and seekers in the varied realms of spiritual endeavor. From the grand traditions of faith to the small communities of what is happening now, MIT does what it always does. It creates vibrant centers of those who seek to understand the varied spiritual traditions and their search for meaning.<br /><br />As it always has, MIT hears many voices and tries to muffle none. Sometimes this leads to cacophony; on other occasions the symphony comes into tune. Billy Graham gave us that image drawing on the Christian tradition from the podium in Kresge. I find it an equally valid descriptor for the multifaceted community that is MIT. We listen and learn from each other.<br /><br />That has been the joy of this last near decade. The Chaplains have learned to work together holding close their unique views and hearing from others the values they hold in greatest esteem. They represent a true learning community: respecting difference and holding dear the values they share. Students learn from them and in a variety of ways replicate what they have seen and learned.<br /><br />Now is the appropriate time for the next chapter to begin. I look forward to watching it unfold.<br /><br />Robert M. Randolph<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Finally, …I would ask you to
remember because we didn’t think to tell you much about it, is that the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ultimate goal of life ought not to be
victory, nor power, nor riches, nor fame,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>although Harvard students get these in abundance. When you read the
Fifth Reunion report, … they all have accounts of these things heaped up in
abundance, buy the older the report and the shorter the account, the more the
emphasis is placed on things like contentment, serenity, inner peace, and
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together these past weeks has been focused on what we would like to see the
future look like. It has been a smorgasbord of insights and viewpoints. We have
been reminded about the denial of death and the challenge of autism; emotions
have been often raw and we have been reminded that we do not talk often
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Today we are
here to hear last words. This is the last week of classes and we meet only when
class is in session a concession to the hope that students would join us, but
that has not happened. And it is probably for the better, as these moments have
become important times for those who can make their schedules work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether we gather in the fall will not be my
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I turned to
my late friend Peter Gomes for our reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He reminds us of things we do not talked about. The search for meaning
is one side of a coin on which the other is the search for truth. Both embrace
the notion that we will often make mistakes. The ongoing conversation about the
Green Line extension is an unusual public discussion of mistakes made and the
effort to not let those failures stop an otherwise needed project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have engaged in some similar conversations
these last days about our own failures in building housing for our students. But
we will still need dormitories and those willing to make commitments to the
education that occur in residence. We learn from our mistakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As case in
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Sunday afternoon the elaborate and interesting piece blew down and I learned
from talking with those who were given the task of figuring out what happened
that they would learn far more the failure than they would have learned had all
gone well. Architects regard the learning process as shaped by learning from
miscalculations. So should we all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned in reflection over coffee; I hope those moments continue. We need them.
Peter Gomes offers wise counsel when he talks about religious sentiment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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standards are high, our efforts are flawed and we are tasked with showing the
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lives today. Dissatisfaction with our inability to solve problems that have
dogged human kind since our origins has boiled over into rhetoric that vents
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we bring into this world; drop Stephanie Kloos Smith a note if you have a
moment congratulating her on her first Mother’s Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the children we have inherited as part of
our work together. Or the relationships we nourish in our lives beyond MIT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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move toward retiring. There are so many things I would have done differently so
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I am grateful
to those who have spent Tuesday mornings here. Now let’s talk over coffee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Robert M Randolph</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Chaplain to the Institute</span></div>
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-77938038220028237252016-06-04T12:14:00.002-04:002016-06-04T12:14:58.478-04:00Graduation Invocation MIT 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Invocation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">June 3, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We are of diverse origin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We have come here from many
countries;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We speak many languages and
honor diverse communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We draw strength from
religious traditions as different as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">they are influential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We draw strength from cultures
that honor no higher power, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">but who aspire to greater
good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Today we invoke the presence
of the Gods we know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">And we reach beyond what we
know and give thanks for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">the beauty of our world and
the joy we share as we celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">this day of accomplishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We give thanks for the bricks
of Bexley Hall reminding us of what we do not know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We give thanks that the
universe challenges our sense of wonder and points beyond itself to greater
discoveries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We give thanks for those of
our guild who exhibited courage of purpose despite skeptics and nay-sayers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">And who heard the still small
voice of the cosmos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">May we remember and emulate
their courage and patience as we seek to build a better world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We are grateful for those who
have given us strength and encouragement:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our families who told us we could do it and
held up our hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">our teachers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who shared their wisdom and opened our minds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">our mentors who cried tears
and gave us hearts for service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">We understand that our
challenge is to not only give back to those who have given to us but to call
into being by our work a world that is whole!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">May it be so!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Amen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Robert M Randolph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Chaplain to the Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prelude: </span></b><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Herzlich tut mich verlangen ~ F. W. Zachau<b> </b>~ Bart Dahlstrom, organ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Readings:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bahá'ì </span></b><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This semester we’ve been asked to share our hopes for the
coming term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking about this, I
started reflecting on the word “hope.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In troubled times, that seems like a scarce commodity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin Luther King said that “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a riot is the language of the unheard.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we can also say that it’s the
language of the hopeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So one hope I
have for the coming term is to be able to offer a vocabulary of hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope can be used with many shades of
meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I mean not a naïve expectation
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To believe this is
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</span>The 20th century, for example, saw the retreat of antiquated world views
such as male superiority and white supremacy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the beginning of the century in the US,
women could not vote, were excluded from many professions, and regarded as an
inferior breed – barriers that fell during the course of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1900, reconstruction had ended in the
South and the nation was headed into a period that marked the low point in the
history of race relations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2008 marked
the election of the first black president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the wake of two ruinous world wars, the world took its first clumsy
steps toward international governance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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human rights, and undertake humanitarian work in the fields of health,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yes, there’s still
racism, sexism, and violent conflict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
we’ve crossed a threshold of beginning to recognize the oneness of the human
family and beginning to implement this principle in our institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite temporary setbacks, there’s no going
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The 20<sup>th</sup>
century also saw the rise of an interfaith movement, in which followers of
historically antagonistic religions were drawn together; by the end of the
century interfaith gatherings and services were common, something unthinkable a
few decades earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But is there a
danger that these efforts become a feel-good exercise that lacks a coherent
purpose and spiritual commitment? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can
religion catalyze the kinds of progress I’ve described?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or will it still be captive to narrow
sectarian dogmas that divide and balkanize humanity, suppress the life of the
mind, and sow the seeds of hatred and fanaticism? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The goal of interfaith work, as I see it, is
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Last fall, in The
Tech, I spoke out in defense of the Muslims on campus, while at the same time calling
on the world’s Muslim religious leaders to allow for greater critical inquiry and
efforts for reformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also
stressed the importance of interfaith work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m happy to report that a group of students have responded to this
call, and have begun to conduct a series of dinner gatherings that draw
together participants from diverse religions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">Speaker: </span></b><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">Brian Aull, Bahá'í Chaplain, MIT</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I have autism. And I’m not ashamed to admit that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">It may come as a bit of a surprise to you, as the only autism you may know of being exposed to have is the low-functioning, severe, non-verbal kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I do not have low-functioning autism. I am a high-functioning autistic. There’s a whole spectrum of autism, (that’s why its full name is autism spectrum disorder) and no two people with autism are the same. Those with high-functioning autism/mild autism/Asperger’s syndrome do indeed face extremely different issues to those with low functioning autism, but there are similar issues affecting the majority of the spectrum that most people do not know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Imagine having all five senses multiplied by one hundred. Many people with autism, myself included, have never experienced complete silence. We always hear the humming of the lights, or a bird outside, or even the sound of our own breath. We always hear this loud and clear, even in noise-filled crowded room. We feel labels in our clothes for the entirety of the day if they are not cut out, some smells and tastes make us literally unable to breathe. After this all gets too much (trust me, this usually doesn’t take too long for most) we can experience something called sensory overload. If visible to others, it probably looks like a tantrum (If you were wondering, I haven’t experienced full-blown sensory overload in years, but it still stands. You just learn how to repress it). However, we are not waiting to see if others respond. We want to get out of there as quick as possible, and we certainly don’t need judgement from others. I know our behaviours may seem self-injurious to those around us and it may seem funny to see a child who is not two kicking off and screaming, but who are you to judge? You have absolutely no idea what it is like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Imagine being seen as rude when you do not get the gist of social norms. Most people are born with a general understanding but just need to be reminded to mind their P’s and Q’s from time to time. Usually, they are well-mannered by the age of four or so. Well… we are all still learning, whether we are eight or eighty. We do try our hardest to think before we speak, but we slip up quite a lot. Sure, it’s funny and cute when a three year old says something they shouldn’t, but when a nine year old accidently starts an argument between their family after they repeat something their parents muttered under their breath (Guess who did that, kids!), you’re seen as rude and inconsiderate…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Imagine struggling to catch a ball, hold a pen or do anything that involves fine or gross motor skills. We are the children that run with a gait, who are always picked last for the team, whose handwriting ranges from scruffy to illegible. The worst thing is, we are not often given help for this. As autism is known as an invisible disability, people think we are not trying hard enough, children laugh at our mishaps, we feel left out and like a failure on many occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Although after reading this article autism may seem like a terrible thing to have that will ruin your entire life, don’t be fooled! All of the best scientists (Einstein, Edison, etc.) that changed our world and way of thinking drastically were rumored to have autism, along with such famous faces as Daryl Hannah, Tim Burton and the legendary Temple Grandin. We can go on to do the most amazing things if our self-esteem isn’t shattered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Autism has no known cause and no known cure, but there is somebody who can make life easier for those who are diagnosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">It’s you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Autism Awareness Day is coming up on April 2nd, and you will probably be told to wear blue to make people more aware, but I want you to do more than that. Make every day autism awareness day. Try to make a safe space if somebody with autism is on edge at a party. Gently nudge them if they say something wrong. Pick them for your team if playing sports. Even smiling and saying hello in the corridor. Small gestures matter. Often, they can speak louder than words ever could. Please, be autism aware.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
March 25, 2006, a team of therapists and social workers diagnosed my son Max
with autism. It was a cold grey Sunday, in our tiny condo in the Charlestown
Navy Yard. The day was also Max’s second birthday, and once our door slammed as
the visitors left, we had never felt more isolated or alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not a
great birthday present. What’s followed is a 10-year odyssey of learning about
autism, but more important, learning about Max, my wife, myself, and our
extended community of friends and family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
hear this about many medical conditions, and it’s true about autism: when one
family member has it, the family has it. The effects are pervasive. And there’s
a natural conflict in the mind and heart of an autism parent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
dark side is exhausted, frustrated, sad, and anxious over the current state of
their child. “What is his future like? Will he be alright after I’m gone? Who
will care for him when he’s an adult?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
light side is positive, enthusiastic, happy, and calmly looking forward to the
child’s next achievement. Next word, or glance or gesture, which sometimes come
painfully slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Those
two emotional states—exhaustion and elation—must coexist for the parents to
function. The true definition of cognitive dissonance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
while all parents face this to some extent, parents of autistic kids feel it
more keenly, and for longer—ASD kids can develop differently and more slowly,
so the concerns a typical parent may have for a three- or four-year old can
persist for many years in an ASD kid. And we feel it in ways that make us
confront personal and familial issues head on, with no filter or buffer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You may
not know it, but you know someone who has a child with autism. According to the
CDC in 2014, 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls has an autism spectrum disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I shared
two readings for today. The first, Violet Fenn’s article, offers some positive
advice on connecting with and showing support for parents of ASD kids, from a
simple “Are you OK?” to an offer of a large cup of gin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
it’s easy to lose the voice of the person with autism in the discussion,
because people with ASD oftentimes cannot express themselves in ways that
neurotypical people understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
article by Beth Hiatt, a 13-year old Australian, published in her school
magazine helps give voice to the voiceless. To share some insight into how
persons with autism are affected by everyday occurrences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One
thing you will seldom see from persons with ASD is discussion of a “cure” for
autism. For them autism is part of who they are, and suggesting that it’s a
disease implies that they themselves are less-than neurotypical people. Also
you will hear more about “neurodiversity” in the years to come, a movement that
encourages acceptance of all persons across the autism spectrum and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
movement resonates at MIT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
connection between quantitative, systematic thinking and autism has long been
known, and the dimensions of that connection are becoming clearer. A recent
Stanford Research Institute International study examined 11,000 students across
the country and found that more young adults with ASD choose science,
technology, engineering and math majors than their peers in the general
population or with other disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
common thread between persons with ASD and their parents is that autism is not a
disease. From my perspective, autism is a catch-all term for numerous,
interconnected neurological conditions that express themselves differently and
to differing levels in each person. Hence the saying, “If you’ve met one person
with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” And while groups like Autism
Speaks—whose mission is to research “causes, prevention, treatments and a cure
for autism”—light up the world blue and cover it in puzzle pieces to raise
awareness of autism, I suggest that persons with ASD, and their families need
support, understanding, and acceptance more than they need a cure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Each
morning I wake up with that conflicting mix of sadness and hope. His mom and I
help Max get ready for school—which he loves—and send him into the world not
knowing what the world holds from him … a feeling that’s very different from
the similar worries of other parents. I believe the world will be more
accepting and accommodating in the years to come for Max and people like him.
Technology has helped persons with ASD connect with the world and others in new
and exciting ways. But while I get to share my feelings and experiences with
you today, there’s someone else you know who is feeling scared, alone, and
isolated, and who could really use that huge cup of gin and some encouragement.
Both moms and dads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Please
help them. I—and they—will appreciate your caring. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Seven things you should say to the parent of
an autistic child<br />
Violet Fenn, Dec. 15, 2015 (Excerpts)<br />
</span></b><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/15/7-things-you-should-say-to-the-parent-of-an-autistic-child-5548187/"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/15/7-things-you-should-say-to-the-parent-of-an-autistic-child-5548187/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1. I don’t understand autism, can you tell me
more?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - Most of us knew very little
about autism before we had kids, so you’re not alone! We’re happy to fill you
in, just remember that our view is about autism as it
affects our family and our views are likely to be different to the
next person you speak to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">ASD-related
issues affect people in different ways, so never be afraid to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2. Are you okay?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - The most obvious, and the easiest for both parties. Sometimes all we
need is a friendly smile and a casual enquiry – even if the answer is a
resounding ’No!’, it’s nice to know that people care. I usually go with a
tilt of the head and knowing eye roll – accompanied with a mouthed ‘you okay?’
it can be enough just to let that parent know they are not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most
people are well practised in dealing with their autistic child’s public
meltdowns – nothing teaches tolerance than having to stand quietly by whilst
your offspring screams incoherently at the top of their voice in the middle of
a shoe shop. I learnt long ago that it’s usually easier to let my son yell a
bit then shepherd him out of the store with the first pair of trainers I could
find, crossing everything that they actually fit. But I have on occasion been
very grateful for a stranger picking up my bags and helping me wedge them over
my shoulders so that I didn’t have to let go of the screaming banshee in my
other hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3. Can I help right now? Would you like
this very large glass of gin/cup of coffee/shoulder to cry on?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - As in, ‘can I do the shopping/run to the post office for you/go get
you a newspaper’ – when we spend an awful lot of our time on high alert and/or
filling in the endless paperwork that seems to come with ASD diagnoses (not to
mention the appointments), parents of ASD kids almost always drop themselves to
the bottom of the priority list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
don’t even have to speak in order to help us – just do something that shows you
care and/or empathise. We’re not expecting you to have any answers –
hell, no one appears to have the answers, not even the endless
specialists that end up involved in our daily lives have the answers – but a
friendly ear and a cuppa can work wonders after a day of trying to figure out
why our kid is utterly hysterical when all we did was put their chicken nuggets
on the opposite side of the plate to usual (we didn’t even know there was
a right side of the plate until now).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">4. How are you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - So simple, yet it makes such a difference. Just knowing that others
are thinking of you can sometimes be all you need to get through the day. But
you have to mean it – there is a fair chance that we will tell you
exactly how we are in great detail, along with flailing hand gestures and
incoherent wailing noises. Do not panic! Keep passing the tissues and
the chocolate and we will eventually wind down like a clockwork toy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">5. How are you/what are you up to? (directed
at your child)</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - As with all people, some
autistic kids will be better at communicating than others. My son can talk the
hind legs off a donkey if it’s a subject he likes, but will be silent and
utterly non communicative if you ask about something he has no interest in. The
fact that he finds interaction difficult doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to
interact at all, though – he loves people and is in the most part incredibly
polite and personable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">6. Would your son/daughter like to come? We
can work around their needs</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - My son has been to very
few birthday parties in his eleven years and they’ve tailed off almost entirely
as he’s got older. When another child at his old primary school invited him to
his party last year I actually wept with gratitude. We know that it can be
difficult to include our kids, but we are so very bloody grateful to those who
make the effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">7. It’s not your fault/I believe you/you
are doing a good job</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> - We really, really need
to hear this sometimes, even if we already know it. However confident we are as
parents, a lot of us have been in situations where our child has been utterly
awful and we’re left to pick up the pieces (sometimes literally). And however
much we know they don’t mean it, there’s often a tiny voice in the back of our
head muttering ‘maybe s/he wouldn’t be like this if you were a better parent’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p>Matthew Bauer</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p>Director of Communications, MIT DSL </o:p></span></div>
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-12756036338490446382016-05-10T13:39:00.002-04:002016-05-10T13:56:29.899-04:00My Hope for MIT<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Those who make us believe that anything’s
possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who
have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every
reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how
to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about
seemingly impossible social change. ” <br />
― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64732.Paul_Rogat_Loeb"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Paul Rogat Loeb</span></b></a><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/280301"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of
Fear</span></b></a><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My Hope for MIT. Reflecting
on the past when thinking about the future.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
year was 1986. I turned 16 and my world changed overnight. I had a license and
a car and freedom. “Shoot we’re out of milk. I’ll go mom!” I can still remember
the excitement and joy I felt when I would grab the keys and walk toward my
1979 light blue VW Rabbit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m
the youngest of 4 girls – my sister closest in age is 5 years my senior. In
1986, she was a 21 year old wild child. My sister could party and did so
frequently. One night, she went clubbing and picked up a guy. I heard the
whispers the next morning, driving drunk, the guy (a complete stranger) was in
the hospital, my sister was in jail, her brand new car was destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Six
years earlier, in 1980 a 13 year old girl named Cari Lightner was killed by a
drunk driver in Fair Oaks California. The driver was a 46 year old man who left
her body at the scene. Following this accident, it was discovered that he had
previously been arrested for another DUI hit and run. Channeling her grief and
outrage, Candace Lightner, Cari’s mother, founded MADD, Mother’s Against Drunk
Driving.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not
until my sister’s accident in 1986 did drunk driving became a personal issue in
my household. Up until that point, I hadn’t really given it much thought. I
remember my freshmen year of high school, they parked a wrecked car on the
front lawn of the school right before senior prom as a warning of what could
happen if anyone drove drunk that weekend. I did what all my friends did, I
walked by the car shaking my head and then promptly forgot about it. The reason
is that one, isolated image and message was not enough to inspire us to think
deeply about changing our behavior. And, I thought to myself, I would never
drive drunk so this message isn’t really for me. I didn’t see myself as part of
the problem and therefor as part of the solution.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Beginning
in 1980 and building slowly at first, MADD was able to accomplish a
transformative cultural shift. Out of tragedy, they managed to build a
movement. The isolated tragedies became a public health issue. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Within a few years, we were seeing the stories of families who lost
loved ones to drunk driving in movies and TV shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They coordinated one week of all prime time comedies to tackle the issue
in a story line. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Politicians were lobbying for stiffer penalties</span></div>
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establishment and drove drunk, and on and on. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
out of all this, within a few years, we saw a distinct shift in public opinion
and the social norms around drunk driving. It became something we all felt
responsible for stopping. “Dude, give me your keys, you’re not driving tonight”
became the expectation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
was 1999 and I was hired by Western Washington University to serve as the first
sexual assault educator. What I saw was similar to my early high school
recollections on drunk driving. People were universally against rape. No one
argued in favor of sexual assault. But most people didn’t see a place for them
in the discussion. If you saw yourself as neither a victim nor perpetrator, it
was difficult to see how you could help end this private, hidden phenomenon
known as “date rape.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over
the course of a few years, I started to see a shift in the attitudes of
victims. In the beginning, it was called “the click.” Groups of students who’d
been assaulted started finding each other. Through support groups or, later,
the internet, these women and some men were talking to each other. And what
they started to hear from each other was the common thread that each felt responsible
for what happened to them. I must have done something wrong. I must have sent
the wrong message, worn the wrong clothes, said the wrong words. But as they
spoke to each other, the click would happen. If it’s happening in such a
consistent way to so many people, maybe it’s not the fault of the individual. Maybe
there’s something larger happening. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt;">And
that realization began a new movement. We saw</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">college students uniting to force their schools to better address the
problem </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">public health experts studying prevention efforts to figure out what
works – with the increased focus came grant money to study the problem </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">with increasing federal mandates, companies started developing online
training tools, climate surveys, and campus campaigns like Green Dot and MVP
and 1 in 4 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">parent associations began demanding their daughters be protected by
increased security, improved policies, and clear student conduct expectations </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">faculty began organizing to lend their expertise and powerful voice </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">the federal government started enforcing laws that had previously been
on the books only </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">and we saw for the first time the president and vice-president of the United States speaking out about non-stranger rape and telling the country
“it’s on us.”</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All
of this gives me great hope. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1999, I could never have imagined that within a
few short years, we would see national conferences for every level of college
administration devoted to the subject of sexual assault. For the last 4 years,
Title IX has been the focus of the national and regional conferences for groups
like college and university general counsels; the national association of
student affairs; judicial officers; risk managers; college health care
providers; mental health clinicians; drug and alcohol counselors; alumni affairs;
and parent associations to name a few. A forceful coalition called Faculty
Against Rape has formed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At
all levels, people are talking about what they can do to improve response and
prevention efforts. This is a true model of how to address a crisis through a
public health lens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">As Suzy Kassem writes
about in Rise Up and Salute the Sun - “To really change the world, we have to
help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental
process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority.
Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay
persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different.
Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help
all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that
they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become
better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is
mankind's main common language.” <br />
― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4551735.Suzy_Kassem"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Suzy Kassem</span></b></a><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">,
</span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14994756"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem</span></b></a><span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
brings me to my hope for the future which is that this energy and focus on
campus sexual violence begins to trickle down. Higher education has been highly
criticized in its handling of sexual violence and gender discrimination. The
result has been a vast improvement in the way this issue is handled. Although
there is certainly plenty of work still left to do. What I hope is that we as a
country begin to realize that the foundation for issues of sexual assault,
rape, dating violence, and harassment is formed long before students set foot
on our campuses. Consent and respect should not be new concepts for freshmen.
Here’s my hope for the not too distant future: </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">parents are given the skills to instill these values in their children
before they enter kindergarten</span></div>
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health including consent, communication, respect, and the role of alcohol is
taught every year at every level<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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violence and scripted gender roles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their youth and their bodies. The only 2 professions where women actually out earn
men in the same field are modeling and sex work. What does that tell us about
the value we place on women?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of human emotions. I was at a retreat with college students a few years ago.
One of the activities was to break up into groups and create a performance on a
theme. There were 5 teams of all men and each team was given the theme “act
like a man.” All 5 groups did a performance depicting how they used violence
(either early on in childhood or later in adolescence). We need to flip the
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world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her
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a girl were sexist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that a new freshmen pledge made comments that made them think he didn’t fully
appreciate the importance of consent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they didn’t even know passed out at a party and they refused to leave her
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Reflecting
on What We have lost<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To landscape than to time:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">It’s as if you’d reached<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The top of a hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">And could see all the way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To the end of your life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">So you know without a doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">That it has an end-not that it <i>will</i>
have,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But that it <i>does</i> have,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Mortality focuses the mind and heart. Even on a
university campus where we are forever young, mortality grabs us. That is what
happened to me when I finally paid attention to what was happening. Thanks to
Mitch McConnell’s strategy of intransigence, the hounds of hell have been
released calling for action of any sort: “taking our country back” and “building
a wall” seem to be the catch phrases of choice. Most know that they do not
understand what it means to take something back from the American people; they
just do not like who the American people now are. And the wall is nonsense. But
it feels good to vent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I understand the anger. Lots of things I
thought settled by the Civil Rights Movement seem to be disappearing. What the
voting rights act made possible has been gutted by flagrant political
gerrymandering. Just as Mitch owned up to undermining any legacy Barack
Obama might build, so too Republican state legislatures have worked to make
voting more difficult for those on the margins, minorities, the elderly, the
young. All in the name of preventing voter fraud. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And voter fraud translates into people not
voting like the legislators would like them to vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I graduated from seminary in a time of high
idealism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Movement was underway and America
was changing. The media began to look like America. The most obvious shift was
in television. Amos and Andy gave way to Sanford and Son and then the Huxtables
moved in next door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Our family gathered to watch them each Thursday
night. We were living in urban America and we felt the problems we were dealing
with were not unlike what they dealt with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We laughed together at shared human foibles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a road map for how to make it in the
new America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">When our second daughter graduated from
college, Bill Cosby gave the speech at graduation. His advice was sound: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told the graduates, “Don’t plan to move
home.” It was advice that many could not follow, but the economy does not
always listen to good advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last I
noticed Pepperdine has not taken back their honorary doctorate. Being a college
with a religious heritage, they seem to understand something others have
forgotten. If honorary degrees were given only to perfect specimens of the
human race, they would all remain in the hands of their makers. Americans love
blindly and dismantle what they find flawed with equal passion. MIT does not
give honorary degrees and the policy has allowed us to avoid many awkward
conversations over the course of our history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The legal system will grind out a form of
justice for Cosby. His behavior appears to have been abusive and criminal, but
he is standing in for a generation that told its young men that women were
objects to be possessed and conquest was the measure of manhood. Drugs to bulk
the body helped with performance in sports; drugs played a role in sexual
fantasies. They still do. There is an arc of accepted sexually exploitive
behavior that runs from Rhett Butler, carrying a resistant Scarlett O’Hara to
her bedroom, down through the golden age of Playboy. The only bad sex was no
sex. There is no color line to cross when it comes to boorish behavior and Bill
Cosby is a reminder of a collective societal dysfunction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is hard to bring a class action suit against
middle-America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Here at MIT pornography was a major fundraiser
for student activities during that period. There were few who had the temerity
to say that they thought <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Debbie Does
Dallas</b> was inappropriate fare as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>introduction to the Institute. A Dean of
Student Life, Shirley McBay, who knew exploitation when she saw it, and an
Associate Provost, Samuel Jay Keyser, who understood that free speech was never
without cost, finally pulled the plug. Their courage is not forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Now, on the national stage, the Republicans
start talking about the implications of having small hands. Like school boys
who want to see how far they can spit or pee, the Republican candidates remind
us that we have not traveled as far as we thought. They remind us that Bill
Cosby is both a product and a victim of a cultural fallacy. Sexual powers are
never a reasonable measure of masculinity or leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-31356847043276479182016-03-16T11:49:00.000-04:002016-03-16T11:49:12.832-04:00On Flags<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">American flags are everywhere: on campus, in churches, political
rallies for sure, town halls, military bases, lapels of politicians, school
rooms, sterns of many boats, memorials, caskets, burnings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well not so many flag burnings these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was watching a flag Sunday morning while
waiting to pick up Suzanne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched it
for a long time and thought about this vision thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flag is blown around and stands out from the
pole because of the wind, which is driven by the weather systems, highs and
lows, caused by ice up north and El Niño in the pacific and the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That flag was flying and it was very
inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we could only pay more
attention to those little beautiful things like flags flying, perhaps we would
be a better people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now people always know what’s best for everyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to presume that I know what’s
best for you or MIT or Cambridge or Somerville, or Massachusetts or the
USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t, but I have some
clues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we only could honor other
folks' sacred texts and way of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
we could love and honor rats and snakes and cockroaches as much as our dogs and
cats we might respect the life of all living beings and the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the bed bugs and ticks and mosquitoes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are so small compared to the planet, the length of life, the
solar system, the galaxy, the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But how great our accomplishments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How precious are our families, friends, partners – time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How precious our country represented by that
flag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That flag isn’t red voters or blue
voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wish politicians would just say they don’t know how to deal with
ISIS or global warming or North Korea or poverty or the national debt, or lead
in the Flint water supply, or black males in prison, or folks fleeing to our
country across borders who want a piece of the pie we are so fortunate to
have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My vision of a politician is one
who rents his home or lives in one valued about the same or less than ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you have white feet or black feet or yellow feet or red feet or
brown feet or even fungus feet, they don’t identify who you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your heart does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I would like to tell you that my vision is that I can eat ice cream
and chocolate and chips to my hearts content, but then we know my heart
wouldn’t like that in the long run.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My vision is that we could be ruled by our hearts, a species that
honors and respects all living beings, a species that is generous and kind, a
species that helps those who are in need, a species that will be on Allah's
good side and Yahweh’s arm of peace and God’s care giver and a species who can
ask questions and wonder at the answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And within that species that we can find our way to contribute to
the whole of all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reading:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The White-Tailed Hornet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The white-tailed hornet lives in a balloon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That floats against the ceiling of the woodshed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The exit he comes out at like a bullet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Is like the pupil of a pointed gun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And having power to change his aim in flight, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He comes out more unerring than a bullet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Verse could be written on the certainty <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With which he penetrates my best defense <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of whirling hands and arms about the head <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To stab me in the sneeze-nerve of a nostril. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Such is the instinct of it I allow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet how about the insect certainty <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That in the neighborhood of home and children <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Is such an execrable judge of motives <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As not to recognize in me the exception <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I like to think I am in everything—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One who would never hang above a bookcase <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His Japanese crepe-paper globe for trophy? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He stung me first and stung me afterward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He rolled me off the field head over heels <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And would not listen to my explanations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That's when I went as visitor to his house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-27236677604432473702016-03-11T11:22:00.001-05:002016-03-11T11:23:22.748-05:00Drink Coffee, Do Good<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">18 Woe to the land of whirring wings<sup>[</sup><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah18:1-6&version=NIV#fen-NIV-17999a" title="See footnote a"><sup>a</sup></a><sup>]</sup><br /> along the rivers of Cush,<sup>[</sup></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah18:1-6&version=NIV#fen-NIV-17999b" title="See footnote b"><sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">b</span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">]</span></sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><br /><sup>2 </sup>which sends envoys by sea<br /> in papyrus boats over the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">Go, swift messengers,<br />to a people tall and smooth-skinned,<br /> to a people feared far and wide,<br />an aggressive nation of strange speech,<br /> whose land is divided by rivers.</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">All you people of the world,<br /> you who live on the earth,<br />when a banner is raised on the mountains,<br /> you will see it,<br />and when a trumpet sounds,<br /> you will hear it.</span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">This is what the Lord says to me:<br /> “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,<br />like shimmering heat in the sunshine,<br /> like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”<br /><sup>5 </sup>For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone<br /> and the flower becomes a ripening grape,<br />he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,<br /> and cut down and take away the spreading branches.<br /><sup>6 </sup>They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey<br /> and to the wild animals;<br />the birds will feed on them all summer,<br /> the wild animals all winter.</span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><br /></span></div>
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Good morning and thank you for coming. </div>
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When I was asked to speak almost 3 weeks ago, it was not an easy decision to take, specially being the 2nd speaker this semester after Dr. Robert Randolph. </div>
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The theme this semester being: "Vision: What I would like to see happen in the coming term" </div>
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I first thought to talk about "never again" Never again is or was chosen by the UN with reference to genocide, but since it did happen again and again. </div>
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Every morning I listen to the radio, and it's all about primaries in New Hampshire or Ohio or just another State talking about the upcoming president elections in November this year, I think I am not good or just I don't know much about American politics but still I can't talk about politics in African countries either... It can be very COMPLICATED there. </div>
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Then I remembered listening to a sermon as I visited Park Street Church in Boston, the preacher talked about a very delicate, sensitive topic in the US. "RACE" </div>
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This is February, the Black History Month, he spoke of shooting, race in schools, Oscar so white... I spent a week either seeing an exhibition of race celebrating Martin L. King Jr... Just walking into the infinity corridor, or so, for me race is still a topic that I try to not have a discussion on. </div>
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Back to the sermon, at the end, the preacher touched on why they serve/drink the "THOUSAND HILL" coffee, this coffee come from Rwanda, the land of Thousand Hills. </div>
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This is the story, in 1994 after the horrible genocide that happened in Rwanda, the country had to find a way to reconcile and put people back to life together again, this wasn't an easy process, and actually the process is still on. </div>
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So the country asked help and this American company started helping farmers into coffee production and then by creating jobs. </div>
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As you can see the picture on the back page, the story is that the guy was the neighbor to the lady before the genocide and during the genocide he did kill the lady's family and was in prison for a long time, in the reconciliation process he is now out and work as a former in those coffee farms, the lady ended up giving the land or part of their land to the coffee program. </div>
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I am not trying to sell coffee here, but this have been a great help in the reconciliation process in Rwanda. </div>
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What I'd like to see happen, I think I just wish we could do good... And better. </div>
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Drink coffee do good. </div>
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Thank you<br />
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14px;">Claude Muhinda Rwakagwa </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. <sup>2 </sup>As people moved eastward,<sup>[</sup><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis11:1-9&version=NIV#fen-NIV-269a" title="See footnote a"><sup>a</sup></a><sup>]</sup> they found a plain in Shinar<sup>[</sup></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis11:1-9&version=NIV#fen-NIV-269b" title="See footnote b"><sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">b</span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">]</span></sup><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"> and settled there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The origins of MIT in its modern iteration reach back
to the 1930s and Karl Taylor Compton. Compton was from Princeton, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trained in Physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His contributions to the war effort during
World War II were matched by his vision for MIT as a world class
institution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compton’s roots were deep
as well in the reformed Christianity practiced at Princeton. Members of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">family served as missionaries in India and his wife
spent much of her time at MIT seeking space for a chapel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">His successor, James Killian, built the chapel she
dreamed of and laid the foundation for an even more robust MIT, one that had
room and purpose for the liberal arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the chapel is a plaque designating the space as the symbol of the MIT
commitment to creating an environment where students might explore the meaning
of religious faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">So they have done since the building was opened in
1955. The notion of educating “A New MIT Man” was Killian’s in the aftermath of
the war. The suggestion that science had been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">hijacked in order to win the war without appropriate
attention to ends and means stung. The use of the atomic bomb was a case in
point. In response, Killan thought an MIT student should be as concerned with
implications of a scientific advance as they were with the advancement itself.
The eyes that peered into the dark night sky should be as concerned with what
they were looking for as they were with how and why they were looking because
as the universe gave up its secrets there was always the cost of the knowledge
obtained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The chapel and the larger Kresge Auditorium, “The
Meetinghouse of MIT”, were the appropriate places for such questions to be
asked..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Since then below the radar (figuratively speaking) physicists
honed their skills and listened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
September 14<sup>th</sup>, 2015 they heard something. They heard what Einstein
said they might, but a hundred years ago he thought the prospects were dim. He
was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">On February 11<sup>th 2016 </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they made the announcement in Cambridge. Our study
of the universe suddenly had a new set of sensors. We might see, but now we could
hear the destructive harmonies of black holes collapsing into one another and
sending their death knell across the universe like ripples in a giant pond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">It had taken nearly a century; the elders who had
argued for the funding for such a study and who believed in what they were
doing while others waivered, clapped their hands. Somewhere Einstein smiled. Others
stepped forward confident that the discoveries were only beginning. In the same
way we could say we didn’t know what we didn’t know, we could also say we did
not know what we might learn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">What of the dialogue between science and religion that
had been implied? I listened carefully but the conversation was muted by the
joy of discovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing like
being vindicated on a great stage. Those who thought big and carefully about
LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) had paid dearly for
their audacity. Thousands of folk had contributed to the LIGO effort and all
felt part of a very special club. And that brings up the second thing I noted.
Modern science is an international effort. The temple of science hosts a
diverse congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">But what of the faithful? They seem unshaken. Those who
reduce religion to factoids that can be ordered or reordered to match the
advances of science seem to have little to say. Or maybe they have gotten tired
trying to prove what cannot be proven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
whose confidence is grounded not in facts but in experience and a sense of
mystery seem to have learned a bit from our friends in Physics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">They waited patiently for the music to begin ignoring
those who had other ways to spend the money they needed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So too wait those who think the music of the
universe is divine. They hear with interest the notions that there are new
discoveries to be made and wait for them. The notion that the universe is no
accident remains a viable conjecture and those who think that way know as well
that values such as justice, mercy, accountability and forgiveness are
sometimes as hard to measure as gravitational waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I take comfort in remembering the words of Lewis
Thomas,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We have a wilderness of mystery
to make our way through in the centuries ahead and we will need science for this,
but not science alone. Science will in its own time, produce the data and some
of the meaning in the data…For getting a full grasp, we shall need.. all sorts
of brains outside the fields of science, most of all the brains of poets, but
also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in
general.” (quoted in Leonard Allen, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Cruciform Church</b>, p. 89.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Isabel Wilkerson in a recent opinion piece in the New
York Times (2/14/16) noted that it was just over a hundred years ago that the
family of Emmett Till began their move to Chicago<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and she went on to link Till with Tamir Rice
and declare them both sons of the great migration of black Americans to the
northern cities in search of freedom. Real freedom has proved as elusive as the
celebrated gravitational waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Our religious communities, concerned as they are with
the values that expand the meaning of what it is to be human and what it means
to reflect the values we declare of ultimate worth, need to take a deep breath
and step up. The work does not stop when critics declare it worthless; it does
not stop when critics say it costs too much; it does not stop when we listen
and hear only the words of hatred and violence. We all pay a price when we
commit to a great cause and the results do not come quickly or on our
timetable. The waters of justice do roll and we must be there to listen if we
are to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">It was an exciting week at MIT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Robert M Randolph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Chaplain to the Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Cambridge, MA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-45426375237957362512016-02-24T13:59:00.003-05:002016-02-24T13:59:42.444-05:00Embracing the Process<div class="WordSection1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"I realized that it is simply impossible for a human being to be and remain "good" or "pure". If, for instance, I wanted to be attentive in one direction, it could only be at the cost of neglecting another. If I gave my heart to one thing, I left another in the cold...No day and no hour goes by without my being guilty of some inadequacy. We never do enough, and what we do is never well enough done...except being inadequate, which we are good at, because it is the way we are made. This is true of me and of everyone else." - Anna Blaman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"I don’t know what I’m doing, because I don’t do what I want to do. Instead, I do the thing that I hate...The desire to do good is inside of me, but I can’t do it. I don’t do the good that I want to do, but I do the evil that I don’t want to do." - </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Romans 7:15, 18b-19 CEB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The theme this semester is vision, what we would like to see for the year. And it's a really a very broad topic. What would I like to see? In what area of my life, in what part of the world? And how? Why that change, that alteration, that growth? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Two things came to mind as I was trying to settle on a vision of what I would like to see different in my life this next year, or different in the world. Two thoughts were prompting and giving shape to vision I was attempting the formulate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first is resolutions. Around the new year, everyone is talking about resolutions of course. Perhaps it seems weird to even bring it up now. It's February. You've missed the boat. In fact, it's mid February. It's far too late to even reference them. On the other hand, maybe this is precisely the time to bring them back up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the beginning of every year, we once again attempt to strengthen our resolve so as to bring about change in our lives and in the world. We want to see personal growth or professional development. We want to see the organizations we are involved with move in new and different directions. We want our communities and our cities to prosper. We hope our states to stand tall and vote for particular people in the presidential primaries. Indeed, right now visions for the future are being peddled everywhere you turn. We want to see the entire world continue to move forward. These resolutions, these visions of what might be come to us at the dawn of each new year. We ask ourselves questions like, "Where are we?" and "Where are we going?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This making of resolutions and setting of goals is nothing new, but this year something about the conversation bothered me. Alongside the goals and desires to change, there is a counter narrative that pushes back against this apparent optimism. Late night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel throw out statistics about how many people fail in keeping their new year resolutions almost as soon as they're made. They interview people on the street, asking whether or not they have kept their resolutions. Unsurprisingly, the most common answer is "no". It's all in good fun and Kimmel highlights our sometimes overly optimistic or idealistic visions for our new year. This year, however, I found the focus upon the failure a little irritating. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This perspective suggests that unless the change happened right away, it wasn't worth even trying. If your resolution for the year was to eat better or exercise more or read more books and if you haven't already done it a few weeks in, then you might as well give up. You've failed. This is a message of ultimate failure if you have not immediately altered or reached that goal you are reaching for this year. There is no room for process. There is no room for slower improvement. The admission of the current state of my diet or exercise routine is not allowed. Personally, I keep resolving to make those changes in the future. I've been starting a diet tomorrow for years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So this desire to grow is met with an immediate assertion of the pointlessness of trying, that unless the change is instantaneous, you probably didn't really mean it. This was the first line of thinking giving shape to finding a vision for the new year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second influence was the inclusion of biographies into my reading. Being 29 going on 30, I've started to become much more aware of what others have accomplish at my age or younger. Biographies had not really appealed to me in the past, but this last year I made my way through a few. Namely, the books focused on Elon Musk, C.S. Lewis, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Seeing where each of these very different men were at my age and where life took them beyond that was instructive. Following the course of their lives, though Musk is of course still living, it is easy to see to see who they became was not and is not an overnight change. It was gradual. It was step by step. With each open door, with each little decision, with each opportunity or victory, smaller events kept moving a life forward, which results in something bigger. Indeed, we know that Rome wasn't built in a day, but for some reason we think that a person's life or soul or career or character should be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So then, with these two streams of thought in mind, what is the vision for this year? That is the question. It is this: Embracing the process. Knowing that we are not where we want to be yet, but looking forward and saying "It's ok, because I'm on the way there." That even if the change isn't immediate or overnight, that we're going somewhere. That's it's ok if the growth is incremental, maybe almost imperceptible at times. Embracing the process of growing. Allowing for it to be slow, gradual, step by step. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Two further words came to mind when thinking about how to actually go about embracing this process. The first is grace, an acknowledgment of where we are. Understanding that I am not perfect. Blaman speaks truth when she points out the persistent sense of our own inadequacies. I am painfully aware of my shortcomings and weaknesses. I start to become very aware of the person I will never be or things I will never be able to do. For example, I will never dunk a basketball on a standard hoop. It's just not going to happen. I've known that since I stopped growing at 5'6". But this accepting of these limitations not only in myself, but in others. In those same categories where we want the resolutions and vision to extend to: our communities, our organizations, students, country. Acknowledging where we are and saying, "It's ok, but we need to grow." Can you love it where it is?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second word is courage. Rather than just sitting where we are it takes courage to continue to move forward. To "straighten your back up" as Cornel West would say. To continue to push forward in the face of adversity. I think of my nephews learning to walk. It is a scary thing and they didn't learn it on the first attempt. I loved them before they could even sit up, much less crawl or walk. But we continue to encourage them to keep trying. And how do we respond or approach their fumbling, faltering attempts to walk? Do we say, "How dare you! You failed and will never learn to walk!". How silly. The same is true for students struggling to learn a different concept. "You didn't get it right away so you'll probably never learn it?" How odd. When embracing the process, there must be both. There must be grace for where they are, but courage to challenge them to go further, to be better, to continue to push. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That is my vision for the year. For myself, to be sure, but maybe for country as well. The current trend of trotting out accusations against others and the rhetoric seems to be focused on identifying all the problems. If any solution offered is not perfect or immediate, it must be resisted at all costs. Once again, how very silly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Maybe this year we need to embrace the incremental process. Maybe as we move forward, we celebrate the little victories in our self, in others, in our communities, in our organizations, in our cities, in our lives. No matter where we are on that journey, there is always something else we can offer. Let us give grace to ourselves and others in the now-and-the-not-yet of where hope to be. For there is a time and season for everything. May we accept where we are in that process, recognizing that each of us are on journey somewhere. </span></div>
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<a href="" name="wednesday"></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">a time to be born and a time to die,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-37566349974638372352016-02-07T13:30:00.000-05:002016-02-07T13:30:41.862-05:00About the Future<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">by </span><a href="http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/sharon-bryan/?utm_campaign=TWA%20Newsletter%20for%20January%2029%2c%202016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=The%20Writer%27s%20Almanac%20for%20January%2029%2c%202016&elq=55bf27ffdece426d81cf6d8a27b62c4e&elqCampaignId=17360&elqaid=20108&elqat=1&elqTrackId=16d9e9690efe44a6b20c5e518141112a"><span style="color: #850002; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sharon Bryan </span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Middle age</span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> refers more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">to landscape than to time:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">it’s as if you’d reached<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">the top of a hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">and could see all the way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">to the end of your life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">so you know without a doubt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">but that it <i>does</i> have,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">you can see your life whole,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">the horizon in the distance—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">the view makes you weep,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">of symmetry, like the earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">seen from space: you can’t help<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">like this forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
theme for the coming term is envisioning what we wish for our world, our
school, our lives. It is a coldly calculated effort to get us all to think
reflectively about what we want in the months ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So
I am compelled to do the same and confess that it is not so easy a task. Memory
and hope are often tied very closely and what I remember over the arc of my
life is troubling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a cynical
strand in my make-up that rises up when I think of what I will wish for and it
is caused by the high hopes that have marked moments in my life to date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me illustrate. In the aftermath of the civil rights movement it seemed as if
corners had been turned and gradually our nation was making good on its
promises of equality for all our citizens. As someone grounded in the Christian
faith I thought it noteworthy that finally religious commitments had forced
change in the body politic. What ever else it was the civil rights movement was
a triumph of Judeo-Christian values or so it seemed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quickly the ability to participate in the political process seemed to have been
assured. The media began to look like America in ways that would have been
impossible a few years earlier. Stereotypes gave way to real people of color.
Sanford and Son gave way to the Jeffersons and then the Huxtables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
of you will have seen the column in the NYT on the 1<sup>st</sup> by Rachel L.
Swarns “Trying to Separate Cliff Huxtable from Bill Cosby”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swarns explores what Cosby meant to America in
the 1980s when he was called “America’s Dad” the article is worth a look and I
can tell you that our family did gather each week to enjoy the experiences of
America’s family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
push back illustrated by voter ID efforts clearly shaped by political agendas
call into question<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the depth of our
efforts to secure democracy. The all white Oscar nominations, while at one
level a shallow measure of our commitment to equality, seem part and parcel of
an effort by some Americans to take back their nation by which they mean the
entitlements of a threatened and frightened Anglo majority. And Black Lives
Matter has forced us face our willingness to buy security by turning a blind
eye to wrongs committed on our behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have tools for understanding what happened to Bill Cosby. The deadly rise of
hubris, lust and the abuse of power do not know a color line. Judeo Christian
thought prepares us for the failures of the sometime righteous. And we are
complicit in his sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For too long we
have winked at notions that boys will be boys and we forget that boys can grow
up to be crude and exploitive men. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
wonder as well about other stars who have walked the same path as Cosby and who
have not been called out. We have had our share of sordid politicians; other
Bills come to mind and I am aware of similar scandals in England. It may be
that here righteousness is only served when there is another agenda in the mix<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am discouraged by our failure of political will and the fall of individuals I
would have preferred to be unsullied, but I am also aware of those we honor who
overcame the foibles of the flesh. Memory calls to us of our failures, hope
sets before us our dreams. And I still dream with hope for the future that it
will turn out as I dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me
conclude with the words of Frost: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have hope for the future?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">someone asked Robert Frost, toward
the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Yes, and even for the past, he
replied,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">that it will turn out to have been
all right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">for what it was, something we can
accept,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">mistakes made by the selves we had to
be,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">not able to be, perhaps, what we
wished,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">or what looking back half the time it
seems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">we could so easily have been, or
ought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The future, yes, and even for the
past,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">that it will become something we can
bear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And I too, and my children, so I
hope,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">of those albatrosses I sadly placed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">upon their tender necks. Hope for the
past,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">yes, old Frost, your words provide
that courage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">and it brings strange peace that
itself passes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">into past, easier to bear because<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">you said it, rather casually, as snow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">went on falling in Vermont years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Robert M. Randolph</span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-86055050132003907992015-11-24T16:32:00.001-05:002015-11-24T16:32:54.812-05:00Words After Paris<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Words in Response to Paris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">11/16/2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">My mantra these last few days
has been that the best way to defeat ISIS is to not play the game by their
rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want you to be afraid and
angry. When we are afraid we are paralyzed and we make bad decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what happened to our governor when he
let fear overcome his good judgment and he said he would not allow Syrian
refugees into Massachusetts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The president of France in
similar fashion gave in to his anger when he turned loose the dogs of war the
morning after the attacks. I am not a pacifist but I also know that the use of
force ought not to be a reaction but rather a calculated action taken with
thought and reflection. The use of force is also best exercised in cooperation
with others and with great attention to context.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The citizens of Paris offered
a wise response by going back out on the streets over the week-end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went to enjoy their coffee and to let
their enemies know that they were not afraid. The city of lights turned on its
lights. The response to terror is to be strong. Paris is a city that has known
horror over the last century but the people of Paris are resilient. They are not
afraid. They are strong; we are strong as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">My friend Courtney
Crummett<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who works in our libraries told
me a story about that famous theologian, philosopher and musician, Bob Marley
that is worth taking with you this evening. There was an attempt on his life in
Jamaica, but he survived though seriously wounded. He got out of bed to go to a
rally calling for an end of violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His friends were worried about how weak he was and they told him not to
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You have paid your dues. This is
not your fight.” But Marley said: “The people who want to
make the world a worse place do not take days off. Why should I?.” He </span><span style="font-size: 21px;">went to the rally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Bob Marley was strong; Paris
is strong. We are strong. We are not going to give in to our fear or to our
anger. We are going to be strong, thoughtful and deliberate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This a better way to live and we will not
fail to meet the challenges before us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Robert M. Randolph</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Chaplain to the Institute</span></div>
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-56449687312780784272015-11-03T09:39:00.000-05:002015-11-10T12:26:45.584-05:00Three Civic Virtues<style>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Tuesday November 3 |
8:30am | MIT Chapel</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Speaker: </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Brian Aull, Bahá'ì Chaplain, MIT</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">First Reading:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In this Cause
consultation is of vital importance, but spiritual conference and not the mere
voicing of personal views is intended. In France I was present at a session of
the senate, but the experience was not impressive. Parliamentary procedure
should have for its object the attainment of the light of truth upon questions
presented and not furnish a battleground for opposition and self-opinion.
Antagonism and contradiction are unfortunate and always destructive to truth.
In the parliamentary meeting mentioned, altercation and useless quibbling were
frequent; the result, mostly confusion and turmoil; even in one instance a
physical encounter took place between two members. It was not consultation but
comedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The purpose is to
emphasize the statement that consultation must have for its object the
investigation of truth. He who expresses an opinion should not voice it as
correct and right but set it forth as a contribution to the consensus of
opinion, for the light of reality becomes apparent when two opinions coincide.
A spark is produced when flint and steel come together. Man should weigh his
opinions with the utmost serenity, calmness and composure. Before expressing
his own views he should carefully consider the views already advanced by
others. If he finds that a previously expressed opinion is more true and
worthy, he should accept it immediately and not willfully hold to an opinion of
his own. By this excellent method he endeavors to arrive at unity and truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">‘Abdu’l</span><span style="font-family: "palatino bold italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Bold Italic";">‑</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bahá</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2 May 1912</span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Three Civic Virtues</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> - Brian Aull, MIT Bahá'ì Chaplain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So what did I learn this
summer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As some of you know, this
was the year I published <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Triad</i>, a
book on American democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I undertook
this because I have become very concerned about the direction American society
is taking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see a climate of hostile
and divisive partisanship, political corruption, and dysfunction in our
governing institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alongside this
are some very concerning problems:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>failing
school systems, high incarceration rates, racial tension, decaying
infrastructure, and a widening gap between the social classes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This is a faith-inspired
book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its themes are rooted in the idea
that as fellow human beings, we are members of an extended family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a teaching we find in all the great
religions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a deceptively simple
idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be one of those lofty ideals
that we dismiss as obvious on an abstract level but unattainable in practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So my task was to answer
the question: what would a democracy look like if it was inspired by this
ideal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What specifically are the
“better angels” of citizenship that could make this happen in the real
world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I boil these down to three
civic virtues in my book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the first
edition of the book came out at the end of January, I began having
conversations with others who share my concerns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the summer, I discovered that other
authors and activists had weighed in on these subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, there is a growing body of writings
on civic renewal; remarkably, when I examined their solutions, I found that
they rely on the same civic virtues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People of very different backgrounds and training were arriving at the
same answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of the summer,
I had a better understanding of the civic virtues, why they are important, and
what they look like in the real world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So what are they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First, there is what I
call <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">service</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The term usually connotes volunteer work, but
I use it more broadly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s personal
ownership of one’s role as a contributor to society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citizens are problem solvers, not just
recipients of benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An example is
the California Redistricting Commission, in which a large number of
civic-minded people arose to help redraw the electoral districts in the state,
resulting in a new map that won praise from electoral reform groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The second virtue is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">learning</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I’m using a term broadly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not academic learning, but civic
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A key part of this is an
approach to deliberation in which the participants seek to learn about the
problem they want to solve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of
fighting for preconceived outcomes based on ideological bias, the participants
gain new insights from the conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They figure out in a collaborative way what the outcomes should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An example is the Strong Starts for Children
program in New Mexico, whose recommendations for improving childhood education
in the state came out of “dialog circles” comprising ordinary citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The third virtue is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">community</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means building networks of
relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are different,
and a powerful new capacity is created when they work together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s particularly powerful when the relationships
bridge traditional divides of race or class or whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catalyzed by a group of scholars from Auburn
University, a racially diverse group of citizens began working together to
revitalize a segregated, economically depressed, and dilapidated Alabama
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially, their meetings had a
stiff and formal atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As their
work progressed, something happened to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing personal warmth melted away the estrangement,
and a strong group identity emerged that transcended race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This in turn made them effective in eliciting
cooperation and tapping diverse resources in the community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now imagine how
constituents like those in these examples might transform the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>incentives of political leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They send a powerful signal:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t tell us what you think we want to hear.
Tell us the truth, and then we’ll help you do a better job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The above examples and the
passages shared this morning from the Bahá’í writings reflect the longer-term
vision that inspired <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Triad</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is humankind’s transition from
political adolescence to political maturity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adversarial debate gives way to collaborative learning. Radical
individualism yields to a spirit of community. The blame game is replaced by
acts of service. Most importantly, the realization that the human race is one
family, endowed by its Creator with the capacity to build a progressive and
prosperous world civilization, emerges as the self-evident truth of the
twenty-first century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">(To learn more about The
Triad and read other pieces by Brian Aull, go to <a href="http://www.awakendemocracy.com/">http://www.AwakenDemocracy.com</a>)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Second Reading:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Be united in counsel, be
one in thought. Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer
than its yesterday. Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the
pageantry of wealth and riches. Take heed that your words be purged from idle
fancies and worldly desires and your deeds be cleansed from craftiness and
suspicion. Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of
evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavors be spent in promoting your
personal interest. Be generous in your days of plenty, and be patient in the
hour of loss. Adversity is followed by success and rejoicings follow woe. Guard
against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind,
whether young or old, whether high or low. Beware lest ye sow tares of
dissension among men or plant thorns of doubt in pure and radiant hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bahá'u'lláh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">c. 1873</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For just as each of us has
one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same
function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs
to all the others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Romans 12:4-5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Thousands of candles can
be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Buddh<b>a</b></span></div>
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-81442003352555120822015-07-08T17:11:00.000-04:002015-07-08T17:11:02.631-04:00The Kingdom Comes in Parables<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Memorial
Church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">July
5<sup>th</sup>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Good
morning. If you are visiting Memorial Church let me welcome you. This place of
worship and teaching at the heart of a great university is unique and important
in American life and in the life of this city. This week-end it is a good place
to be and it is important to reflect together and to share prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jan and I
always enjoy our times here and this week-end is the anniversary of our move to
Boston from New Haven a very long time ago. We came for a year thinking that we
would then be drawn west and we are still here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Beware of
decisions made off handedly as they can sometimes be the most important
decisions you make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Let us
pray: Lord, may the words from my mouth edify and may the intentions of my
heart be appropriate for this hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Amen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Our texts
for the morning are at one level quite appropriate for the heart of a
university for they remind those of us who are parents to beware of what we
pray for. The hand we are dealt when we bring children into the world, when we
bring children into our lives in any fashion, often plays out in ways that
confound and surprise us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">David is 30
when he is called to rule the united kingdoms of Israel and Judah; it is some
years after he had been called by Samuel to rule a portion of the divided
kingdom. You want your sons and daughters to succeed, but no one in his family
thought this was what would happen. They are astonished even as they are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>honored, but given the course of the next 40
years we know that at least someone thought or said: wait a minute, are you
sure you want to be this successful?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark is the
gospel we are reading for a period on Sundays during this summer if we follow
the common Lectionary. Tradition has it that John Mark wrote the book while in
Rome and that it was drawn from the preaching of Peter. There are few actual
words spoken by Jesus. His teaching depends on parables which by definition
call on us to seek out understanding. These are stories that make a point and
may be carried in memory to be called upon when needed or when insight offers
new conclusions that bring new insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are told that those closest to Jesus understood although their
actions later tend to make us wonder if that is true. Others are left to
ponder. We with the benefit of history can think through these tales as we do
this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As Jesus
moves through Galilee he draws close to his home and we get a sense that all is
not right with his family. His mother and brother come to watch him worried
that all is not right. They are concerned about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are afraid he has lost his mind. It is
one thing to wish for a child to be a Torah scholar, but where did he get these
notions? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Think for a
moment of your dreams for your children, of your dreams for yourself. We have
so many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poet Freyla Manfred sums up
the end of so many of our dreams;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Imagine
This<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Imagine this: only one leg and lucky to have it,,,,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Smoothing down the sidewalk on a magic moving chair,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Teaching every child you meet the true story<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of this sad, sweet, tragic, Fourth of July world.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And what is
the true story? Sounds a bit like the musings of a Marathon bombing
survivor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true story is that things
often do not go as hoped in this “sweet, sad, tragic, 4<sup>th</sup> of July
world”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His family had hopes for Jesus;
he might become a great teacher. More simply they wanted him to do well, have a
family, live near home and here he is coming into town on a river of rumors,
stirring the gossip in the neighborhood with stories of what he has done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
preaching in his own religious community left his audience gasping: not at his
wisdom but at his arrogance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When told
his mother and brothers are there he redefines family: “who are my mother and
my brothers? And looking around on those near him, he said, “Here are my
mothers and my brothers!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How often have
we heard these stories as children become adults and redefine their lives in
“this sad, sweet, tragic, 4<sup>th</sup> of July world.”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Where did you get these notions, they asked?”
the question is appropriate and in keeping with the tenor of the gospel of
Mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Held to be the earliest of the
gospels, Mark is also a minimalist text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The book tends to offer few details, The other gospels expand and fill
in gaps in information but in Mark the story unfolds in short, terse paragraphs
leaving us to go elsewhere for details. We do well to remember than the church
in Mark’s day had no place else to go. It is only later that we enjoy multiple
witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And now he
is in town teaching at the local synagogue. He has come with tales of healing
and parables about seeds sown and an uncertain harvest. He speaks of the
smallest seed growing into the largest tree. People wonder who speaks for him.
Sometimes those whom he has aided have been told to tell no one: “remain
silent, tell no one.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the word
is tell every one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even healed a
woman who was not Jewish and left a leader of the synagogue waiting while he
did so. Now he gave life to Jairus’ daughter, but the symbolism spoke volumes.
The “A” list had been turned upside down. The other, the stranger was as
important as the conventionally religious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">His loudest
fan was a man who was said to have been insane. He had gone around the
neighborhood telling people Jesus had made him whole. He was about as welcome
as Donald Trump would be at a celebration of Cinco de Mayo. What is a mother to
do in this “sad, sweet, tragic 4<sup>th</sup> of July world.”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Comparing
the world of Jesus’ day to our 4<sup>th</sup> of July world may be a bit
misleading. The 4<sup>th</sup> of July exudes triumphalism; there was little of
that in Nazareth. We know how the story ends, but forget how it began: in
defeat. Mark leaves out the details, but the prospects are not good. Jesus is
said to have been nearly powerless in his home regions; only a few told stories
of being healed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When he
sends out the 12 on a mission they go not as conquerors, but rather as those
who may be ignored. If so, they are told not to act with power but rather to
move on to where they are welcome. Go on, do your work. What he is specific
about is that they are not to seek out the plush places, the comfortable B and
Bs but to stay among the people and do their work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This 4<sup>th</sup>
of July we are grappling with enormous dislocation. The stock-markets hang on
the results of the Greek vote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We live
in fear of the other named <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isis. And we
talk of Jesus who came home and was rejected. It is one thing to be rejected by
strangers, but these were people who knew him. And yet he continued to teach
and heal in a sad, sweet, tragic, 4<sup>th</sup> of July world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe
things would be clearer if he had spoken more pointedly rather than<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>using parables, but people were challenged by
them: looking but not seeing, listening but not understanding and when they did
see; when did understand they turned the world upside down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And if
Jesus came to Cambridge and taught in parables what might he say to us:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There was a
Bible study in a large city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The great
and the small were gathered to share<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Scripture,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And a
stranger came in and sat with them and challenged them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When he
could not bear their words, he took<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Out his gun
and killed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The nation
was shaken and uncertain, but the people of the city were steadfast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There were
those still in pain who forgave the stranger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And some
took down their flags, the long standing symbols of oppression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-26482090157558999002015-06-18T08:29:00.000-04:002015-06-19T14:15:02.497-04:00Lavender Graduation: A charge to the LGBT graduates of MIT May 8, 2015<div class="MsoNormal">
Lavender Graduation<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since Abigail asked me to speak I
have thought a good deal about what to say. I realized over the last few years
that my theme has essentially been the same. I want you all to recognize how
proud we are of you and what you have accomplished. And I want you to know that
we have no illusions about the resilience it has taken to reach today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can cherry pick illustrations of progress,
but I cannot forget the obstacles that continue to crop up: tensions with
families, significant slights, the fear that is always present about whether or
not acceptance is real or feigned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are graduating and like
parents we would like to be sure you are safe so my inclination is to tell you
that there are more supportive resources out there than you may know about. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But I remember a poem by Maria Mazziotti Gillan:<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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At eleven, my granddaughter looks like my daughter did,<o:p></o:p></div>
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The slender body, that thin face, the grace<o:p></o:p></div>
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With which she moves. When she visits, she sits with my
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They have hot chocolate together<o:p></o:p></div>
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And talk. The way my granddaughter moves her hand, the <o:p></o:p></div>
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Concentration with which she does everything, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Knocks me back to the time when I sat with my daughter at<o:p></o:p></div>
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This table and we talked and I watched the grace<o:p></o:p></div>
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With which she moved her hands, the delicate way she lifted<o:p></o:p></div>
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The heavy hair back behind her ear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My daughter is grown now, married in a fairy-tale wedding,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Divorced, something inside<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her broken, healing slowly. I look at my grand-daughter and <o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to save her, as I was not able<o:p></o:p></div>
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To save my daughter. Nothing is that simple, all our plans,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carefully made, thrown into a cracked<o:p></o:p></div>
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pile by the way love betrays us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know that there are strong
communities of religious folk who are open and affirming. There are strong
communities of progressive thinkers who are not religious who are open and
affirming. I want to assure you that what you need can be found so you can navigate
the roiling waters of life after MIT. That is what I would like to say but two
recent bits of information crossed my path and made me think that I was being a
bit too sanguine. I understand that love sometimes betrays us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first bit of data that
challenged my thinking came from reading about Mary Bonauto, the talented Maine
resident who has argued the cause of marriage rights up to the Supreme Court.
Bonauto said that when she first started arguing the case she turned to her
religious community for support. She loved her religious community but she
realized that she would have to go elsewhere for support. That was over a decade
ago, and some things have evolved and changed in such communities, but it still
can be a crap shoot. I do not want to mislead you. Things we love can betray
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The second jarring note was sounded
by E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post writing about Senator Chris Coons of
Delaware who spoke to the Secular Coalition of America whose mission is “to
amplify the diverse and growing voice of the nontheistic community in the
United States.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He talked of his growing
unease with “rigid certainty” on questions related to religious truth and of
the pain and discomfort caused by outdated teachings and moral codes. But then
he went on to tell of his own experience as a Senator and a person of faith who
tried to speak to the progressive community at Yale Law School about his faith
commitments and was greeted by what he called “real bigotry.” For many
progressives, “accepting someone of expressed faith was one of the hardest
moments of tolerance and inclusion for them.” But the Senator is hard nosed and
as a result he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pushed on and learned of
the origins of the experiences of these progressive folk who had personal “experiences
of deep pain and of alienation that had driven a big wedge between them and
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His conclusion was deceptively
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each other.” And that I have concluded is the message I need to leave with you
today. Despite your accomplishments; despite our desire to protect you, we
cannot guarantee that the path tomorrow will be smooth, but we have confidence
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adversity and to brush aside the betrayals of love and other experiences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So while I would like to send you
forth with words of comfort and encouragement, I am going to have to tell you
that we need you to continue to be courageous and challenging of the status quo. <span style="line-height: 150%;">We must find ways of “getting past some of our misunderstandings of each other.”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> It is tempting to turn inward, to wall ourselves off from a culture that causes
needless pain, but we must continue to engage and challenge that culture. That
is your charge. We have faith in you and we will be here to support you.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Now, go with our blessings.</span><br />
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-83671764094527123142015-05-12T11:58:00.000-04:002015-05-12T11:58:19.148-04:00The Positive Power of a Simple Greeting<div class="MsoNormal">
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Morrie Schwartz was a Sociology Professor at Brandeis University
who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1990’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did a host of interviews about life, dying and other fascinating
topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were published in the book,
<u>Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson</u>
by Mitch Albom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it quite
applicable to use excerpts from one of Morrie’s “Tuesdays” interviews, i.e.,
“The Power of Saying Hello,” in my “Tuesdays in the Chapel” presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire article can be found at torah.org,
@1995-2007, Project Genesis, Inc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Reading #1: Excerpt <o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<b><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Power of Saying Hello<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Truly noticing others is fundamental to
their self-worth</span></b><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">" ...</span></i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">We all need
recognition. We need to feel that we matter. This doesn't mean that we should
be running for glory and honor, but every human being has a basic and natural
desire to be acknowledged as significant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And we can give some of this
significance to others simply by greeting them properly. We may not put much
thought into how and when we say hello to someone, and we should ponder it more
deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The first thing to realize, which we
certainly don't always think about, is that when we greet people with a 'good
morning', we are actually giving them a blessing. We are telling them that we
hope they will have a good morning. This is why, if you ever meet a grumpy
person who responds to your 'good morning,' with a line such as, 'Who said it
was good?', the response, besides being rude, is actually inaccurate. We are
not defining the morning by saying 'good morning' rather, we are offering a
blessing that it should be a good morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">All greetings are meant in this way.
The classical 'shalom aleichem' means literally that 'peace should be upon
you', an excellent blessing which we always need…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The explanation would appear to be that
when we see a fellow human being, we are obliged to acknowledge his value and
importance. ...But even in the greeting, you display your respect for the
person even more when you offer him a blessing that he should succeed, that
things should go well, that he should have a 'good morning.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And the way in which we greet someone
is also important. ...We are not supposed to give someone a quick hello;
rather, we should give them eye contact, thought, and genuine loving
attention. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Morrie Schwartz did this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I came to love the way Morrie lit
up when I entered the room. He did this for many people, I know, but it was his
special talent to make each visitor feel that the smile was unique. . .And it
didn't stop with the greeting. When Morrie was with you, he was really with
you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only
person in the world. How much better would people get along if their first
encounter each day were like this—instead of a grumble from a waitress, or a
bus driver, or a boss?</span></i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'I believe in fully present,' Morrie
said. 'That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking
to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I
am not thinking about something we said last week. I'm not thinking of what's
coming up this Friday….I am talking to you. I am thinking about you."
(Pages 135-136)…"</span></i><span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re not from around here, are you?” or “Do
I KNOW you?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have gotten such
responses a lot during my almost 18 years in Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends warned me against moving to
Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said that people
here have a reputation for being unfriendly and typically ignore each
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chuckled in disbelief and
accepted the job at MIT anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much to
my surprise and disappointment, my friends were right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not about everybody in Massachusetts, and
certainly not about most of the residents being unfriendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over time, I learned that I just needed to first
find a way to get their attention to open the channels of communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Even as recently as last month, I
was walking down Mass. Ave. with my colleague, Kate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We passed by a middle-aged gentleman walking
in the opposite direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my usual
fashion, I looked him in the eyes as we approached him, smiled, and said: “Hi!
How are you doing?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I obviously shocked
him because he continued to walk past us, then stopped in his tracks about 20
feet away, turned around and asked: “You’re not from around here, are
you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kate and I looked at each other
and laughed as we exchanged a few friendly words with the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked him something like: “Why would you
ask me something like that?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
responded with something to the effect that: “People here do not greet each
other; they typically act like they don’t even see you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We agreed that was a shame, said goodbye, and
continued on our respective journeys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
could see that my simple greeting brought a little bit of joy to this
stranger’s day, as it did to mine, and likely to Kate’s as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Although I get the question: “You’re
not from around here, are you?” framed in a positive way a little more often
these days, I am at a loss as to why this is so challenging for some
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, I am only trying to
acknowledge a fellow human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
believe that one never knows how a simple, warm greeting can impact another
person’s day; or sometimes, their entire life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know that my day always gets a bit better when someone returns one of
my greetings with a kind nod, a warm smile, or a pleasantly surprised
look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their eyes light up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a great feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better yet, I am elated when a stranger
greets me first, which is not too often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not to worry, I shall continue to greet people in an effort to make “my”
day, even if I don’t make “their” day with my simple greetings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have greeted strangers in and
around MIT since I came here in 1998.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am happy to report that many of those “strangers” are now valued colleagues and
alumni whom I highly respect and whom I hope respect me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have taught me lessons as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, a wonderful student, who has
long since graduated, raised my awareness (actually, my lack thereof), of the
effect of my simple greetings on others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day I greeted her as I rushed past her in the hallway with my usual:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Hi!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How are you doing?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She responded
by asking me why I never stopped to allow her to tell me how she was
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never occurred to me that my
choice of words might be interpreted as an invitation to stop and share what
was going on in an individual’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
learned a great lesson that day, i.e., people need not only recognition through
greetings, they sometimes need a little companionship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to never pass up such opportunities anymore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In closing, simple, warm greetings
can make people realize that they are not alone in this vast universe; that
they can see beyond the tiny screens on their iPhones, hear beyond the sounds
coming from their huge headsets, and hopefully notice that they are being and
deserve to be acknowledged as members of our special community – namely the
human race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Morrie Schwartz said:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Reading #2: Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">“...We can all be a little more
sensitive to other people's needs—especially their need for recognition and
companionship. This is how we help them realize their tremendous value as human
beings."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-35317248496409381572015-04-28T09:54:00.002-04:002015-04-28T09:54:54.013-04:00It matters who you spend time with!<div>
Tuesdays in the Chapel</div>
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April 14, 2015</div>
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Reading:<br /><div class="Body" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; text-indent: .25in;">
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never seen. It was unremarkable, a gas station on one corner, a small
convenience store on the other. The telephone poles and the bark of the trees
were the same cardboard color, and most of the trees had dropped their leaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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building. It was pale yellow brick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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set.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="Body" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; text-indent: .25in;">
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<div class="Body" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; text-indent: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Century Gothic";">“What? I like knowing you’ve eaten, that’s all. You
have to take care of yourself, Charley.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the
purest love you will ever know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; text-indent: .25in;">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Century Gothic";">“You mean before I died?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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saw a wave of resignation pass over her face. I believe, at that moment, we
were both thinking how things might be different if we did them over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Body" style="line-height: 115%; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; text-indent: .25in;">
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erased her from sight. I felt heat on my face, as if the sun were baking down
on it. Then, once again, that booming voice:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I blinked hard. Suddenly, I was blocks behind my mother, as if she’d kept
walking and I’d stopped. I blinked again. She was even farther ahead. I could
barely see her anymore. I stretched forward, my fingers straining, my shoulders
pulling from their sockets. Everything was spinning. I felt myself trying to
call her name, the word vibrating in my throat. It took all the strength I had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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calm, as if nothing had happened. We glided back to where we’d been.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">"A Third and Final Visit" from <i>For One More Day </i>by Mitch Albom</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px;">, p. 174-175<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I believe that the One Thing that is most
important is the time and the people you spend it with. You can't control time
- but you can control the people that you choose to be with as time goes
by. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I think that this is the very thing that Mitch
Albom is getting at. As time goes by, we become swept up in the
"should's" and the "could's" and - sometimes - more focused
on other people's "shoulds", "coulds", "haves"
and "have nots". I find that the more years that add up - I refuse to
say fall away - I try to fill life as much as possible with those people who
count. Only if...work didn't get in the way. If the "next best thing that
I know that should be happening to me right now" wasn't getting in the
way. If worrying about what others have and what I don't wasn't getting in the
way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The one thing that is most important is the people
that surround you. It can be your family, your friends, your teachers, your
colleagues, your students, your mentors. It can be people that you have known
for your whole life or people that you met just yesterday. There is something
to be said for folks in their 90's and 100's that didn't wish that they had
worked more, but that they had spent more time with the people that mattered to
them, the people that they loved. The people that wanted them to be the very
best that they could be - that ironically, probably pushed them to do the great
things that took up so much of our precious time away from them. We get caught
up in our own troubles awfully quickly, don't we? Take Charley’s father for
example - here was a person he had worshipped and looked up to, and then his
father ended up disappointing him. However, his mother was there all
along, as frustrating as she might have been to him, she remained steadfast in
her presence. Do you know someone in your life like Charley’s mother?
That no matter how much you might push that person away - they snap back to you
like a rubber band right when you need it? Can you think of someone in your
life that forgave you and that loved you unconditionally, no matter how much
you might have hurt them? That when you may have been down in the dumps and hit
rock bottom - you forgot that they were there - until they were? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your life. If you were able to go back in time and see them again - what would
be the first thing that you do? What would you say to them? How would you spend
your time with them? We probably won't get the opportunity that Mitch had - but
what if we did? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I would tell my grandmother thank you for the
Cabbage Patch kid on Christmas and the homemade tuna fish sandwiches and
letting me eat Cool Whip out of the container. I would thank my grandpa for
letting me play in his garden in the summer, pretending I owned a flower shop and
for using his house as a great hide and seek spot. I would thank my boyfriend
from high school for making me laugh, for campaigning for my votes when I
got Homecoming Queen junior year. I would ask my dissertation advisor about
what she was afraid of - she always seemed so sure of herself! - what made her
scared, about her failures in life. I would ask friends that my classmates and
I had lost too soon -what was your favorite memory with your friends - what are
your dreams? How can I help you.... If I had one more day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that make me laugh, that fill me with so much emotion that it's impossible to
not feel like I'm truly alive. I'm so blessed to have those people in my life
--- whether it's here, back in my hometown, or across the country. It is those
people that are the most important. That have seen me at my worst - my best -
my failures and successes. It is those people that keep me coming back swinging
each day - no matter what life tosses me. So we can't control time. But we can
control the choices we make within it. What you allow is what will continue.
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><b>Reading:</b></span></span></div>
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to. I waited for this chance. And I’m glad it’s come, now that it’s done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can remember every moment of that time with my mother, the people we saw, the
things we discussed. It was so ordinary in so many ways, but as she said, you
can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. You may think me
crazy, that I imagined the whole thing. But I believe this in the deepest part
of my soul: My mother, somewhere between this world and the next, gave me one
more day, the day I’d wanted so badly, and she told me all that I’ve told you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Century Gothic";">“What causes an echo?” she once quizzed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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persistence of sound after the source has stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Century Gothic";">When it’s
quiet and other sounds are absorbed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is such a previous thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair, and that
was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to
your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are so many details: the hospital stay, the treatment I received, where I’ve
been. Let’s just say, for not, that I was lucky on many levels. I’m alive. I
didn’t kill anyone. I have been sober every day since—although some days are
harder than others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mother saved my life. I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold
you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll
never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you
otherwise wouldn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple,
and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is
always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours began. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-27632280970277711122015-04-06T13:26:00.001-04:002015-04-06T13:26:26.656-04:00On Hope: Can suffering lead to more and not less?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Shawshank Redemption</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1994)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Forget?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Red</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside. You'd better get used to that idea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been thinking a lot about hope recently--I think prompted by the recent deaths at MIT. While we can never fully know or understand what was going on for Matthew or Christina, it seems to me that a person would not choose to end their life unless they are truly feeling hope</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">less.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But as Red from the Shawshank Redemption points out, hope is a dangerous thing. I wholeheartedly agree with him. This is something I experienced at MIT.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I showed up to MIT as a freshman, I was filled with hope. MIT was my dream school. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life, but MIT represented limitless possibilities. And beyond just academics, I was experiencing friendships on a new level, finding exhilarating connections with all these amazing people. I entered into a long-term relationship and it dwarfed my previous romantic experiences. And to my surprise, I found myself on a sports team, and for the first time in my life, was filled with hope for what my physical body could be. I was on a seemingly never-ending gravy train of hope for the the first half of MIT.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, on Reg Day at the beginning of my Junior year, I got a phone call from back home in Texas. There had been a car accident. My father had been killed. Obviously, that’s devastating news for anyone to receive and it certainly was for me. Immediately I was on a plane to go home and be with my family. We had the funeral and time together, but pretty soon I was faced with the inevitable question: “now what?” Do I go back to school? Do I stay at home for a semester? What would I do with myself at home? I had no framework for addressing questions like these.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I knew that if I was going to go back, I needed to do it soon. I had already missed over a week of school and falling behind is never a good idea at MIT. I decided to come back. I reasoned that my Dad would not want me to miss out on my life. And I didn’t want to miss out either. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next couple of years were a blur. A constant frenzy of unceasing, frantic activity. Subconsciously, I had chosen a simple strategy for dealing with grief. Avoid it. Leave no room for it. Be so constantly busy every moment of everyday that there is no mental or emotional bandwidth for grief. It won’t surprise you to know that MIT was rather accommodating to this strategy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And this strategy actually worked pretty well, at least externally. My grades went up, I was elected to be president of my fraternity, I was competitive in a very demanding varsity sport. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But, increasingly, my internal world was falling apart. By the time I graduated, I was emotionally bankrupt. All that hope that had been propelling me forward was gone. My passion for science had gotten crowded out or tainted somehow. My friendship circle was getting smaller and smaller. My dating relationship which I had assumed was heading toward marriage was actually headed toward ruin thanks to my emotional toxicity. Even the sport I was doing, which I loved, had somehow become an unhealthy addiction. I was quickly becoming very isolated. I was bubbling over with anger and bitterness and my life felt void of purpose. In a word, I felt hopeless.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of this was the context for a very unexpected spiritual journey that I was about to embark on. I don’t have time to tell all of that story right now, but, spoiler alert, it ends with me becoming a chaplain and the happy, healthy individual you see standing here today. Hope has played (and still plays) a very important role in that journey. Strangely, hope was both the destination and the road that took me there. The end and the means.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hope gets a lot of attention in the Bible. Looking back, I can see some of the Bible’s insights on hope borne out in my own story in pretty striking ways. So, for instance, there’s this really famous, inspiring-sounding line about hope in the New Testament.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s in a letter this guy Paul, who was an early faith entrepreneur, wrote to some faith communities in Rome. It’s printed on your sheet, but I have to warn you, it risks sounding too good to be true and feeling disconnected from reality. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...And let us rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but let us also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I won’t be able to unpack all of what’s here, but I’ll offer a few comments. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, this passage confidently asserts that hope DOES NOT disappoint us. I wonder how you feel about that? Does that ring true? I have a somewhat visceral response to this. Especially if I’m in the mindset of those first few years after losing my dad. I can feel that this has got to be a typo because hope ABSOLUTELY disappoints us. It is in fact because we hope that experience disappointment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So maybe this contradiction means we just need to dismiss these ideas altogether. But, there’s another possibility too, which I hope you’ll consider. It’s the possibility that Paul is talking about something different here. This passage seems to indicate that hope is much more than a feeling, much more than the greeting-card sentiment that I tend to regard it as. The hope that’s described here is not particularly easy to come by. It’s more rare, more valuable, more robust and more powerful than we might expect. It’s the final product of a long and difficult process. So you can see this idea of hope being the destination, where we want to end up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I think hope is also the path that we take to get there. And it’s an unexpected, maybe even “hidden” path. We get the first clue when Paul says “let us rejoice in our sufferings”. Seriously? Who does that? If we can pull of rejoicing, is the suffering really that bad? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But this supremely counterintuitive act of choosing joy and gratitude in the midst of suffering--to whatever degree we can pull it off--I think will start us down this path that is hope. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We see the path starts with suffering, then endurance then character and then, finally, hope. I’m not precisely sure how all those steps work, but one thing seems clear to me. This is not our typical human response to hardship. This seems to suggest somehow resisting that overwhelming temptation we all feel to avoid pain in one way or another. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So maybe the endurance described is not just surviving difficult, painful circumstances, but it’s actually </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enduring</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">suffering, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experiencing the pain brought on by those circumstances. It’s not masochism, but it is fully facing up to the suffering that’s coming at us, not dodging it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I think he’s talking about this same kind of approach to suffering. Instead of going with our first instinct to avoid the pain, we mourn it, we actually feel it. Then we will experience comfort. But if we try to dodge it, we’ll just end up in limbo, with the suffering still lurking in the shadows and no experience of comfort. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link #1 - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis CK Hates Cell Phones</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (YouTube)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So mourning leads to comfort, but, I think Paul is promising something even better than comfort. He says that hope does not disappoint us because “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit” which I think simply refers to an intimate experience of God’s love, a deep connection. I know this can sound exclusive, only applying to those who believe in God, but I don’t think it is and I’ll speak to that in just a sec.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brief 36 years on this earth has convinced me that all of life boils down to relationships, to connection. Our connection with other people, our connection to ourselves and our connection to God or the universe or reality or whatever may be out there that’s bigger than us. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So while our circumstances are always uncertain, always holding the potential for all kinds of pain, there’s a way in which suffering is not only NOT a threat to our connection, but can actually enhance, strengthen and even supercharge that connection, which is perhaps our deepest desire. And when it does, disappointment is no longer a threat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And speaking of connection, this paradoxical response to suffering of simultaneously rejoicing and mourning is pretty hard to pull off alone. It’s the sort of thing where the help of trusted friends and a higher power if you believe in one is really indispensable. So similarly to hope, connection is both the destination and the means to get there. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But, clearly, not all of us at MIT believe in God. Well, more and more I’m coming to see that the benefits of hope and connection are not limited to those with a particular set of beliefs. So I’m very much hopeful that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anyone</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who’s so inclined can experience these dynamics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To this end, maybe we can borrow a page from the Alcoholic’s Anonymous playbook. Looking to a “higher power” for help is an essential, non-negotiable element of the 12 steps. Yet many secular folks who don’t subscribe to the idea of a higher power have been immensely helped by twelve-step programs. They’ve been given a very generous latitude to interpret that higher power in the way that feels most true and honest to them--even if it’s in a thoroughly non-theistic way. For some, it’s an undefined metaphysical goodness. For others it’s simply the universe or reality as it is. For some, it is the community offered by AA or the fellowship and goodwill of humankind. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I’m hopeful you can figure out a way that this works for you. If you’ll indulge me again, here’s one more link to check out. It’s a post from the MIT Admissions Blogs where an MIT student tells her story of a very powerful experience along these lines.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link #2 - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IHTFParadise - A Journey of Depression at MIT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (MIT Admissions Blogs)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inevitably, there will be painful moments ahead for all of us. I wonder if walking down the path of hope, rejoicing and mourning with whomever will join us, will take us to a place of deeper hope and deeper connection than we would have thought possible. </span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-20099353384160298922015-02-24T16:57:00.000-05:002015-02-24T16:59:23.945-05:00A Winter Word<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">And where I
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Dear love, these fingers that had known
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">A Word for Winter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">February 24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Martin Marty, a church
historian at the University of Chicago, now semi-retired,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>holds that winter is a season of the heart as
much as it is a season of the weather. He cites the poem we have shared this
morning as an effort by the poet John Crowe Ransom to tie the two winters
together as “two evils, monstrous either one apart, that possessed him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">We are experiencing the
reality of the winter of the climate in its full fury. A friend posted on face-book
this morning a picture of the school door where his children attend with the
light above the door and the walls of snow towering on either side above the
height of the door: “school is open” the caption read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">We know the evil of winter
weather too well as February draws to a close. All the records for snow and
continued cold weather are broken and we lean toward the solstice that declares
that winter is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before that when we
meet on the 10<sup>th</sup> of March we will be able to have enjoyed two days
of daylight savings time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten days later
the spring equinox will arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">As difficult as the winter
is, Marty argues that the winter of the soul is even more difficult. We have
learned that cold wears on us and wears us down. We have gotten more use out of
our long underwear this year than in any winter in memory but it is the winter
of absence that tears at the heart: ”A cry of Absence, Absence in the heart.”
His reflections were shaped by the loss of his wife and he turned to the Psalms
for comfort and direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Our reading of Psalm 90
speaks of transience, of things passing away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This psalm sketches the passage of time from autumn to winter as the
movement into the time of absence. The Psalmist writes of God: You turn us
into dust. We are like the grass that flourishes and then is burned up. Our
life times are to be measured in years spend in toil and trouble. Some of us
have reached three score and ten, but all of us have a sense of how fast things
progress. Years are soon gone and we fly away. To put it more bluntly, life if
short and then you die. And in the cold of winter that seems easy to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The Psalmist does not talk of
simple solutions to this complex problem. He does not propose some hereafter
where things will be set right. Some may live in perpetual summer never seeing
the dark clouds or feeling the wintery wind. That is not our lot, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is not our experience. And it is not simply
an issue of weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Some of you watched the
Oscars on Sunday night and the most poignant moment always comes when they note
the passing of great men and women in the entertainment business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were the names: Robin Williams, Mike Nichols
and who could not smile remembering the pleasure each brought to us in the
exercise of their craft and now only absence, absence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The ritual I go through each
year is the ritual of updating my address book noting those who have passed
away. I remember Dan Langdale who had such influence on our admissions office
here at MIT and who led the office at Cal Tech. Dan enjoyed playing softball
more than he enjoyed admissions but he enjoyed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>even more cajoling me with the responsibilities we assumed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when the admissions work was done: “We screen
‘em; you Dean ‘em” he would gleefully tell me and I remember his pleasure at
one member of the Random Hall community who arrived here in Boston on a train
from Dallas where he had just been released from prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">I remember Danielle
Guichard-Ashbrook who, over the course of her time here, taught us all how to
better understand the wider world we live in. She had most recently calmly
given me a lesson in Russian geography and politics when I had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>asked about whether we had information on
Chechen students. “A cry of Absence, Absence in the heart/ And in the wood the
furious winter blowing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">The antidote to winter and to
loss is not to be found in prescriptions although the edge of depression can be
dulled with medicine. In the depths of winter we are buoyed by the beauty of
the sun rising low on a cold morning. Our kitchen in Rockport was built to take
advantage of the earliest light and our pleasure at seeing the light above the
oaks is only matched by the warmth of seeing it from Cambridge as it rises
above the Prudential. Beauty prompts wonder and wonder gives hope in the depths
of the winters of the weather and of the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the age of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>satellites and the boy
asked “Which ones did we put up there?” We know the answer to that question: very few. </span></div>
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work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established, what are human beings
that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them. Yet you have made
them little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. ” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Ps. 8:3-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Wonder lays the groundwork
for hope and in the depths of winter, wonder at the beauty that surrounds us
even in the dark of winter gives way to hope. Viktor Frankl found hope in the
camps where death seemed to reign and so it seem to me that we can find hope in
the depths of the winter of both weather and the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May it be so.</span><br />
<br />
Psalm 90<br />
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Lord, you have been our dwelling </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>place</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>In all generations.</div>
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Before the mountains were brought</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>forth,</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>or ever you had formed the earth</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>and the world,</div>
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from everlasting to everlasting</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>you are God.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You turn us back to dust,</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>and say, "turn back, you </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>mortals."</div>
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<br /></div>
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For a thousand years in your sight</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>are like yesterday when it is past,</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>or like a watch in the night.</div>
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You sweep them away; they are</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>like a dream,</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>like grass that is renewed in the</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>morning;</div>
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In the morning it flourishes and is</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>renewed;</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>in the evening it fades and withers.</div>
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For we are consumed by your</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>anger;</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>by your wrath we are</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>overwhelmed.</div>
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<br /></div>
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You have set our iniquities</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>before you,</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>our secret sins in the light of</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>your countenance.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For all our days pass away under </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>your wrath;</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>our years come to an end like </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>a sigh.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The days of our life are seventy </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>years,</div>
<div>
<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>or perhaps eighty, if we are</div>
<div>
<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>strong;</div>
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even then their span is only toil</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>and trouble;</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>they are soon gone, </div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>and we fly away.</div>
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<br /></div>
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…so teach us to count our days</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>that we may gain a wise heart…</div>
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<br /></div>
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...…O prosper the work of our hands.</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Robert M Randolph</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Chaplain to the Institute</span></div>
Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-73500739476511266052014-12-24T14:45:00.000-05:002014-12-24T14:47:07.698-05:00Our Differences Connect Us<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reading:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A Minor Bird<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have wished a bird would fly away,<br />
And not sing by my house all day;<br />
<br />
Have clapped my hands at him from the door<br />
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.<br />
<br />
The fault must partly have been in me.<br />
The bird was not to blame for his key.<br />
<br />
And of course there must be something wrong<br />
In wanting to silence any song. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt;">-- Robert Frost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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The theme for this year is “one thing that is most
important.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If someone had asked me this
in my youth, I’m sure I’d have talked about music, my first great passion and
my undergraduate major.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still care a
lot about music but today my answer is different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two things happened to me in midlife, one large
and one small, which permanently changed the way I saw myself and the world
around me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The big thing that happened was my husband and my taking up
residency in an exotic and alien land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not referring to the year we spent overseas when he had a Fulbright
grant, although was fun too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I’m
referring to the rare opportunity we had to live for an extended period among
people who were truly different from us: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the residents of Random Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you might think that at least we shared a
language and many customs with most Randomites, but in many cases you’d be
wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As undergraduates Chris was a
poet and I a singer; at Random, we came to live among students whose lives were
centered on math, electrical engineering, and physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The residents and their new housemasters
didn’t always understand each other’s jokes, idioms, or cultural
references.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll never really understand
the work our students do; but in the years among them I have learned to
appreciate the beauty of mathematical concepts, laws of physics, and elegant
feats of engineering, even without truly understanding any of the details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve come to understand that discovery,
invention, and innovation are, in a sense, just music different from my own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The small thing that happened took place before we moved to
Random Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In those days we lived in
the Lower Mills section of Dorchester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a long commute, especially the last four years when I shared the
trip with our son who attended a daycare center in Harvard Square from the time
he was about a year old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Commuting with
a toddler who was not especially easy-going was a challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was lucky he’d nap, and he usually
enjoyed a nice bottle of milk, and if all else failed I would read to him –
pretty much anything to keep him from disturbing all our fellow passengers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One night, something kept me very late at MIT and my husband
must have picked Simon up from daycare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At about 10 PM I was standing alone on the platform at Ashmont Station,
waiting for the Mattapan trolley to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1992 that neighborhood was a little iffy, and I was nervous standing
there that night; my heart sank when someone came over to me and said “Excuse
me…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man who addressed me was tall
and dark-skinned, and spoke with a Caribbean accent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us white middle-class women, when
we’re alone late at night in a location of questionable safety, and a tall
African-American man comes over and strikes up a conversation, are going to
feel some alarm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re also going to
feel extremely ashamed of ourselves for feeling alarmed; and in a split second
we’re going to be wondering where good street smarts end and plain old racism
begins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Excuse me,” said the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“But aren’t you the woman who sometimes reads to a little boy on this
train?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why yes,” I stammered, “I
am.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I saw the two of you on the train
a few months ago, and I will never forget the look on your son’s face as you
read to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t take my eyes off
him, and when I got home I told my wife, ‘I don’t care how tired I am; from now
on, I am going to read to our children every single night.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have kept that promise, and I promised
myself that if I ever saw you again I would tell you, and thank you for
changing my life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That happened over
twenty years ago, and that night at Ashmont Station that man changed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my</i> life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He showed me that the smallest, simplest, most ordinary thing we do may
be the thing that changes the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the musical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fiddler
on the Roof</i>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Jews of Eastern
Europe (my ancestors) are compared to someone standing on a rooftop, trying to
scratch out a simple, pleasant tune without breaking his neck, and relying upon
tradition to keep his balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
youth I’d have said that the tune was the thing that most mattered, and indeed
it’s the work of youth to define one’s own simple, pleasant tune and to make
that tune the most beautiful we can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
I have learned is that we are all fiddlers up there on that roof together; the
problem is that each of us is scratching out a different tune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
still try to make my life’s music the best it can be, but I’ve learned to treasure
the unexpected beauty that happens when my tune mixes with the music made by
everyone around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’ve also
learned that the traditions and values that help each of us keep our balance
can, if we don’t pay attention, become prejudices that threaten to silence
someone else’s song, or cause our neighbors to lose their balance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So today, I’d say that the important thing is how our
differences connect us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That might sound
contradictory but it doesn’t have to be: the unique features that define each
of us can also enrich and connect all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a connection that takes its strength not just from our big
moments and our significant achievements, but also from how we live together
and treat one another, every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reading:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something
big splashed, quietly, in the distance, and the splash echoed into the
vastness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He squinted, but could see
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was too dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, from the direction of the splashes,
a ghost-light glimmered and the world took form: he was in a cavern, and in
front of him, mirror-smooth, was water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
splashing noises came closer and the light became brighter, and Shadow waited
on the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon enough a low, flat
boat came into sight, a flickering white lantern burning at its raised prow,
another reflected in the glassy black water several feet below it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat was being poled by a tall figure,
and the splashing noise Shadow had heard was the sound of the pole being lifted
and moved as it pushed the craft across the waters of the underground lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
boat’s pilot was tall, and very thin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
– if it was a he – wore an unadorned white robe, and the pale head that topped
it was so utterly inhuman that Shadow was certain that it had to be a mask of
some sort: it was a bird’s head, small on a long neck, its beak long and
high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The boat
came close to the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pilot
leaned on its pole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its head turned
slowly, until it was facing Shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Hello,” it said, without moving its long beak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice was male, and, like everything else
in Shadow’s afterlife so far, familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Come on board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll get your
feet wet, I’m afraid, but there’s not a thing can be done about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are old boats, and if I come in closer
I could rip out the bottom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shadow
took off his shoes and stepped out into the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came halfway up his calves, and was, after
the initial shock of wetness, surprisingly warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reached the boat, and the pilot put down a
hand and pulled him aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reed
boat rocked a little, and water splashed over the low sides of it, and then it
steadied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pilot
poled off away from the shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shadow
stood there and watched, his pants legs dripping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know
you,” he said to the creature at the prow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You do
indeed,” said the boatman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The oil lamp
that hung at the front of the boat burned more fitfully, and the smoke from the
lamp made Shadow cough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You worked for
me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice was fussy and precise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The smoke
stung Shadow’s eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wiped the tears
away with his hand, and, through the smoke, he thought he saw a tall man in a
suit, with gold-rimmed spectacles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
smoke cleared and the boatman was once more a half-human creature with the head
of a river bird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mister
Ibis?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Good to
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s a
fancy term for an escort,” said Mr. Ibis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar
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or may not ever have existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No. Not
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So I’m
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<span style="font-family: "Archer Book"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Because…”
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I never believed in you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I don’t
know much about Egyptian mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because I didn’t expect this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-20865806069714403702014-11-25T17:34:00.001-05:002014-11-25T17:34:10.666-05:00My friend, Rod Spaulding<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rod Spaulding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">My friend Rod died last week and his life will be celebrated in Charleston, South Carolina. He came a long way to get to Charleston. We will not be there to celebrate him as we are in the Dominican Republic. Not a bad place to be at any time, but especially a good place for reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rod was born in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1938. That made him two years my elder when we met in Abilene, Texas in 1958 at what was then Abilene Christian College. He played an important part in my education. We sold Bibles together in the summer of 1960 and he encouraged me to buy a new Plymouth Valiant, one of the early compact cars built to be sold in the US. I had no business, buying a new car, but a friend of his was a dealer and the price was modest. I drove the car into the ground in 1967 after graduate school at Yale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">More importantly Rod encouraged my relationship with Jan Cothran. He and Jan sang together in the ACC a cappella chorus and he knew her family. Her father scared him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In 1960 we sold Bibles in Kansas and North Texas. Both regions gave me new eyes with which to view the world. In Texas near Vernon I discovered the roots of my family and had the experience of being called by my family name when I knocked on the door of a former neighbor to my grandparents, Henry Robert and Minnie Randolph. When someone greets you with “You are a Randolph.” And then takes you to visit the site of the former Randolph home place, only trees marking the spot, it is a formative experience. Rod understood that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Jan thought of Rod as the older brother she never had and it was with Rod that our lives began to intertwine. We celebrated our 50<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary last May.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rod became part of a team that established a new church plant on Long Island; New Yorkers did not know Jesus had a southern accent. Time Magazine announced their plan in 1964 with a story headed “The Campbellites are Coming”. Their team was led by Dwain and Barbara Evans and Rod and Pat Spaulding were stable parts of an evolving effort to broaden the religious landscape of New York. A whole church landed in New York’s unsuspecting suburbs and the experience gave everyone involved a life changing moment. The congregation in West Islip engaged an alien culture with a new take on Christianity. The congregation lives today and played an important part in mediating the impact of Superstorm Sandy on its neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">If the Greatest Generation won World War II, it was a fearless generation that tried to win the peace that followed. They rode the social unrest that marked the 1960s with what ever tools they brought to the struggle. Rod had an ability to help people think about what we now talk of as core values and he used the church as a redemptive tool and when the tide shifted he developed other skills not far removed from those cultivated in selling Bibles in Kansas and Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rod didn’t know what he didn’t know when he came to New York, but he learned fast. After West Islip he led an urban ministry project that grew out of a summer program called Camp Shiloh for a time and then landed with the Memphis Public Schools in 1972. He worked through the difficult days of integration and moved on to Charleston, SC in 1983. He retired from the public school system there in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">We lost contact after the move to Charleston. It is amazing how quickly 40 years can pass. Our paths had gone in different directions, but the values we shared shaped who we became. We were Christian and held that the world could be a better place if the Social Compact actually worked. Rod worked to make things happen in the world of race and class. He knew the human side of the religious world and hoped to see its better inclinations come to fruition. He was often disappointed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">As I said, it is a long way from West Texas to Charleston, but he shaped and touched many lives along the way. Jan and I are grateful that he was our friend. We cannot sing the hymn <b>Fairest Lord Jesus</b> without thinking of Rod: “Son of God and Son of man; thee will I cherish, thee will I honor; thou my soul’s glory, joy and crown.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">We meant to get to Charleston, but when we contacted Pat she told he was in the last stages of dementia. Son of God and Son of Man could not be more appropriate. Forty years goes too fast. Remember that I told you so.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Robert M. Randolph</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Chaplain to the Institute</span></div>
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Chaplain to the Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06492773587976159359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767153893868152534.post-35013049302887219182014-11-18T14:30:00.005-05:002014-11-18T14:30:59.397-05:00Coming to Terms with the Death of a Student<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
Lydia K. '14, Meltdown, October 29, 2012, MIT Admissions Web Site,</div>
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http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/meltdown</div>
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I don’t think many people understand what we mean when we say that MIT is hard. It’s not just the</div>
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workload. There’s this feeling that no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long</div>
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as you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you’re stupid, and MIT keeps an</div>
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overflowing warehouse of proof in the second basement of building 36. There’s stress and there’s</div>
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shame and there’s insecurity. Sometimes there’s hope. Sometimes there’s happiness. Sometimes</div>
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there’s overwhelming loneliness.</div>
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One thing that is most important to me: Coming to terms with a student death.</div>
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I have been a faculty member at MIT since 1971, and in that
time there have been a number of student deaths almost certainly related to
untreated or undiagnosed clinical depression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was one student death in the early 80’s in particular that I felt causally
connected to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The phrase “causally
connected” means that I felt that my actions or lack of actions had some
bearing on the cause of the death of that student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is commonly said that each death of this
nature affects approximately ten other people in major ways, and I am one of
those ten in this case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would like to
talk today on how I have tried to come to terms over the last thirty years with
my feelings of responsibility for that death.<br />
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In the events that have troubled me for so many years, there
was a moment in time when I realized that the student was in real trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The student had been in my 8.02 recitation
twice, and failed 8.02 each time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can
remember thinking to myself at that moment in time, as if it were yesterday, that
I should find out what was going on with that student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my eternal regret, I thought that thought,
but did not act on that thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
tenured, but busy, too busy to take the time to make the necessary inquiries,
and I felt that it was not my responsibility in any case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone in S^3 was responsible.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I was profoundly shocked when the student died a month or so
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of the death, I
simply could not understand how someone could do what the student had done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a mystery to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
I felt bad at the time, I thought there was something going on that I just
could not fathom, and that provided some comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this had happened mysteriously for reasons
beyond my control, then I had no responsibility in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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Unfortunately for that illusion, sometime later, in the late
eighties, for the first time, I became clinically depressed. Fortunately I
responded well to anti-depressant medication and talk therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not today struggle with depression, any
more than I struggle with getting the flu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But for a time I was severely depressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And for the first time I understood how profoundly painful simply existing
can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So painful that I could then understand
at some level how it was possible that one could see death as preferable to
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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And that gave me insight that I had not had before about
what had led to the death of the student years before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
could now understand the path that the student had gone down, and it was not a
path of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One no more chooses to
die of clinical depression that one chooses to die of cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I concluded that I indeed was responsible
to some degree, in that there were things that were in my control about the
circumstances surrounding this death, and more importantly, that there were things
that still remained extant that I could affect as a faculty member.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In the early 90’s I began lecturing in on-term 8.02, with
something like 800 students, with the vague feeling that I could somehow reduce
the stress associated with that course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
three years I stopped doing that because I did not feel that lecture was a particularly
good way to teach, and it was very hard to see that I was making or could ever
make any real impact on student well-being given the way the course was
structured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Later, in the early 2000’s, MIT had a lot of resources
available to try new ways of teaching, and I got interested in trying the
so-called studio format of teaching physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the many things that recommended that method to me was that
institutions that had tried it found that it decreased the failure rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my mind, decreasing the failure rate meant
decreasing the stress, and decreasing the stress meant decreasing the chances
that the stress would lead to clinical depression, and possibly death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although that was not the only reason I got
involved in trying to change the way that freshmen physics was taught at MIT,
it was one of the reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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I spend six years of my professional life, and a lot of MIT’s
resources, to set up the studio format we now use to teach freshmen physics to
most of our students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The failure rate
is down and more importantly the students are much more tied into the course,
in both their attendance and their interaction with both faculty and other
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the learning gains have
improved by a factor of two across the board, both in the upper third of the
students academically, the middle third, and the lower third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a tide that raises all boats, across
the board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the main reason I
invested so much of my career in this effort, because I love physics and I want
to see others love it as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
also want to see students not be injured by having to take physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I think that I have achieved both goals
to some extent, which consoles me in the context of feeling in part responsible
for the student death many years earlier.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In recent years I have also been more straightforward in publically
addressing the underlying issue that this course redesign was in part aimed
at:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reducing stress on our students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being more public was motivated by an article
in the Tech by Grace Taylor ’12 in 2012 that was about her depression and how
she dealt with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was simply blown
away by her article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still remember
sitting in the Student Center reading the article on the day it came out, and
just being amazed about how brave she was to do what she was doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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A bit later I was approached by Betsy Riley ’14, Chair of
the Undergraduate Association Student Support Committee, about writing a
similar article about my own experience with clinical depression for the
Tech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have always been very open about
having been clinically depressed, on a personal level, which is why Betsy knew
to approach me, but this was very different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was on a very public level, and there is a lot of stigma attached
to having been clinically depressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would never have done this without Grace’s example and Betsy’s request.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In retrospect, I have found that my publically claiming clinical
depression as my own has done a world of good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It serves to normalize the experience, in that it makes it more acceptable
for a student to admit that they may be depressed, and seek help for that
depression, if they have examples in front of them that say that is ok to do
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the anonymous comments in
the Tech on the article I wrote about my own experience with depression was the
following:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thank
you. I believe this is one of the most important things that can happen on this
campus around mental health - letting people know that they're not alone, and
that they are not somehow permanently broken. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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So this is how I have tried to come to terms with the impact
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Grace Taylor ‘12, MENS ET TENEBRAE: It’s not you, it’s a disease, The Tech, Tuesday April 10, 2012.</div>
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My first few weeks on Prozac were like a prolonged version of that scene in the 2002 Spiderman movie</div>
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where Tobey Maguire wakes up and, instead of being a skinny, weak nerd, he’s buff and can fly through</div>
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pervasive feelings of sadness, anxiety, and fear that had plagued my life subsided almost completely.</div>
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Besides the actual relief of my symptoms, I felt incredibly relieved by the fact that my symptoms could</div>
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