Toby Harkleroad
@tobyhark
dad, organizer, student, educator, person of faith ๐ค๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ / also @ http://tobyhark.bsky.social ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐น๐ฒ๐ท๐ฒ๐ธ๐ท๐ผ ๐ช๐ป๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ ๐ธ๐๐ท
If you are a person of faith, do not forget that the world and the people in it are fundamentally good!
Human beings should be valued not for what they have but for what they are โSt Oscar Romero, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) 1977 #StOscarRomero
Every day, the horrors in Gaza reach new, unimaginable depths. And as starvation spreads, Netanyahu and Trump remain complicit in a scheme to use US taxpayer dollars to replace humanitarian aid orgs with mercenaries โ leading to more death and devastation. This cannot continue.โฆ
Happy World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, established by Pope Francis to be celebrated on the Feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne, JESUSโ grandparents
The beguine Hadewijch of Antwerp taught the virtue of โnoble unfaith.โ The problem with faith for most people, she said, was how it dampened desire by answering every question and creating contentment. Something I talk about in my new book on Francis and the experience of God.
Jesus is the hungry child in Gaza. When we donโt feed them, we donโt feed Jesus Jesus is the thirsty child in Gaza. When we donโt give them water, we donโt quench His thirst Jesus is the wounded child beneath the rubble. If we donโt rescue them, we have abandoned Christ Himself
I have never felt so shaken. Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch. How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israelโs starvationโฆ
The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.
