11.21.06 Tuesdays Reflection

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=220 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="13eb8750.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="117" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>"We, who have received the love of Christ through the Spirit must not contain it..."</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMMUSA)"><U>Home Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tuesdays Reflection"><U>Tuesdays Reflection</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission Statement"><U>Mission Statement</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id215.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vision Statement"><U>Vision Statement</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ways You Can Help Us"><U>Ways You Can Help Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="All About VMM"><U>All About VMM</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Application Qualifications"><U>Application Qualifications</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Discernment Process"><U>Discernment Process</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="application.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Application Form"><U>Application Form</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bridges Newsletter"><U>Bridges Newsletter</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letters from the Missions"><U>Letters from the Missions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Adobe Printing Instructions"><U>Adobe Printing Instructions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.guidestar.org/partners/networkforgood/donate.jsp?ein=36-3153581" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.guidestar.org/partners/networ"><U><IMG SRC="1887e300.gif" border=0 width="126" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <form method="get" action="http://search.atomz.com/search/"> <input size=15 name="sp-q"><br> <input type=submit value="Search"> <input type=hidden name="sp-a" value="sp10020180"> <input type=hidden name="sp-f" value="iso-8859-1"> </form></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMM-USA)</B></I></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMMUSA)"><U>home</U></A></div> <bR> <div> 11.21.06  <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tuesdays Reflection"><U>Tuesdays Reflection</U></A></div> <div>                     Nicaraguan Elections     </div> <bR> <div> I still haven't quite come back to Edmonton! I'm writing several </div> <div> articles on the Nicaraguan elections and need to get these out </div> <div> quickly. I'm doing a presentation for a social justice group in a </div> <div> local parish on Thursday. I have just spent 2.5 days at a conference </div> <div> on <U>Power to the People: Determining our Energy Future</U>. I brought back </div> <div> a persistent flu from Nicaragua. And I have visitors arriving tomorrow!</div> <bR> <div> All this didn't prevent me from being moved by several articles about </div> <div> homelessness in Edmonton, in the province of Alberta, the richest </div> <div> province in Canada. This year there are 2,618 homeless people </div> <div> counted, 1,774 were recorded as absolute homeless and 844 as </div> <div> sheltered homeless because they live in emergency accommodations - 79 </div> <div> families, encompassing 151 children under 17. That's a 20% increase </div> <div> over last year.</div> <bR> <div> Al through the 1980s the federal and provincial governments were </div> <div> building an average of 20,000 units of low-rent housing every year. </div> <div> Now it's down to well under 2,000 units per year.</div> <bR> <div> What I can offer are a few quotations:</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Lord's true love is not spent nor is God's compassion failed. </I></div> <div> <I>They are new every morning</I>. Lamentations 3:22</div> <bR> <div> Freedom cannot be found in moving from place to place. Freedom will </div> <div> be found in crossing the frontiers within and in changing the shape </div> <div> of the place in which we now live.</div> <bR> <div> <I>It is during the process of talking, feeling and listening that the </I></div> <div> <I>space is found for healing to start</I>. Judge Bria Huculak, Saskatchewan</div> <bR> <div> <I>Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering</I> - Padre Pio</div> <bR> <div> Cecily</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>