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diff --git a/faith/give-me-your-tired.rst b/faith/give-me-your-tired.rst index 60e6b11..b6151b8 100644 --- a/faith/give-me-your-tired.rst +++ b/faith/give-me-your-tired.rst @@ -7,24 +7,31 @@ Give me your tired :tags: tags - Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, - With conquering limbs astride from land to land; - Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand - A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame - Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name - Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand - Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command - The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. - - "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she - With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, + “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she + With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, - I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" + I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” -- Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus (1883) +For all those who consider themselves to be my friends I have one +rather depressing message: couple times in my life somebody +pointed how many of my friends are losers. I have always found +among my friends people who were strangely unsuccessful in the +basic business of living their lives. People on the edge or +beyond the of being unemployed, people with mostly failing +career, people on the edge or beyond the edge of their divorce, +but also people whose disaster was pure force majeure: one of my +friends, really smart programmer and a good Catholic friend, had +his mother dying while their brain-damaged daughter was born. +I was contemplating this strange number of such people couple of +years ago when I was running between two hospitals were two of my +friends were in that time on the suicide watch. + + + 1Cor 1:18-31 Foolishness of God. He declares that those who are valued by the God are not those who are valued by the world. What was the measure of value of one's life then? “22. For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom, 23. but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.” (1Cor 1:22-23, NET) |