-Paul Hawken, graduation address at the University of Portland (via)
May 20, 2009
a multitude of caring people
"You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way."
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Donald Miller - Be Secretly Incredible . Interesting comments on Scot McKnight's post The New Mission Field: The Rural Church - I do...
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The long-neglected round-up of interesting links is back again; hopefully I'll get back on track with a regular routine with this. Here ...
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God Makes Lemonade - love this concept! Seth Godin on Talker's Block - great post about working through writer's block; of cours...