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August 2009 
Mothers Day, Judas, & Love Song of the Universe
TimeToShine
Tenderness in the Face of Profound Distress
US Army Sergeant Kornelia Rachwal gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water.
This was Picture of the Day on Wikimedia Commons on May 9, 2007.
Let gentleness and kindliness arise everywhere
Let young men nurture
Let soldiers be emissaries
Of Peace
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"...If the truth is upon us, and it appears to have been placed in our hands, then this is a time like no other in history. It is time for those who are brave enough to do so to stand up and say that the age of war is at an end. Bring all troops of war home, forever. It is time for us to educate ourselves as though our lives depend upon it. It is time to focus on Jupiter, and the gifts given...
...There is a song in our DNA that has never stopped singing despite the fact that we stopped hearing it thousands of years ago. It is time to finally listen and let the truth set us free. "
The Gospel Of Judas,
Barbelo & Long-Kept Secrets
By Mary Sparrowdancer
http://www.rense.com/general71/defmo.htm
Mary wishes to thank the numerous people, including friends and scholars who helped with and gave input in the preparation of this paper.
website at http://www.sparrowdancer.com/
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Mothering Sunday Orginal Proclamation:
Mother's Day Proclamation ~ Boston 1872
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic in her passion to see slavery ended:
"Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel..."
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WomenRise for Global Peace will be at the WomenRise Peace Pole in the Park
on Mothering Sunday from 11am.
San Lorenzo Park, our City Park, Santa Cruz, California
First we will be vocal
and then we will....
JUST STAND THERE!
"THIS SUNDAY ~ stand in the park.... just stand there...
The women of Ohio call upon the women of the world, from the day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us to save the world.
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering that has inspired us. A quick summary of the story is:
A busboy who worked in a café whose window faced the public park noticed that two grandmotherly looking women had been standing in the park all day without moving at all and without talking. They were dressed up in their Sunday best and were just staring at the town hall. He asked the other patrons in the café what they thought the women were up to. They speculated on a variety of things.
Over dinner that evening the busboy told his parents and he and his father hooted and howled, but his mother was totally silent. After dinner, the mother called her best friends to tell them.
The next morning the busboy looked out the café window and the two women were back, along with his mother, her friends, and the women who had been in the café the day before. All were standing in silence staring at the town hall. Again, the men hooted and howled and said things like "You can't save the world by standing in the park. That is what we have armies for," and "everyone knows you have to have banners and slogans to save the world--you can't do it by just standing in the park."
The next day the women were joined by the women who were in the café the day before and a number of their friends. This brought the local newspaper reporter to the scene. He wrote a derisive article about the women. The day after it appeared, hundreds of women showed up to stand in the park in silence. The mayor then told the police chief to make the women leave because they were making the town appear to be foolish. When the police chief told them they would have to disperse because they didn't have a permit, one of them responded that "we are just individuals standing in our public park and we are not giving speeches or having a demonstration so why would we need a permit." The police chief thought about this and agreed with them and left the park.
At this point 2,223 women including the mayor's wife, the police chief's wife, and one five-year old girl were standing in the park to save the world. The news quickly spread and soon women were standing all over the country. The story ended with women standing in every country throughout the globe, standing to save the world.
See http://www.grandmotherbook.com/ AND http://www.standingwomen.org/english_story.html
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Standing Stone Circle depicted here is the Lakota~Scottish Stone circle
erected to celebrate our deepening connection with Lakota
towards the restoration of the Ancient Pathways of Peace
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