building a city of love
one person at a time
love, the only building code
each person a unique architecture
all the styles
all the colours
all the songs and dances
in our city of love
city of love
in this city of love
the streets are always changing
forever rearranging
paved with love
street lamps shine so bright
light conquers night
in our city of love
city of love
in this city of love
the walls are living gardens
hedgerows of trust and bushes of respect
grown with care, watered and trimmed,
nurtured with love,
birds nest in their shelter
flowers bloom and fruits ripen
in our city of love
city of love
city of love
29 march 2007, paris
Saturday, March 31, 2007
cairo, cairo - song
cairo, cairo
here i am watching the nile river flow
listen to the traffic of the city far below
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
when moses was just a tiny little babe
wrapped in cloth and in a reed basket laid
floating down the river, in the hand of god
found by pharoah's daughter, raised by a mother's love
cairo, cairo
feel in my bones the ancient joys and sorrow
from the lowly hebrew slave to the mighty pharoah
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
moses killed a man and had to run away
found a new life like the bedouin today
but the lord told moses to return to pharoah
'lead my chosen nation and let my people go'
cairo, cairo
we've seen your wonders, more than we could know
but if you wonder where we came from and how this is so
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
27 march 2007, ramses hilton, cairo
here i am watching the nile river flow
listen to the traffic of the city far below
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
when moses was just a tiny little babe
wrapped in cloth and in a reed basket laid
floating down the river, in the hand of god
found by pharoah's daughter, raised by a mother's love
cairo, cairo
feel in my bones the ancient joys and sorrow
from the lowly hebrew slave to the mighty pharoah
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
moses killed a man and had to run away
found a new life like the bedouin today
but the lord told moses to return to pharoah
'lead my chosen nation and let my people go'
cairo, cairo
we've seen your wonders, more than we could know
but if you wonder where we came from and how this is so
think of the days we were in ancient cairo
27 march 2007, ramses hilton, cairo
Friday, March 09, 2007
community of celebration
mum was a lay member of the community of celebration, which includes the music of the fisherfolk. more than music and communal living, the community of celebration reaches out to the larger community:
"Most of the sayings of Jesus are so radical when set against the way life is lived in a modern industrial society that it seems impossible that anyone could fulfill them. Maybe this is why a lot of religious enthusiasm nowadays concentrates on the person of Jesus rather than his sayings, as if his ‘lordship’ could somehow be separated from what he said. At any rate, when we give ourselves to God and to one another, all of a sudden the sayings come within the realms of possibility."
mum was involved in more than the ministry of praise. she counseled others on bereavement and cancer. she was mightily involved in the church's breakfast program, providing meals to the hungry and homeless in downtown st. catharines.
"In addition to our principal work of prayer, our local ministry includes:
The Aliquippa Community Enterprise (ACE) Women's Training Program Participating in programs to support anti-drug, anti-crime, and domestic violence initiatives in Aliquippa and Western Pennsylvania Supplying chaplaincies for the City Council, the local police and fire departments, and the FBI in Western Pennsylvania Providing affordable, quality housing to low-income families"
read more on their ministry to the town of Aliquippa, "bereft after the fall of the steel industry, [...] viewed as a place of discouragement and fear"
"Most of the sayings of Jesus are so radical when set against the way life is lived in a modern industrial society that it seems impossible that anyone could fulfill them. Maybe this is why a lot of religious enthusiasm nowadays concentrates on the person of Jesus rather than his sayings, as if his ‘lordship’ could somehow be separated from what he said. At any rate, when we give ourselves to God and to one another, all of a sudden the sayings come within the realms of possibility."
mum was involved in more than the ministry of praise. she counseled others on bereavement and cancer. she was mightily involved in the church's breakfast program, providing meals to the hungry and homeless in downtown st. catharines.