tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1684752445949340487.post1694399102855127625..comments2023-06-29T16:23:39.806+01:00Comments on engage: Guantanamo for kidsmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04556299081652933923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1684752445949340487.post-63179577974305588432008-12-01T21:01:00.000+00:002008-12-01T21:01:00.000+00:00Great post, Kev. Really liked the poem and very c...Great post, Kev. Really liked the poem and very challenging. You have always modelled an open home and I think that is seriously counter-cultural and a pretty hard thing to do and I really respect you in that.<BR/><BR/>Please lead us in identifying ways we can support you and the needs of abused children on our doorstep.markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04556299081652933923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1684752445949340487.post-52242572652550011262008-12-01T20:26:00.000+00:002008-12-01T20:26:00.000+00:00Hi Kev - great to have you posting - and what a st...Hi Kev - great to have you posting - and what a start - that was a powerful post and very challenging. <BR/><BR/>I know what you mean about the distant thing on Guantanamo, though there is lots we can do. <BR/><BR/>Yet as you say, poverty, relational poverty and abuse exists right under our noses - I remember that awful thing in Upperthorpe with the young girl at the pub (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2116452/Three-year-old-girl-lay-dead-in-bedroom-for-two-days.html) - I had to think what a difference someone getting alongside that family to support them could have made? Totally Heartbreaking. Thanks for the provocation and I know it is something you and Clare are acting on right now. Every encouragement, all support possible and of course prayers to you in that. We always said 'not just a talking shop' with engage and its a challenge to work out what can be done. You focus on the extension of home and family to the ‘guantanamo kids’ and that’s a wonderful transformative healing thing. <BR/><BR/>Just looking at the needs of the world is so daunting but surely within each one of us there is a particular gift of God for the world - I know I want to be open to that - as we go deeper into God and the gift we are becoming. I hope that in what Clare and you are doing you find that for yourselves too – and in so doing bring hope and home to just the right young life. What that means for me ….. All I can say right now is that I am up for figuring that out together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com