{"id":492,"date":"2010-06-14T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=492"},"modified":"2010-06-15T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:37:29","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-let-no-oil-spill-turn-you-%e2%80%98round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/14\/don%e2%80%99t-let-no-oil-spill-turn-you-%e2%80%98round\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let no Oil Spill Turn You \u2019Round"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reddish and snowy egrets weathering the oil spill together, photographed June 12, 2010, Dauphin Island<\/p><\/div>\n

Today I was told, \u201cThis oil spill\u2019s going to last for the rest of our lives.\u201d Hopefully not, but one thing\u2019s for sure, the human family has storms enough coming and brewing now to fill our lifetimes. \u201cConstant vigilance!\u201d as Mad-eye Moody vowed needs to be our motto too. In the last blog entry<\/a>, I spoke of encouragement. But right now southerly winds are pushing the oil toward the Gulf beaches. Hurricane season is beginning with the warmest waters on record ready to fuel the cyclones. The economy worldwide is in disarray. So, ultimately, encouragement needs deeper roots.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, right now I\u2019m humming\u00a0African American spirituals which helped sustain deep encouragement in the midst of great trouble. \u201cSometimes I feel like a motherless chile \u2026\u201d \u201cNobody knows the trouble I\u2019ve seen \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The spirituals proclaimed a firm, rebellious hope as well. \u201cTrouble Don\u2019t Last for Always \u2026\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t let nobody turn you ’round!\u201d And later, \u201cDon\u2019t let segregation turn you ’round!\u201d Today, let\u2019s say together, \u201cDon\u2019t let no oil spill turn you ’round!\u201d Today, like before, for all our problems, let it be a hope held inside. A hope held in common. The spirituals did not offer a quick fix, but an intergenerational hope passed from the old to the young, from parents to children, from friends to friends. A hope engraved in hearts by generous service. A hope sustained by the winds of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

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Today I was told, \u201cThis oil spill\u2019s going to last for the rest of our lives.\u201d Hopefully not, but one thing\u2019s for sure, the human family has storms enough coming and brewing now to fill our lifetimes. \u201cConstant vigilance!\u201d as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,65,62,27],"tags":[63,64,66,67,40],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragement","category-endurance","category-music","category-oil-spill","tag-african-american-spirituals","tag-hurricanes","tag-nobody-knows-the-trouble-ive-seen","tag-service","tag-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}