Comments on: Learning from John – ‘Narayan Seva’

By: stephen t berg

stephen t berg — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:34:45 +0000

Thank you Rose. Your example inspires.

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:40:47 +0000

I enjoyed reading about your appreciation of certain sounds and the feel of their rhythyms each morning and encounters during your day.

I see a few folks each day in my work neighborhood too, and after a year, or less, we began to say a longer hello and engage in brief conversations wanting to know each other is content or what we doing today.

By: stephen t berg

stephen t berg — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:22:44 +0000

Thank you Lucy, and Sam. (Sam, perhaps it’s more my Protestant truancy in using a bit of narrative to override the old, tired, pedantic, theological business of salvation by works or faith.)

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:44:40 +0000

When you introduced this as “doctrinal truancy,” I thought that if we don’t at some time commit some, we can’t really be sure of the value of our doctrines. When I read the piece, I knew, as did Lucy above, that your thoughts were right out of the book! Thanks.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:23:00 +0000

I think I read this somewhere – “Come you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me…truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these members of my family, you did it to me…

…truly I tell you, just as you did NOT do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. And these will go away into eternal punishment…”