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Our Loaves And Fishes

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Our Loaves And Fishes
(Dedicated to immigrants
of all stripes)

Open the gates!
Let down the barriers!
Fling wide the doors!

See my brother
Standing there!

See the glint of hope
In his determined eye!

Sense the longings
Lodged in his heart!

Work!
Home!
Family!
Respect!
Fulfillment!

Open the gates!
Let down the barriers!
Fling wide the doors!

Don't be afraid!
Let my brother in!

Let him sit at our table
Rest by our fire
And till in our field!

Sense the longings
Lodged in his heart!

Aren't they the same longings
That are lodged in ours?

And won't the Mother
Who bore us all
Supply us all
With all
Our Loaves and Fishes?

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Jim Bush is a 67 year old, Vietnam-era veteran, currently living in Texas. He was raised in a military family. His father received the Silver Star for directing troops while under air attack at Clark Field in the Phillipines, survived the Bataan (more...)

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"The book is very well written...very important in this individualized capitalistic illusory world that enslaves us all within its tentacles and forces us to believe that we are atomized and disconnected beings. Indigenous Lakota people end prayers with "Mitakuye Oyasin...all my relations..." An ancient African proverb states, "A person is a person only because of and with others..." This instructive text is very useful for us living in what we are always told is the modern world, because it reconnects us all and reminds us that ultimately, the endless circle of the Universe binds and connects us all and the Earth is Mother to us with no hierarchy...the ones at the bottom matter the most...like the ants who build mounds and hills, all working in unison and harmony...the book teaches that we were created for community and our destiny is organic community...anything else is doomed..."

Julian Kunnie, Professor of Religious Studies/Classics at the University of Arizona and author of The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People

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