{"id":623,"date":"2006-09-06T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2006-09-06T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T22:36:00","slug":"how-far-is-east-from-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2006\/09\/06\/how-far-is-east-from-west\/","title":{"rendered":"how far is east from west?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/falsani.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/forgive-us-our-trespasses-as-we.html\">powerful post about peace and forgiveness<\/a> from God Girl is a must-read (really, all of her posts are worth a gander, but do take a few minutes to contemplate this one)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/1600\/gill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/200\/gill.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindonfire.com\">John<\/a> initially showed me this post because the photo of double-amputee Gill Hicks caught his eye.  That she has forgiven the London bombers whose acts resulted in her loss is a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Today I showed my students a video about the 1992 LA Uprising\/Rodney King Riots.  The movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewingrace.org\/browse_title.php?film_id=383&#038;curr_letter=s\">Sa-I-Gu<\/a>, explores the tensions in central L.A. between African-Americans and the Korean shopkeepers whose businesses were looted and burned to the ground.  Though there are interviewees in this documentary that speak kindly about their neighbors, I left class today with an overwhelming weariness.  Feeling as if the world is way too complex.  With a loss of hope that was exacerbated by a conversation with a student in the Navy following the film. <\/p>\n<p>But I think I will prepare for Rosh Hashanah this year as God Girl has suggested, by finding hope through forgiveness.  She quotes Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald as saying:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;We have this concept that God is in the fields&#8230;.He&#8217;s not in his temple, he&#8217;s not in his abodes . . . he&#8217;s not transcendent. He&#8217;s very, very imminent. He comes out to the fields, to the people in the fields, begging them, &#8216;OK, come to me and just ask for forgiveness.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This powerful post about peace and forgiveness from God Girl is a must-read (really, all of her posts are worth a gander, but do take a few minutes to contemplate this one)&#8230; John initially showed me this post because the photo of double-amputee Gill Hicks caught his eye. 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