{"id":1388,"date":"2015-05-27T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:23","slug":"may-27-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/05\/27\/may-27-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"May 27  &#8211;  &#8220;anyway&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0May 27 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0a call to the margins<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow about 40 UDM women and men will gather in the President\u2019s Dining Room for an all-day conversation about the identity of the university. \u00a0 Using digital media and the ancient art of listening, we will try to teach each other about the word \u201cmargins,\u201d this year\u2019s theme for Heartland Delta 7. \u00a0What are we schools about? \u00a0What grace shows itself when we are working and when we pause to listen? \u00a0\u00a0I hope we surprise one another and come away changed. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/Weather.com\">Weather.com<\/a>\u00a0predicts a sun splashed day, breezy too.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning a friend read this poem written by Mother Theresa; I\u2019d not heard it in years. \u00a0Did me good; you too? \u00a0 Read it out loud with pauses; there may be a blessing here as some of us gather tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post &#8211; \u201cAnyway&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People are often unreasonable and self-centered.<br \/>\nForgive them anyway.<br \/>\nIf you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.<br \/>\nBe kind anyway.<br \/>\nIf you are honest, people may cheat you.<br \/>\nBe honest anyway.<br \/>\nIf you find happiness, people may be jealous.<br \/>\nBe happy anyway.<br \/>\nThe good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.<br \/>\nDo good anyway.<br \/>\nGive the world the best you have, and it may never be good enough.<br \/>\nGive your best anyway.<br \/>\nFor you see, in the end, \u00a0it is between you and God.<br \/>\nIt was never between you and them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0May 27 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0a call to the margins Tomorrow about 40 UDM women and men will gather in the President\u2019s Dining Room for an all-day conversation about the identity of the university. \u00a0 Using digital media and the ancient art &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/05\/27\/may-27-anyway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}