{"id":2836,"date":"2018-12-10T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:04","slug":"december-10-dates-i-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/12\/10\/december-10-dates-i-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"December 10 dates I remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, December 10, 2018<\/p>\n

Over the years on my birthday, Dec 10, 1939; I\u2019ve noticed some dates \u2014 one birth – Emily Dickenson in 1830, 3 deaths, and the Nobel Peace Prize award today in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Here are three death anniversaries:<\/p>\n

1910 – Red Cloud, \u00a0 Lakota war leader; until Vietnam I think, the only war leader who formally defeated the U.S. military (signed a treaty of surrender; \u00a0later broken alas). Our\u00a0Jesuit grade and high school on Pine Ridge takes its name from him: \u201cRed Cloud Indian School.\u201d<\/p>\n

1968 – Karl Barth, \u00a0 one of the great Christian theologians of the 20th century \u00a0(from my Roman Catholic theological perspective, of the same theological stature as Karl\u00a0Rahner).<\/p>\n

1968 – Thomas Merton, \u00a0 died while visiting Asia, it seems that he accidentally electrocuted himself while taking a bath: faulty wiring in an electric fan. \u00a0 Merton has had the greatest influence on me of all these.\u00a0 Think of his one paragraph prayer as a poem that would reward reading, with pauses, several times.<\/p>\n

Have a blest day.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Merton \u201cThoughts in Solitude\u201d<\/p>\n

MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<\/p>\n

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January 31, 1915 \u2013 December 10, 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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