tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post4149208991937944374..comments2023-10-22T03:16:31.189-06:00Comments on Recover Your Joy: A loss of principlesLouise Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522775693728655487noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-26019999313037868262011-08-20T17:55:59.392-06:002011-08-20T17:55:59.392-06:00i totally agree with you. we have issues of our ow...i totally agree with you. we have issues of our own here in Montreal... but no one to lead the charge to see it done. we're so polite here...<br /><br />someone needs a kick in his political butt!!<br /><br />i've worked at the E.R. before, and there was a policy to never hand out to junkies new needles. we are downtown where there's about 30 junkies for every square foot... every request i got from junkies were met, not with one serynge, but a ziplock bag full of them!! they will not shoot up only once, and they have shooting buddies as well. clean needles they can share, used ones, not!!<br />i can't understand the mentality to resist such measures, but one can only decides what he/she thinks is the right thing to do, no matter what others may think.<br /><br />go girl, go!!<br />:)~<br />HUGZBruno Lalibertéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09607511642101907283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-32815703725192114702011-08-20T09:29:20.066-06:002011-08-20T09:29:20.066-06:00I learned a new perspective from you just now. All...I learned a new perspective from you just now. All I had ever heard is the rhetoric ... and it sounded bitter to me even as I wondered why the problem exists in the first place. Seeing it from the other side truly helps. I agree that the heart you put into this effort is the heart that ought to exist in such places and faced with the depth of sin-problems. I can see how this same program could be abused by those who are truly enabling others in their self-destruction, but one can always find someone who damages a good effort with wrong intentions and counsel. I'm so glad that there are some willing to use unconventional methods to help the broken discover their need to change and build the strength to choose another path. It looks just a little like a substitute dying in place of the true criminal ... hmm.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241614773022487007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-76296843938116810152011-08-20T09:04:42.982-06:002011-08-20T09:04:42.982-06:00So many thoughts ...
WWJD? As nance marie rightly...So many thoughts ...<br /><br />WWJD? As nance marie rightly shows, Jesus didn't hinder the righteous from throwing stones with force, by with the power of convicting words. He also told the adulterous woman to sin no more, rather than giving her a condom and advising her to have safe sex until she could find a way out of sin.<br /><br />I hear the love in the many words here, and it gives me pause to think carefully about why I don't agree with the conclusion, even if I adamantly agree with the heart.<br /><br />There can be no life and safety where one turns to government rather than God, no matter the affliction.<br /><br />Still thinking more thoughts ... with ever so much love in my heartAnne Lang Bundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02998809463390846323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-26017939392349144472011-08-19T13:53:17.260-06:002011-08-19T13:53:17.260-06:00Thanks everyone.
and anon -- great minds think ...Thanks everyone. <br /><br />and anon -- great minds think alike :) it should be published this weekend in an edited version (op-eds are 850 wds)<br /><br />Thanks!Louise Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522775693728655487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-77078349497961929522011-08-19T13:24:47.098-06:002011-08-19T13:24:47.098-06:00I have to agree with Fi - I love the fact that you...I have to agree with Fi - I love the fact that you makes so much sense, and also that you can say it so well.......eloquently, to the point and so well said. This would be a great blog to send into the Herald's editorial page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-41092332990664216032011-08-19T06:19:30.184-06:002011-08-19T06:19:30.184-06:00Eloquent,to the point and so very well said.
I lo...Eloquent,to the point and so very well said.<br /><br />I love that everything you write makes so much sense.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16151064836369618082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-80551199331230512372011-08-18T22:57:53.057-06:002011-08-18T22:57:53.057-06:00“Let any one of you who is without sin be the firs...“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.<br /><br />At this,<br /> <br />those <br />who <br />heard<br /> <br />began to go away <br />one at a time,<br /> <br />the older ones first,<br /> <br />until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.<br /><br /><br />from john 8<br /><br /><br />sometimes those who want to do right, forget that they are not without sin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-24272400958116578882011-08-18T16:39:23.314-06:002011-08-18T16:39:23.314-06:00well said, you.
it's so easy to black and whi...well said, you.<br />it's so easy to black and white<br />it all from a disinfected distance.<br />compassion dares to draw near.<br />-JenniferJennifer Richardsonhttp://ripplespeak.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-9966879763287929802011-08-18T09:50:58.121-06:002011-08-18T09:50:58.121-06:00i agree with you in all points you make. i also fo...i agree with you in all points you make. i also found it interesting that you're talking about the costs for tax payers. i recently heard that the big part of health insurance money is spent for dealing with civilization health problems, not sure how the english word exactly is for that - but these are health issues coming from eating too much and don't have enough exercise - so diabetes and all these kind of stuff. the part they spend for helping drug addicts is relatively small compared to thisClaudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-79337839404568851552011-08-18T09:08:23.500-06:002011-08-18T09:08:23.500-06:00LG
keeping people safe, often from themselves or ...LG<br /><br />keeping people safe, often from themselves or from their own self-destructive behaviour, is the challenge<br /><br />if your agency is in the business of keeping people safe, then do so<br /><br />if your agency isn't in the business of keeping people safe - or at least trying to help in that cause, then one should question why it exists at all<br /><br />the issue is one of public policy at high levels - often unwrittent policy - that permits, or stands in the way of, solutions<br /><br />keep fighting the good fight<br /><br />Mark<br /><br />p.s. most reporters have few clues about reporting let alone the issues they report on; that's why the get it wrong so often. Politicians, too often, read the paper rather than learning the issues from people who know and understand them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273998760028140856.post-12066192710509295772011-08-18T08:56:25.950-06:002011-08-18T08:56:25.950-06:00Oh, this issue has been raised so many times in th...Oh, this issue has been raised so many times in the D.C. area, and I want to scream every time I hear someone say "it's their choice". Just as I want to scream when I hear so-called presidential candidates say it's time to make government irrelevant. Great, I say; eat your uninspected meat, take your untested drugs, allow your children to be exposed to unregulated chemicals and go to schools where nobody cares whether or not they get an education. It's insane. Society bears the greater cost every time it turns its back on making the connection, opening the line of communication. And that cost is not just in dollars; it's about what it means to be human.<br /><br />Do let us know what that reporter writes, and whether he gets it. . . right.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com