First blog

Ok, so this is my first blog. What does it look like...?
Ok, it looked ok, now can I produce some content of value?

Time will tell. Right now I am sitting here with Bill, our new family member chatting with me. He is a delightful, 60 year old guy with mental and physical disabilities.

I have just "tucked him in" opps, Bill says that he does not get "tucked in". For some reason that is highly objectionable to him. Many things are highly objectionable to Bill. It is enjoyable to have him be clear about what works for him and what doesn't work for him.

Maybe like Henri Nouwen who after being a professor at Yale and Harvard, decided that the best thing he could do was to go minister to the disabled folks at L'Arche in Montreal, I will learn from Bill.
In "The Beatitudes, Soundings In Christian Traditions" Simon Tugwell strongly recommends that for our own salvation we hang out with and be comfortable and learn from and love those he calls "anawim". 
These he describes as "...the underdogs, the people who lack social, political, economic power, the people who are not in a position to control their own circumstances, who cannot pull strings. The people, on the face of it, stand no chance whatsoever of inheriting the earth."

This word "anawim" is what is translated "meek" in the beatitude that says that the "meek will inherit the earth".
So in in the culture of 2008 are we comfortable becoming as the anawim?