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Engaged SpiritualitySpirituality in the Light of Student
Volunteerism
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What does the lordrequire of you
but to act justly, love
tenderly,
and walk humbly with
your god?
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Micah attacked the social, economic and religiousleaders of his time in the toughest language possible.
He said the landowners were cheats, the merchantswere greedy,the priests were hypocrites, and theprophets were false. He said those in charge eat the
flesh of my people, and flay their skin from them, andbreak their bones. They chop them in pieces like
flesh in a kettle. (3:2-3).
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Micah calls us to social justice spirituality. Weare called to act justly, love tenderly, and walkhumbly with our god. Not justice alone. Not love
alone. Not walking humbly with god alone. Nonestand alone.
Justice, love, and spirituality are to beintertwined in our lives.
In order to act justly, we must love tenderly and
walk humbly with God. In order to love tenderly,we must act justly and walk humbly with God.And in order to walk humbly with God, we mustact justly and love tenderly.
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This is not a spirituality in competition with a life
of action for justice. A spirituality that is devoted only to
trying to develop a personal relationship with God whichignores or de-emphasizes the demand to create a more
just world with our neighbors is not real spirituality.
A spirituality that does not insist that we act justly andloving toward the poor and oppressed
in our world is an incomplete spirituality.
But likewise, a life that tries only to be concerned aboutjustice and love, without an interior life, is incomplete.
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To walk humbly with God isspirituality.
We must create the time to takethat walk.
There are times when all of us
have felt that we are too busy tospend time meditating.
Action without contemplation is a
recipe for burnout.
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I think her spirituality is the key... If she had
just totally lost herself in the Worker, itwouldn't have been Dorothy Day at all. Sheobviously resisted being overwhelmed by thework and took her time to be private and to
read and pray. This was a woman of silencesas well as intense activity, and you felt it when
you were with her.
(on Dorothy Day)
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Spirituality is an awareness of the presence of theSacred in all life.
Spirituality suggests that all life is one, all life isinterdependent.
Essentially, all life on the planet is connected as a"web of life" and justice encourages a relationshipamong all parts of the web.
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Spirituality
Not something apart from everyday life.
It is an experience that occurs in the midst of, and
gives depth and integrity to our lives as people wholive in a particular culture, in a particular place andtime.
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Spirituality
a way of life
a walking humbly with,
loving tenderly,and acting justly.
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Anyway
People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered
Love them anyway
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior
motives
Do good anyway
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable
Be honest and frank anyway
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight
Build anyway
People really need help but may attack you if you help them
Help people anywayGive the world the best you have
and youll get kicked in the teeth
Give the world the best youve got anyway