{"id":247,"date":"2009-05-09T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-05-09T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:00:08","slug":"the-safest-place-in-the-worldentry-for-may-12-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"The Safest Place in the World……..Entry for May 12, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a real photo of a real place. But I painted the sky. Because when I opened the digital image on my Mac, the sky was white. I hate white skies.
\nOur sister Barb has shown me some wonderful things since I moved in. Bike trails, hiking paths, restaurants, free places, museums, bargain centers, thrift shops, flea markets and so on. You all know what I am talking about because you all know our dear sister Barb.
\nThis is a home where nuns from all over the world come to get ready to face the planet earth. They are the nuns of Sister Theresa. I quess there is about 30 of them living here, a very humble blessed life. On Sunday evenings they gather upstairs in a small chapel. In the photo it is that circle window on the second floor. When I go there with her, I am AMAZED.
\nThe dedication, faith and love in this house.
\nOn the nights that we go there they pray the rosary on their knees and sing songs.
\nThey have the cutest, meekest little voices.
\nI feel so protected. From everything that is outside of us. This house is in the inner city of Plainfield. Surrounded by murder, drugs, unemployment etc.
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But when I am up there, it is the safest place on the earth.
\nNow with all the Typhoons and tornados, the escalating cost of living, the endless war against terrorism, sometimes I worry about my job, and I work in a city with a huge target painted on its back. It seems that the rollercoaster never stops. I am up. Happy. And I crash. My heart breaks like a piece of glass and I pick up all the pieces and then my hands are bleeding. I can fit everything I own on this planet in my car (and it is a two door) but I have this place I can go, the safest place in the world, and I have my family, and I have love for my children that I cannot describe. And I can paint blue skys.
\nI am the richest man on earth.
\n“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” –from the “Wizard Of Oz”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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