!World Communion Sunday
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agk's diary 
6 October 2024 @ 10:30 UTC
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written in church in midori notebook with dip pen,
brause blue pumpkin nib, kuretake sumi ink
transcribed on X61, model M keys, hp vf15 monitor
in kitchen while roommate's in online school
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My church is praying for my country, Lebanon,
Israel and Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Congo, my town,
and North Carolina, each called out from the
conscience of a different member. I said nothing,
except from my heart.

My public prayer in church, which from October 7
2023 til Lent this year caused discomfort and
concern it'd incite conflict among the members,
finally became a sweet smell to God's nostrils.

There's room for my heart here. There's room for my
heart here. I can rest here.

Dr. Kitchens is singing "Move me Jesus to do Thy
will." I'm here without first daughter, who had a
fever last night after the day of solidarity vigil
with Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq in Louis-
ville. We flew kites, saw friends, chanted to-
gether, prayed, and rallied.

At the rally, when I spoke from the soapbox, I said
there are plenty people in Central Kentucky and
throughout the rural areas who want our country to
stop arming Israel, for lots of reasons. I didn't
talk about the reasons, I just talked about what we
done out of those reasons.

This morning before church Evy and I talked about
it. When we canvassed for Shauna and Jill, we
talked to thousands of people. We didn't talk to
anybody who wanted our government to stop arming
Israel because they wanted Jews to die.

They wanted our government to stop because they're
fiscal conservatives, veterans who know what war
does, people of conscience. Evy said most'd never
come to something like the vigil in Louisville.

In church today I can add another. Because they're
Christians.