{"id":7679,"date":"2024-01-05T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:30:57","slug":"december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/minister\/december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWhen Will The Who Replace The What?\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nNow is The Time to replace; \u201cWhat law?\u201d was broken.<br \/>\nNow is Time to make \u201cWho was Harmed?\u201d<br \/>\nMore than words Spoken.<br \/>\nTime to Realign<br \/>\nThe laws of the state.<br \/>\nTime to make human healing<br \/>\nThe center of the debate.<br \/>\nRestorative Justice, some may call it;<br \/>\nJustice with eyes open, I call it.<br \/>\nEyes that see crime as broken lives<br \/>\nRegardless of the cause.<br \/>\nEye Open Justice makes human healing<br \/>\nAs important as man-made laws.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are a nation of laws,\u201d<br \/>\nI hear the familiar chant.<br \/>\nNo, we are a nation of people,<br \/>\n\u2018lest our constitution we shall recant.<br \/>\nYou ever heard of a planet called Crime?<br \/>\nA place in space where criminals come from?<br \/>\nMe neither, these are our sisters and brothers<br \/>\nand then some.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been in the circles<br \/>\nand witnessed the healing,<br \/>\nStark reminders of the power of human feeling.<br \/>\nThe \u201cPerp\u201d and the \u201cVic\u201d<br \/>\nFace to face in a circle of truth.<br \/>\nLed by loving folks who simply believe in love.<br \/>\nSometimes face water flows in and out<br \/>\nLike the ocean tide,<br \/>\nTears, which allow Ancestors to cross<br \/>\nTo the Other Side.<br \/>\nRev. Chris knows,<br \/>\nMakes you feel all warm inside.<br \/>\nSo, how long do we keep harming people,<br \/>\nwho harm people,<br \/>\nto show that harm is no good?<br \/>\nHow\u2019s it working so far?<br \/>\nSomebody better knock on wood.<br \/>\nWood knocking too superstitious?<br \/>\nIs neuroscience good?<br \/>\nBrain studies show true caring is measurable<br \/>\nand never misunderstood.<br \/>\nLet us melt that frozen sea within,<br \/>\nIn\u2026, In\u2026, Inmate to Classmate,<br \/>\nFelon to Fellow.<br \/>\nLet us listen to the sweet strings<br \/>\nOf our Spirit cello.<br \/>\nListening to our inner gut.<br \/>\nToday let us allow,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Who?\u201d<br \/>\nTo Replace \u201cThe What?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rev. Anthony Mtuaswa Johnson<\/p>\n<p><em>(from his book of poetry entitled \u201cWhat If God Is A Woman?&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen Will The Who Replace The What?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}