Wednesday, September 20, 2006

I am currently reading a book called "Homage to a Broken Man" . . . it is basically the biography of Heinrich Arnold . . . who was part of the beginnings of the Bruderhof.

One of the most striking things for me thus far in my reading was their care for the broken (also known as outcasts and degenerates to society). Both Eberhardt and Heiner (and for the most part the community at large) cared deeply for the broken . . . deeply enough to take them into their families, stay up with them all night to make sure they did not harm themselves, sleep outside their doors so they could not run away in their madness, protected them . . . and so much more.

They embodied love. Truly embodied love.

Another world is possible.

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