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		<title>Living Proof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, November 21, 2009


Living Proof


As you may know, the stereotype of the adult Trust Baby who lives on the street by choice because he or she doesn’t want to obey society’s rules is, if not a downright myth, then at least a rare exception among those experiencing street-dwelling homelessness, particularly on a long-term basis.  At a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2401&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/living-proof/</link>
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		<title>Overwhelming Need</title>
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
With winter upon us, it&#8217;s a good time to reflect upon the extremes of need that will exist this year for those who are not yet housed and are living on the street.  I found this entry in my journal from the end of last summer, when I still volunteered at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2383&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/overwhelming-need/</link>
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		<title>Mutuality of Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Mutuality of Ministry
 
&#8220;I am the good shepherd.  I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.”  ~~ John 10: 14-15


&#8220;&#8230;the same Lord who binds us together in love will also reveal himself to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2370&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/mutuality-of-ministry/</link>
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		<title>A Night To Remember: Steve Martin and CDM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, October 28, 2009


A Night to Remember:  Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
An Evening of Bluegrass and Banjo Benefitting Central Dallas Ministries


One of my daughters and I attended the above concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center last evening, and we had a great time.  The hall was sold out, and the concert was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2343&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/a-night-to-remember-steve-martin-and-cdm/</link>
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		<title>Starlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 19, 2009
 
Starlight
 
&#8220;So do not fear,  for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.&#8221;  ~~ Isaiah 41:10 


“Pain is inevitable, misery is optional.”  ~~ Mary Shafer
 
The Shafer clan lost a radiant light when Mary Shafer died this past Wednesday in my hometown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2314&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/starlight/</link>
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		<title>Hard Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, October 7, 2009
 
Hard Questions
 
A friend of mine moved ‘off the street’ today and into housing, and it was big news.  His was a high-profile ‘success’ story, because this particular friend has been living a life of street-dwelling homelessness for quite a long time &#8212; fifteen years &#8212; and he has often been in the news, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2288&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/hard-questions/</link>
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		<title>Available On a Street Corner Near You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, October 1, 2009
 
Available On a Street Corner Near You!
 
Today the October, 2009, issue of StreetZine was put into the hands of licensed street vendors downtown and around the city.  As usual, StreetZine is chock-full of fascinating articles and tidbits, and this month you will also find an important article by Pat Spradley, Editor, on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2266&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/available-on-a-street-corner-near-you/</link>
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		<title>Drawing Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, September 17, 2009
 
Drawing Apart
 
&#8216;And after the fire a sound of sheer silence.&#8217;  I Kings 19: 9-18
 
&#8220;This verse is often taken (not inappropriately) to suggest that we draw apart from the noisy bustle of the world to listen for the voice of the Lord&#8230;
 
But drawing apart from the world is not enough if we take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2260&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/drawing-apart/</link>
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		<title>St. Teresa: The Bookmark Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, September 14, 2009
 
St. Teresa of Avila:  The Bookmark Prayer
 
Let nothing disturb you;
Nothing frighten you.
All things are passing.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Nothing is wanting to him who possesses God.
God alone suffices.
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		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/st-teresa-the-bookmark-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Guess What&#8217;s Illegal!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, September 5, 2009
 
Guess What&#8217;s Illegal!
 
You&#8217;ll never guess what&#8217;s illegal in Dallas these days&#8230;
 
I went to see my friends Mary and Samuel at the home they call their ‘cardboard condo’ under a freeway overpass yesterday.  When I pulled up at the bottom of the hill near their camp, driving a car that is not my own, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2240&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/guess-whats-illegal/</link>
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		<title>Standing in a Circle</title>
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Friday, August 28, 2009
 
Standing in a Circle
 
Imagine that each of us who cares about and works to solve the problem of long-term, street-dwelling homelessness in Dallas is standing in a circle.  In the center of the circle is the problem &#8212; one that is enormous and complex:  it is a given that each of us sees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2224&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/standing-in-a-circle/</link>
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		<title>Solutions: &#8216;The Soloist&#8217; and Housing First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, August 24, 2009
 
Solutions: &#8216;The Soloist&#8217; and Housing First
 
Please take a moment to read these critically important quotes regarding the Housing First concept as a solution to long-term homelessness, from Casey Horan, Executive Director &#8212; LAMP (Los Angeles Men’s Project), in an interview from the movie, The Soloist:
 
&#8220;LAMP is a non profit, and we’re based in Los [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2212&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/solutions-the-soloist-and-housing-first/</link>
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		<title>The Soloist: Friendship and Freedom of Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, August 16, 2009
 
The Soloist:  Friendship and Freedom of Choice
 
&#8220;Let your good deeds be like drops of water into the ocean, which then disappear.” 
 
If you have not seen The Soloist, I hope you will.  A friend who has worked among people on the street for over a decade highly recommended it, saying it changed her view of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2175&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/the-soloist-friendship-and-freedom-of-choice/</link>
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		<title>Ready</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, August 11, 2009


Ready


There&#8217;s a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.


There&#8217;s a void in your soul, ready to be filled.


You feel it, don&#8217;t you?
 
                                            ~~ Rumi
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		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/ready-2/</link>
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		<title>Saving Other People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 30, 2009


Saving Other People
 
Someone said to me a while back that they&#8217;d &#8217;saved&#8217; a person who was homeless by giving them a job.  I was surprised by this assertion and said so.  Do we really save other people?  In a war zone at the point of a gun, perhaps yes.  But when a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2123&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/saving-other-people/</link>
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		<title>Tommy [Not His Real Name]</title>
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Monday, July 20, 2009


Tommy
 
There are occasionally people who impact one&#8217;s life significantly, even if you rarely see them.  For me, Tommy is one of those.
 
Tommy lives on the street and is always alone.  It is said of him that he won&#8217;t talk, but sometimes there are exceptions.  One of the people he&#8217;s always trusted is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2083&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/tommy-not-his-real-name/</link>
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		<title>Reconnecting to &#8216;The Wild&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, July 8, 2008
 
Reconnecting to &#8216;The Wild&#8217;
 
This past Fourth of July weekend, one of my daughters, Rose, and granddaughter, Cora, and I went to Glen Rose, Texas to stay a few days, do the &#8216;Dino&#8217; thing (this granddaughter is six and admires T Rex as much as any six-year-old), and visit Fossil Rim Wildlife Ranch. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2055&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/reconnected-to-the-wild/</link>
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		<title>Mac or No Mac?</title>
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Mac or No Mac?
 
A week and a half ago, my MacBook gave its little all and went &#8216;belly up.&#8217;  Being unplugged was traumatic for the first few days, but then I began to feel surprisingly, exhilaratingly free.
 
However, it&#8217;s not really a possibility to stay unplugged for long in our culture, is it? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2043&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/mac-or-no-mac/</link>
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		<title>Notable Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 23, 2009
 
&#8220;When people show you who they are&#8230;


BELIEVE THEM.&#8221;


~~ Maya Angelou
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		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/notable-quote/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Cost of Poverty&#8217;: Janet Morrison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, June 14, 2009
 
Janet Morrison on &#8216;The Cost of Poverty&#8217;
 
For those who have not come across Janet Morrison&#8217;s Community Dialogue blog, I find it a &#8216;not- to-be-missed&#8217; voice with an eloquence and comprehension of the realities of the inner city and poverty that is rarely heard.
 
http://janetmorrison.blogspot.com/2009/06/cost-of-poverty.html
 
Today&#8217;s post in particular touched me, because it explains so well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2029&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/the-cost-of-poverty-janet-morrison/</link>
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		<title>Peace.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 11, 2009


 
Peace.


It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.  


It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your own heart.


                                   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=2006&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/peace/</link>
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		<title>She Lived!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, June 5, 2009
Warning that this story contains graphic content
 
She Lived!!!
 
Early this week, I went to the two fire stations that responded to the 911 call to help the stabbing victim in the previous post, and learned that the team on duty that Tuesday would also be working a shift yesterday.
http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/life-or-death-on-a-tuesday-2/
 
Returning to the station yesterday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1983&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/she-lived/</link>
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		<title>Life or Death on a Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Warning that this story contains graphic content


Life or Death on a Tuesday
 
This afternoon, I was driving home from a meeting.  One of my daughters and her young children had gone with me, and we were in separate cars on a side street near a freeway, their car about a block ahead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1902&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/life-or-death-on-a-tuesday-2/</link>
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		<title>The Garden Is Growing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 5/15/09
 
The Garden Is Growing!
Update on The Garden: South Dallas, Texas
 


 
The Garden: South Dallas, Texas — a community garden for, by and with people who are homeless or formerly homeless in Dallas — is thriving under the leadership of the Discipleship of the Dallas International Street Church at 2706 Second Avenue near Fair Park.  Team [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1830&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-garden-is-growing-2/</link>
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		<title>Some Things Don&#8217;t Change: Kim Horner &amp; Thackeray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, May 10, 2009
 
Some Things Don’t Change
 
If you haven’t yet read Part 2 in Kim Horner’s series in the Dallas Morning News and seen Courtney Perry&#8217;s moving photographs about chronic homelessness in Dallas, you’ve missed something vital to understanding the complicated picture of this challenging problem.  Kim’s latest piece blends heart and head in the way in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1798&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/some-things-dont-change-kim-horner-thackeray/</link>
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		<title>The Garden-Raising Day, May 2, 2009</title>
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
 
The Garden-Raising Day, May 2, 2009




 
As of today, The Garden: South Dallas, Texas exists on the ground and not just in our minds, hearts, spirits and to-do lists!  And it&#8217;s beautiful.
We had a wonderful day.   Thanks very much to every single person who was involved.
Particular appreciation to The Stewpot of First [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1730&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/the-garden-raising-day-may-2-2009/</link>
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		<title>Dallas International Street Church Gospel Choir</title>
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
 
Dallas International Street Church Gospel Choir
 
My friends Sandy and Oliver have given me, over the last 5-1/2 years, literally carloads of clothing, blankets, shoes, and toiletries that I&#8217;ve given away to our friends who live on the street and under the bridges in Dallas. They are the most ongoing and prolific donors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1688&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/dallas-international-street-church-gospel-choir/</link>
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		<title>The Garden: South Dallas, Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, April 16, 2009


“The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;…”  ~~ Psalm 24
The Garden:  South Dallas, Texas
 



On the morning of April 2, 2009, I blithely put up a blog post here about gardens (&#8220;The Magic of Gardens&#8221;.)  I quote myself from that article:  ”The idea [of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1419&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/the-garden-south-dallas-texas/</link>
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		<title>The Magic of Gardens</title>
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
 
The Magic of Gardens
(Someone, Please Steal This Idea!)
 
I love to garden in the winter, and in our North Texas climate, that is probably a good thing.  One has to get an early start on the Texas heat, and it’s always tricky striking a balance between getting a jump on the drought and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1379&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/the-magic-of-gardens/</link>
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		<title>Hot Off the Presses!  DMN&#8217;S Kim Horner &amp; Courtney Perry</title>
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
 
Hot Off the Presses!
Kim Horner and Courtney Perry of the Dallas Morning News 
on Homelessness in Dallas
 
A friend just brought me the early edition of the Dallas Morning News for Sunday, March 28, 2009, which he knew I&#8217;d want right away.  Front and center on page 1A is the first in a series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1342&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/kim-horner-courtney-perry-dallas-morning-news/</link>
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		<title>With No Conditions</title>
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
 
I clipped this out of The Angelus, my church’s newsletter, several years ago.  Knowing it’s Lent now rather than Advent, still it can speak to us poignantly.  KS
 
With No Conditions
 
“The day after Thanksgiving the New York Times told [the story] of a 33-year-old local cab driver&#8230;  About five years ago, this cabby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1292&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/no-conditions/</link>
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		<title>The Bible and the Birth Certificate</title>
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Friday, March 13, 2009

 
The Bible and the Birth Certificate


a night this week,
rain pours down from the freeway overpass above,
onto cardboard-box houses that are almost empty.
as the water splashes onto my head, 
i think vaguely that it has been under car tires
and must be very dirty.
 
a man from India,
whose face shines near me in the dark 
as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1170&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/the-bible-and-the-birth-certificate/</link>
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		<title>Trust</title>
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Trust
 
When we have solved the problem of homelessness in Dallas, we will know it.  We will not need to ticket, arrest and harass homeless people for being on the streets of our town in order to get them out of sight.  They won’t need to be on the street, because they will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1122&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/trust/</link>
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		<title>Homeward Bound</title>
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
 
Homeward Bound
 
I just got back a couple of hours ago from going with my friend, Soupman (David Timothy), to visit our good friend, Samuel, who lives in a cardboard house.  Tonight, Samuel seemed discouraged.  The police come by every Thursday or Friday and ticket him for ‘sleeping in public’ or ‘littering’, even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1096&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/homeward-bound/</link>
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		<title>Just Like Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, 2/26/09
 
Just Like Us
 
One of the best and kindest people I know &#8212; and definitely the smartest &#8212; is my friend, John.  He’s one of those people you look at and think:  “How does he do it?”  He is a doctor of theology and teaches at a Dallas university.  He speaks six languages, including Latin.  And, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1084&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/just-like-us-2/</link>
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		<title>Solutions:  Warming Stations &amp; Hypothermia Vans</title>
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Monday, February 16, 2009
 
While Dallas city officials have been busy this winter enforcing &#8216;quality of life&#8217; ordinances by ticketing and arresting homeless citizens during the bitterest cold weather, other cities have found more humane solutions to the question of &#8220;Where will homeless people be during cold weather?&#8221; 
 
Here are some links from various cities around the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1017&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/solutions-warming-stations-hypothermia-vans/</link>
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		<title>Dallas International Street Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, February 12, 2009
 
Dallas International Street Church
 
Last Saturday, I had the privilege of eating lunch with Pastor Karen Dudley, founder and head pastor of the Dallas International Street Church on Second Avenue in Dallas and some other friends of people who are homeless in Dallas.  The church had just been shut down by the Dallas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=1011&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/dallas-international-street-church/</link>
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		<title>New Clothes for Mary</title>
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009


New Clothes for Mary
 
I met a new friend tonight, I’ll call her Mary.  Samuel, her street husband, asked me into their lives about a month and a half ago.  ‘My wife, Mary’s, getting out of prison on February 5.  Will you help me get her some clothes together?  She’ll be coming out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=986&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/new-clothes-for-mary/</link>
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		<title>Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, February 2, 2009
 
Man!  Leave it to Henri Nouwen to try to make me better than I want to be or seemingly have the capacity to be.  Just when I&#8217;m feeling impatient in the extreme with the City of Dallas and their treatment of the homeless and the pace of progress regarding change, he hands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=969&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/patience/</link>
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		<title>Thank You, Carlos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, January 30, 2009
 
I have received an email from my friend, Carlos, who is shocked and outraged that the city seizes the private property of homeless citizens and destroys their dwellings during police sweeps and arrests.  Here is what he said in part:


“I read what you wrote about the police destroying the homeless people dwellings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=963&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/thank-you-carlos/</link>
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		<title>Arrested &amp; Jailed:  Sherry Parker, Poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, January 28, 2009
 
Arrested &#38; Jailed
 
Three days after the Bridge closed its courtyard for sleeping and the subsequent police sweeps began, Sherry Parker and her boyfriend, Sarge, were arrested for &#8216;criminal trespass&#8217;, which in this case meant sleeping in public on private property, and spent ten days in jail.  I had heard about this through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=948&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/arrested-and-jailed-sherry-parker-poet/</link>
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		<title>Profiting From Suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, January 24, 2009
 
Profiting From Suffering


“Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, we are committed to cultivating loving kindness and learning ways to work for the well-being of people, animals, plants, and minerals.  We will practice generosity by sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=942&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/profiting-from-suffering/</link>
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		<title>Things That Make You Go &#8216;Hmmm&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, January 17, 2008

Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmm’&#8230;
 
How is it that&#8230;?
 
&#8230;the Dallas Police Department picked 8:00 A.M., Wednesday, January 14, 2009, the coldest day of this winter thus far, to raid the homeless camps outside the city center, destroy people’s cardboard houses, seize their personal belongings and ticket the homeless individuals living there?
 
How is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=862&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/things-that-make-you-go-hmm/</link>
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		<title>&#8230; &#8216;And Now We&#8217;re In the Woods&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, January 15, 2009
 
I&#8217;ve known Scott for years, and, sometimes when I see him, he doesn&#8217;t feel like talking.  Sometimes when he talks, his words are so big and he is so erudite that I have to seek out a dictionary in order to understand him. Today, though, his words were simple and to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=851&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/and-now-were-in-the-woods/</link>
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		<title>Outlawing Homelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, January 9, 2009



I walked into my workout place today, and the manager, a woman of heart and compassion, said to me, “Quality of Life???  Who are they kidding?  Whose quality of life?  These homeless people are human beings!  Is is too much trouble for people walking around downtown to have to look at others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=842&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/outlawing-homelessness/</link>
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		<title>New Blog In Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, January 8, 2008
 
New Blog In Town
 
There&#8217;s a new blog covering the latest news on homelessness in Dallas which I highly recommend.  Here&#8217;s the link:
 
http://dallashomelessnetwork.blogspot.com/


The blogger seems to be making an effort to be non-polemical while still representing an advocacy point of view.  This is much needed in Dallas, as is a frequent update on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=830&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/new-blog-in-town/</link>
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		<title>Powerlessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, December 30, 2008


God &#8216;Unmasks the Illusion of Power&#8217;


&#8216;Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart.&#8217;
~~Matthew 11:29


&#8220;God chose powerlessness.   God chose to enter into human history in complete weakness.  That divine choice forms the center of the Christian faith.  In Jesus of Nazareth, the powerless God appeared among us to unmask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=817&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/powerlessness/</link>
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		<title>We Built It, They Came, Now What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, December 15, 2008
 
We Built It, They Came, Now What?
 
Here I sit in the same cafe where I sat exactly 5 years ago, thinking the exact thoughts I had the first time I went out with HungerBusters Mobile Soup Kitchen to feed the homeless on the streets of Dallas in 2003.  How are the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=794&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/we-built-it-they-came-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Miracle on Second Avenue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, December 11, 2008
 
Miracle on Second Avenue
 
Sometimes, through a benevolent combination of circumstances, you get the privilege of walking straight into the heart of Love, and tonight, at the invitation of my friend David Timothy, AKA SoupMan, I got to do that.
 
For months David had been inviting me to visit the Dallas International Street Church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=769&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/miracle-on-second-avenue/</link>
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		<title>Bitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, December 4, 2008
 
Bitter
 
Last night, armed with a carload of heavy coats and blankets given to us by an Anonymous Angel, I went out on a mission into the heart of downtown Dallas with a good friend.  We went  in search of the city’s homeless people who have been banned from sleeping in the Bridge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=753&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/bitter/</link>
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		<title>Conversation With the DPD: A Good Man Just Doing His Job</title>
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
 
Conversation With a Dallas Police Officer:  A Good Man ‘Just Doing His Job’
 
Last night at 10:35 P.M. I drove downtown to see for myself what was going on with the homeless people who’d been banned from sleeping in the courtyard of the Bridge and were once again sleeping on the street.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=744&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/conversation-with-the-dpd-a-good-man-just-doing-his-job/</link>
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		<title>The Bridge Closing Its Courtyard for Sleeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, December 1, 2008



The Bridge Closes Its Courtyard For Sleeping:  The Rest of the Story
 
I have been a consistent and vocal supporter of the Bridge homeless assistance center since its opening in May, 2008, and have believed that, even with the glitches and challenges in getting it up and running that have been widely reported, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=729&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-bridge-closing-its-courtyard-for-sleeping/</link>
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		<title>Displacement and Community</title>
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Reflecting upon the sense of community I often feel at the Bridge homeless assistance center in the Second Chance Cafe, I came across the following.  There can scarcely be a more displaced group than the homeless community, and yet so often it feels like family to me, even when, like this evening, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=711&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/displacement-voluntary-and-otherwise/</link>
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		<title>Twenty-Nine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, November 25, 2008
 
Twenty-Nine



“Do you think that you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.
 
The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.
 
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=665&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/full-of-sound-and-fury-signifying/</link>
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		<title>Economic Reality at Wilkinson Center Food Pantry&#8217;s Doorstep</title>
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Brian Burton, Executive Director of the Wilkinson Center in East Dallas, writes a mean fund-raising letter. Even after totaling up my credit card debt this week and nearly falling off the chair, I read this and found myself writing out a [pitifully small] check.  Brian&#8217;s also one of the nicest people around, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=641&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/economic-reality-at-food-pantrys-doorstep/</link>
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		<title>Another &#8216;S.T.E.P.&#8217; in the Right Direction</title>
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Here is a recent good-news email from Jean Jones, Director of Volunteers at the Stewpot:
 
Nov. 11, 2008, 4:31 PM

Dear Stew Pot Volunteers:
A story of success and hope we want to share…
 
Last Friday, during the lunch meal service, a big six foot, 40-something guest named Mike literally skipped into the dining hall, his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=624&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/another-step-in-the-right-direction/</link>
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		<title>Guest Commentary:  Robert Blass</title>
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Freedom Of Or From Religion?  What Does It Mean?
 
Freedom of or from religion?  What does it mean?  It means we are a nation of choices. It means we are a democratic nation with the freedom to choose or not choose what God, Bible or written word we follow. We are a multi-culture and multi-religious country.
 
Freedom of choice, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=613&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/guest-commentary-robert-blass/</link>
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		<title>The Urgent Importance of Parent Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, November 1, 2008
 
The Urgent Importance of Parent Education
 
When I say I think there&#8217;s no social issue that&#8217;s more important than parent education, I mean it literally.
 
Have you ever been in a grocery store and seen a parent jerking or smacking around a child?  Have you struggled with how to intervene without making the situation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=587&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/the-urgent-importance-of-parent-education/</link>
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		<title>Reflecting Upon &#8216;Freedom in Exile&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 27, 2008


Reflecting Upon &#8216;Freedom In Exile&#8217;


I&#8217;m a little behind the times.  I am only just completing reading the Dalai Lama&#8217;s autobiography, Freedom in Exile, which came out in 1990.  I think it should be required reading for anyone interested in modern history and human rights, which ideally would be all of us.  Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=541&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/reflecting-upon-freedom-in-exile/</link>
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		<title>Looking for, and Finding, Good Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 20, 2008
 

Looking For, and Finding, Good Things
 
As he came through the food line at the Bridge last week, Max (not his real name) leaned in to whisper in my ear when I handed him his plate, “I need to talk to you outside after dinner.”  “Sure,” I said, “Meet you out there.”
 
The service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=495&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/looking-for-and-finding-good-things/</link>
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		<title>Practices for Mindful Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 13, 2008
 
A few of Thich Nhat Hanh&#8217;s suggested practices for mindful living in our contemporary world:
 
&#8220;~~  Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering.  Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world.  Find ways to be with those who are suffering, by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=469&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/suffering-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Reggie&#8217;s Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, October 6, 2008

       Reggie Crawford, with whom I’m privileged to work when I volunteer at The Bridge homeless assistance center,  is one of the most inspiring and compassionate individuals I’ve met in a while.  I appreciate that Reggie and Street Zine have given me permission to reprint his story here.  KS
 

STEP Transformed Plan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=438&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/reggies-story-2/</link>
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		<title>If You Have Been Given Gifts, Use Them</title>
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Monday, September 29, 2008
 
If You Have Been Given Gifts, Use Them!
 
Yesterday evening we at Church of the Incarnation (Episcopal) instituted and inducted our new rector (senior pastor), The Right Reverend Anthony J. Burton, formerly Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatchewan, Canada.  The service was beautiful and quite moving and was presided over by the The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=396&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/if-you-have-been-given-gifts-use-them/</link>
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		<title>The Poorest of the Poor and Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journal Archives
Friday, 2/24/06                                                                                                          [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=367&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/the-poorest-of-the-poor-and-forgiveness/</link>
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		<title>Favorite Underdog Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, September 18, 2008
 
Paul Potts:  Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, 2007
 
This is my favorite &#8216;underdog&#8217; story.  (The look on Simon Cowell&#8217;s face is worth the viewing.)
What&#8217;s yours?
 
Paul Pott&#8217;s initial audition on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, 2007&#8230;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
 
the Semi-Finals&#8230;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDB9zwlXrB8&#38;feature=related
 
and the Winner is&#8230;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWvuMJV0Yw&#38;feature=related
 
I listen to his CD, One Chance, almost every day, and I&#8217;ve had it for many months!
KS
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		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/favorite-underdog-story/</link>
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		<title>The &#8216;Way&#8217;</title>
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The &#8216;Way&#8217;
 

 “The mystery of the ‘Way’ [in Taoism] can never be explained or named, but we can live it.  No matter what we think, say, or do we are embraced by the ‘Way.’&#8230;   [It] is infinitely compassionate, supporting and nurturing even in our ignorance, but we cannot truly be wholly nourished until we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=339&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-way/</link>
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		<title>Sleeping On the Hard Streets of Dallas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, September 9, 2008
 
Sleeping Among the Homeless on the Hard Streets of Dallas
by David Timothy (AKA SoupMan)
 
In 2003, on a wing and a prayer (s) I started a nonprofit charity called the SoupMobile. We are a &#8216;mobile&#8217; soup kitchen that feeds the homeless in the Dallas area. In those five years we have progressed from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=316&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/sleeping-on-the-hard-streets-of-dallas/</link>
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		<title>In the Midst of Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regarding people who are homeless in Dallas&#8230;
 
&#8220;We are called to serve them. They are the least of these in our community, and Jesus has taken up residence with them, according to the gospel, and he is to be found in their midst. We exist to serve Christ, and according to Matthew 25, that&#8217;s where Christ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=283&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/in-the-midst-of-them/</link>
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		<title>Pregnant and On the Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current Journal
Tuesday, 8/19/08
 
I had this experience two years ago.  I befriended a young street couple;  the woman was pregnant.  I tried in vain to help them find temporary housing.  The short version of the story was that I spent many hours calling every nonprofit I’d ever heard of on their behalf (they didn’t have access [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=263&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/pregnant-and-on-the-street/</link>
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		<title>Guest Commentary by Pat Spradley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, August 14, 2008
 
America, The Land of Unequal Opportunity

by Pat Spradley
 
Homeless people are not all the same.
Homeless people are not all the same. There are some who for some reason, no matter what you do, will never break out of the homeless trap they are in. That might be due to mental illness, drug use, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=248&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/guest-commentary-by-pat-spradley/</link>
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		<title>Progress, Not Perfection:  Working Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, August 6, 2008
 
Advocating for Mutual Respect and Communication in Solving Homelessness in Dallas
 
At a recent nonprofit event, during a conversation with someone affiliated with the sponsoring organization, that individual began to speak negatively &#8212; and not quietly &#8212; about the performance of an agency partnering with her own on a large project.  Attacking the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=181&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/progress-not-perfection-working-together/</link>
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		<title>Post Removed:  Please Read Note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, August 4, 2008
 
From Thich Nhat Hanh:
       ~~Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step
 
[I am very sorry to report that I have had to remove this post about extreme poverty in other parts of the world because of continued and extremely objectionable spam it has generated coming into the spam blocker of this blog. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=167&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/defiled-or-immaculate/</link>
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		<title>Desiree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 25, 2008
 
I have long since learned that I can’t save people, or so I tell myself.  So I go to the Bridge to help serve dinner on Friday nights to listen to the people there who are homeless and catch up on their news, to express my love for them and, most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=147&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/desiree/</link>
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		<title>Mayor Tom Leppert Volunteers at the Bridge</title>
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Last Friday evening, July 18, 2008, Mayor Tom Leppert joined a group of volunteers and Stewpot staff to serve dinner to over 700 homeless people at the Bridge, Dallas&#8217; new homeless assistance center.  Typical of the mayor, he was &#8216;hands on&#8217; with his service, working behind the line filling plates, then moving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=120&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/mayor-tom-leppert-volunteers-at-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Successes at the Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 7/11/08
 
I was walking around the dining room tonight, serving water during the last part of dinner at the Bridge.  When I sat down by J., a woman I know who has been on the street for many years, to ask her how things were going, I guess I was unconsciously expecting her to say, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=75&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/successes-at-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Slavery Today:  Buying and Selling Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, July 9, 2008
 
Did you know that, by one account, there are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in history?  27 million.  Many of them are children.  If there’s a topic nearer to my heart than homelessness, it’s the deplorable plight of so many children world wide.
Last night, ABC News&#8217; Nightline did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=73&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/slavery-today-buying-and-selling-children/</link>
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		<title>Changes at the Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, June 30, 2008
Here is the link for a Dallas Morning News article of Saturday, 6/28/08.  The article states that Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, which runs the Bridge, has terminated its contract with PATH Partners, the contractor hired to offer social services at the facility.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-thebridge_28met.ART0.North.Edition1.4e0188c.html
Since it opened May 20, the Bridge has been sleeping 700 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=68&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/changes-at-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Street Voices:  Sherry Parker, Poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, June 27, 2008                                                                                                       [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=67&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/street-voices-sherry-parker-poet/</link>
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		<title>The Pheasant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
       ‘The pheasant in the marshes has to take ten steps in order to get one beakful of food, one hundred steps for one drink of water.  Yet it doesn’t want to be kept in a cage.  Though it would be fed like a king, it would not be happy.’

         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=66&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/self-care/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;F&#8217; Is For &#8216;Family&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Current Journal                                                                                                           [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=64&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/f-is-for-family/</link>
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		<title>Used, But Never Filled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four
 
The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled.
Oh, unfathomable source of ten thousand things!
Blunt the sharpness,
Untangle the knot,
Soften the glare,
Merge with dust.
Oh, hidden deep but ever present!
I do not know from whence it comes.
It is the forefather of the emperors.
 
 ~~Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
 
Dedicated to Tim Russert, who did great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=63&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/used-but-never-filled/</link>
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		<title>Puppies From Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journal Archives
February, 2007
 
Poochie and Quiet Storm
I was sitting behind a table in the parking lot of the Day Resource Center.  The table was filled with giveaway clothing, and homeless people were filing by, picking out the two items they were allowed.  A woman, very quiet, stood in front of me, looking at items, tentatively holding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=61&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/puppies-from-heaven/</link>
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		<title>Accessorize, Accessorize, Accessorize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 8, 2008
 
“Maybe the best any of us can do is not quit,
        play the hand we’ve been given,
                and accessorize the outfit we’ve got.”
 
                                           [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=59&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/accessorize-accessorize-accessorize/</link>
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		<title>Unity, Harmony and Constructive Dissent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 4, 2008
Unity, Harmony and Constructive Dissent
It’s strange where one’s challenges come from in caring about people in Dallas who are homeless.  In the past, they’ve usually come from seeing the terrible vulnerability of people living on the street, or from fighting city hall, or in the pain of hearing homeless people negatively stereotyped.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=57&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/unity-harmony-and-constructive-dissent/</link>
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		<title>The Dalai Lama:  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
~~by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
 
As a Buddhist monk, my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=55&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/nobel-prize-acceptance-speech-the-dalai-lama/</link>
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		<title>Wrestling and Other Conversations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, 5/31/08
Last night after the evening meal at the Bridge, I left the dining hall and was wandering around the campus when a couple of guys said hi, and I stopped to talk, sitting down beside them on a low concrete wall by the pavilion.
One man, Cullen, who seems very well-educated, has entered a work-to-housing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=53&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/wrestling-and-other-conversations/</link>
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		<title>Harmony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
      &#8220;Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;  and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord;  and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.&#8221;
                             [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=52&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/harmony/</link>
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		<title>Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
       &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;d like to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when He could do something about it&#8230;  but I&#8217;m afraid God might ask me the same question.&#8221;
                                         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=51&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/question/</link>
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		<title>Dinner at The Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, 5/24/08
Last night I helped with the evening food service at the Bridge, the new homeless assistance center in downtown Dallas.  Along with Our Calling Ministries, with whom I’ve worked at the Day Resource Center for the past couple of years, and  teaming up with David Timothy, AKA SoupMan of SoupMobile Mobile Soup Kitchen, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=50&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/dinner-at-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>The Bridge Is Open!</title>
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This past Tuesday, May 20 was a momentous day for Dallas and its homeless citizens.  A new, $23 million, state-of-the-art homeless assistance center, The Bridge, opened in downtown.  Here is a letter from David Timothy of SoupMobile describing the ribbon-cutting ceremony and the facility.
 

Subject: Report from the SoupMan to SoupMobile Advisory Board
Date: May 21, 2008 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=49&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/the-bridge-is-open/</link>
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		<title>A Middle-Class Homeless Crisis in Dallas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog received a comment on the post entitled &#8220;Broken&#8221; from a friend in my church, Church of the Incarnation (Episcopal) that I hope you&#8217;ll go back and check out (May 15, 2008.  Click on &#8216;Comments&#8217; at the bottom of the post.)  
May I just say&#8230;I love my church, not only because it is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=48&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/a-middle-class-homeless-crisis-in-dallas/</link>
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		<title>Authority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[       &#8220;True authority does not issue edicts to suppress men&#8217;s personal judgment or render its action unnecessary, but it is like the authority of a parent, which invigorates and encourages, even while it restrains and guides the growth of our own individuality.&#8221;
                         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=46&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/authority/</link>
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		<title>Broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journal Archives
Thursday, 12/22/05
I was out with the mobile soup kitchen on a feeding run tonight, and unlike most nights, the vibe was strained on the truck.  For starters, I’d arisen from my sick bed to show up for the commitment I’d previously made, realizing that in the past few weeks I’ve been writing about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=45&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/broken/</link>
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		<title>Liturgy and Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
       “Do you wish to honor the Body of Christ?  Then do not allow it to be scorned in its members, in the poor, who have nothing to clothe themselves with.  Do not honor him in church with silk and then neglect him outside when he is cold and naked&#8230;.  
       [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=44&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/liturgy-and-action/</link>
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		<title>Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Loverly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Loverly?
 
All I want is a room somewhere, 
Far away from the cold night air.
With one enormous chair, 
Aow, wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly? 
 
Lots of choc&#8217;lates for me to eat, 
Lots of coal makin&#8217; lots of &#8216;eat.
Warm face, warm &#8216;ands, warm feet,
Aow, wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly? 
 
Aow, so loverly sittin&#8217; abso-bloomin&#8217;-lutely still. 
I would never budge &#8217;till spring 
Crept over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=42&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/wouldnt-it-be-loverly/</link>
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		<title>Services Provided by The Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
Here&#8217;s a link to the website of a group of people who have generously allowed me to work with them on Friday nights at the Day Resource Center for the last couple of years while they serve dinner and give away clothing.  They provided me with a way to give away the clothing I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=41&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/services-provided-by-the-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Suffering and Compassion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suffering and Compassion
       “Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other&#8230;We can nurture the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return and therefore does not lead to anxiety and sorrow&#8230;. The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the&#8230;suffering of others, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=40&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/suffering-and-compassion/</link>
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		<title>Worthy or Unworthy&#8230;Is That the Question?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It’s not about whether people are deserving. It’s about our compassion.”
Journal Archives
Monday, 5/9/05
When the subject of  the homeless comes up in general conversation, people frequently want to discuss ‘Unworthy Homeless Persons I Have Encountered.’  Often that single, and sometimes unpleasant, experience with a street person becomes a certain knowledge of the ‘ubiquitous homeless.’  The &#8217;shiftless&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=39&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/worthy-or-not-is-that-the-question/</link>
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		<title>Leadership:  Go To the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Go to the people.
Live with them.
Learn from them&#8230;
Start with what they know;
Build with what they have.
But with the best leaders,
When the work is done,
The task accomplished,
The people will say,
We have done this ourselves!”
Lao Tzu (700 B.C.)
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		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/leadership-go-to-the-people/</link>
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		<title>The Stewpot Calls for Volunteers, Donations at The Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from the current newsletter of The Stewpot, &#8220;In As Much&#8221;:
&#8220;Dear Friends,
Many of you have stepped forward in the fight against hunger.  We ask that you go another round&#8230;.
No knockout punch will be thrown in this ring.  This fight is about endurance.  It&#8217;s about compassion.
The Stewpot will continue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com&blog=2860009&post=37&subd=theintermittentvolunteer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://theintermittentvolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-stewpot-calls-for-volunteers-at-the-bridge-and-donations/</link>
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