{"id":21500,"date":"2022-07-21T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:58:24","slug":"no-scarcity-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21500","title":{"rendered":"No Scarcity of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOBIPb-6PTc\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rosemarie\nFreeney Harding (1930\u20132004) was a spiritual leader in the Black Freedom\nMovement of the 1960s. Her Mennonite faith shaped her commitment to radical\nhospitality, healing, and transformation. She describes the interracial\ncommunity she and her husband Vincent formed at Mennonite House in\nAtlanta:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my first tasks as a young organizer in the Southern Freedom Movement was developing an interracial social service project and community center called Mennonite House in Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1960s. . . . In addition to our work of placing volunteers with various movement organizations, training young activists, and coordinating early efforts at interracial dialogue and reconciliation, Mennonite House became an important place of retreat for many who were struggling and sacrificing so much to transform the South and the nation. Sometimes movement people would call us from the bus station, and [my husband] Vincent would drive over and pick them up, and they\u2019d stay for a few days or a few weeks, because they needed a place to get some rest. Because of my mother\u2019s example, <strong>I understood very clearly how important it was to have spaces of refuge in the midst of struggle. Spaces of joy and laughter, good food and kind words. In fact, this kind of compassionate care is a transformative force in itself. As the Cape Breton novelist Alistair MacLeod [1936\u20132014] writes, \u201cWe are all better when we\u2019re loved.\u201d <\/strong>[1] . . .&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black people in Atlanta were intrigued with Mennonite\nHouse. This was something new\u2014an interracial social service project tied to the\nfreedom movement, where most of the volunteers were white and the directors\nwere Black, and everybody lived together in the same house. In 1961, this was\ndefinitely new. Seeing my husband and me in the leadership roles made Black\nfolks glad and proud. And it impressed them to know that our church (which most\nhad never heard of) had sent us to represent the denomination. I didn\u2019t realize\nthe significance of all of this until later. I was just happy to be there. . .\n.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 1960s, Mennonite House was one of the\nplaces, perhaps one of the few, where interracial conversation and community\nwas being consciously created in the South.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Freeney Harding\u2019s activism\nwas inspired by her abiding and mystical experience of God\u2019s love and justice.\nRachel Harding recalls her mother\u2019s vision:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no scarcity. <strong>There is no shortage. No lack of love,&nbsp;<br> of compassion, of joy in the world. There is enough.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><br> There is more than enough.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only fear and greed make us think otherwise.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one need starve. There is enough land and enough food.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> No one need die of thirst. There is enough water. No one&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> need live without mercy. <strong>There is no end to grace. And we&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> are all instruments of grace. The more we give it, the more&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> we share it, the more we use it, the more God makes. There&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> is no scarcity of love. There is plenty. And always more.<\/strong>&nbsp; This is the universe my mother lived in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Young&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rest in My presence. When you relax in my presence, you demonstrate your trust in Me. When you lean on and trust Me, I delight in your confidence. Many turn away when they are exhausted, thinking I demand energy. In fact, trusting in Me provides energy. Trust and rest in Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 91:1  <br><strong>Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proverbs 3:3 AMP  <br><strong>Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you<\/strong>&nbsp;[instead let these qualities define you]; Bind them [securely] around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah30:15 AMP  <br>For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel has said this,<strong>&nbsp;\u201cIn returning [to Me] and rest you shall be saved, In quietness and confident trust is your strength.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;But you were not willing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930\u20132004) was a spiritual leader in the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s. Her Mennonite faith shaped her commitment to radical hospitality, healing, and transformation. 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