A Pigeon On The Grey Cement

Pigeon On The Grey Cement Wobble Up To Me, I Have An Unsalted Cracker For You. Just you here? Where's your family? Across the way; at the fountain, drinking water? You thirsty? Your eyes are black like the buffalo. Gotta go. See you again tomorrow. Big CTA Bus. Run little pigeon. Fly a little. Try a little. Over to the fountain. Blue, black, gray and white pigeon - where'd you come from? Where do you hide your eggs? Don't get smashed on the asphalt. Tweetie, Twittle. Gosh. Wonder where you'll sleep tonight. I'll look for you again tomorrow; you'll be here as you have been for the last 50 years. All you see are the shoes on people's feet; all day long. They're so mean to you; too.

Concerned Citizens

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Famous Cultural Anthropologist, Margaret Mead

A New Movement

   "I would like to propose a solution to the hate that I see between people of differing opinions in the United States.  I have opinions in politics and religion, and if I am not careful, I will argue with people having different opinions; but, I have come to the conclusion that, in spite of our difference of opinion most people are good people who only want the best for themselves and others.

    What concerns me is the way some people hate those that have a different opinion. Hate is a terrible thing. Hate serves no useful purpose. Hate is destructive. Hate hurts the hater far more than it hurts the person being hated. When you hate someone, it destroys your inner being, slowly but surely.

     Love is the answer to hate. With love you can understand why the other person believes the way they do, even if you disagree with them. It is better to lose an argument and end up being right, than it is to think you won the argument and continue to live in a lie. With love, if the other person is wrong, then they may listen to you when they see that you are willing to listen to them. Love is the answer, I sincerely believe. Let's spread this message of love everywhere." - Frank DeLucca

Rev. William Huntington

     "Only those who heard William Huntington preach can have any idea of the greatness of his mind in spiritual things, or can ever feel what those felt who heard the glorious truths of the gospel from his own lips.  I shall never forget the impression I received under the first sermon I heard from him.  I could only weep and pray.  I felt an inexpressible awe.  His writings give but a faint idea of this truly wonderful and holy man. His power as a preacher was seldom equaled, never surpassed." - Rev. Samuel Adams

Perfect Freedom

    "Thus am I free.  If I look to the law, the handwriting is blotted out, and nailed to his cross.  If I look to the book of God's remembrance, the debt is cancelled, and God will remember my sins no more.  If I look to justice, that is satisfied, and God is just in forgiving me my sins, and in cleansing me from all unrighteousness; nor is he unrighteous to forget my works of faith and labours of love; nor will his justice forbid me the crown of righteousness when I have finished my warfare; no, the righteous Judge will give it me in that day.  If I look to Christ, I am complete in him; if I look to God the Father, it is he that justified me; and, if I look to my infirmities within, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me, for my soul hates evil.  My will is sanctified, 'I would do good.'  My mind is renewed; 'with the mind I myself serve the law of God.'  My affections are satisfied; I delight in the law of God after the inward man.  I will glory therefore in my infirmities, for they drive me from all confidence in the flesh, and make me cleave the closer to Christ and rejoice in him, they keep me humble, watchful, and grateful, to my Saviour for so great a salvation.  I have renounced all that I was and all that I had, and have received Christ as all in me and all to me.  I am a dead man in his death and in the law; and, as such, he took possession of me, and I live by him; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, shines out of me, speaks by me.  I fill up the measure of his suffering in my flesh, and his strength is made perfect in my weakness; his wisdom is displayed in my ignorance, his beauty in my deformity, and his matchless grace in my preservation and salvation, and in the salvation of all that believe on his name.  "For me to live is Christ (for he lives in me), and to die is gain," for Christ is the portion of my soul, and my all in all.  'He that is dead is freed from sin.' Amen."  -  Rev. William Huntington, (1745-1813)