Canada is suffering from a severe identity crisis, which holds the Aboriginal nations, the English and the French in a constant tension of disunity, seeking the proper way to make it into unity. This condition is known as the national unity crisis.
Of Course, the answer I propose is to grow as a mature people of all people, by the Faith we are given to do so, in Christ-Jesus.
The approach I use, is to work towards the setting up of a 24/7 community centre, from where we will host and document the healing of domestic oppression and violence.
Once we have accumulated enough documentation, we will hire writers, producers, directors and actors to docu-dramatise our documentation into televised series.
The context of the project is rooted in the province of Alberta Canada, where we celebrated its first century of existance in 2005.
Alberta was built with 3 Klondikes (gold rushes). The first one was the precious metal's gold rush, the second was the green gold of agriculture and the third is the black gold of fossil fuels.
During the second one, Alberta grew to become what is known in certain circles as the "bible belt" of Canada.
The other 2 klondikes attrackted much of the people in search for adventure, temporal pleasures and power.
And so, it is in the hope to see this community centre project through, from conception to maturity in Christ and on the air to grow as a means for the healing of Canadian people's unity by the Holy Spirit that I wrote these 2 songs, as themes of the project's description and direction...
INVISIBLE GOLD RUSH
OF BEING
ALBERTAN
2005 was the year when
I turned one hundred years old!
One century spent to define
the life within brand new borders,
where borders had never existed before,
but where nations had flourished for thousands of years,
and in 1905 the time had arrived
for the Empire to stretch to the west
in hope for improvement.
When I was named as a Canadian province,
John Campbell wrote to his wife:
“In token of the love which thou has shown for this wide land of freedom,
I have named a province vast
and for its beauty famed by thy dear name.”
Thus was I introduced to the nations,
with a name of the 4th daughter of Queen Victoria
Alberta is my name,
t’was inspired with honour
from a man’s love for his wife,
known to be strong, artistic with exquisite taste!
That couple was forward- looking people,
concerned for the less fortunate.
With the name I was given, I am well positioned
to avoid the Eastern mistakes of the Empire.
I’ve now been led past the threshold,
at the top of the material world.
Not long before my centennial,
the Empire was dragged into terror.
And so if I am to celebrate
It must be from a wise vision of humility
and of service for mankind. Because,
there’s just no time to pretend that all is well
the way it is.
Let the ones who are and who will be me
into Life’s sacred fire, the invisible gold rush….
thus, entering the celebration that never ends,
the celebration in the Spirit of Life,
Oh nobly bright and illustrious…
Radiant of the Spirit of justice, peace and joy…
And so from Emily Murphy to Betty Hewes
to Jan Arden to Lois Hole
from Grant MacEwan to Ian Tyson
from the Mannix and Manning families…
We can see through my past century
enough potency of meaning for anyone
to catch on fire in the Faith and
Hope that settles our humanity
Into the simplicity…
Of the majesty we are all created to be
living in,
the majesty of the Eternal,
who‘s love secures my destiny
in the meaning of my name:
“Nobly bright and illustrious”…is what Alberta means…
Such Albertan I grow to be
by the Spirit of wisdom and love,
as I care for the less fortunate…
Benoit Couture
© Subsence Publishing and Promotion
CALL to CANADA
Could we reach the agreement that it’s the whole world
who is in need to see a place like Canada
to show that free will can be a good thing.
In 1945 we were invited to join a deal.
Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans.
After sixty one years, great challenges are facing us.
The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after.
We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I,
while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions.
We’ve got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use
and bring about that sense of belonging,
bonded beyond the business fences.
Maybe we haven’t understood that prosperity only comes to us
from who we are together and not from what we do to each other.
We have all it takes to become heaven on earth;
we have been blessed with wealth, now let’s lead wealth to prosperity.
Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that the Renewing Covenant is unity for the human race…
Benoit Couture © Subsence Publishing and Promotion
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Intimacy of Peace
The intimate quality of Peace is born from the safety of inner justice.
Inner justice is the gift of God, offered in the divine ministry of reconciliation, in which we, humans, find forgiveness and the deliverance from what we are forgiven!
As I grow in the land of inner justice, peace becomes my home. God's cultivation of who I am, takes me from the militant march of peer pressure to the radiant dance of joy, where BEING governs HAVING and DOING!
As my intimacy heats up with my own Inner Peace, I am then equipped to get on the journey from stranger to family. Knowing my own limitations, I am content to love my neighbour as myself, rising gracefully in the flow of the Spirit from each one's inner most being.
The task at hand, is to overcome evil with good coupled with the courage to grow in the authenticity of love; that is the personal and communal experience of The Intimate quality of Peace born in the strength of God's inner justice....amen!!!
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EXPLAINING MYSELF IN CONTEXT OF THE INTERNET'S POTENTIAL
Dear all,
A while back, I've been invited to join the value-networks-analysis
google group. They are a group of IT businees development experts.
Here is the entry I offered in a discussion titled: "Google is Evil-
Google is good".
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The picture that comes to mind as I go on reading this thread
amongst global workers and experts discussing google's role, brings
up a scene of value DNA cultivation.
It is pointing in the direction of the potential for value
activation by network development. This suggestion can be viewed as
the mapping of lifelong interest into Health-Education-Correction,
where all markets can find the common denominator of secured local-
global movement and high-trust connectivity, by cultivating the
grounded value DNA of each connection. Google's responsibility
along with Microsoft and yahoo and all other participants of IT's
evolution, is to serve and to secure the co-ordination the local-
global's connectivity from conflict resolution to the feeding of a
mature people of all people.
Helping to facilitate the quality of human interaction and well
being is what google can and does help with. How to secure such
unfolding, is how google and the rest of IT giants can serve the
East-West and North-South human reconciliation. The China-google
situation awaits such maturity from decision makers of governments
and of the market-financial, instead of moving on with
the "enslaving freedom" currently going out of control as the G8 pre-
meeting in Germany is showing to the whole world to face up to!
As an example of what I mean to say, here is a letter I sent this
week, to a friend from my home town, 2500 miles away. We got to know
each other quite well here, in Alberta in 1978, while previously,
back home, we did not know each other personally.
He moved back to Québec in the 80s and I stayed back. He is English
in a French province and I am French in an English province of
Canada. Our interaction got cultivated by the nutrients and
fertilizers offered by the manure of the Canadian national unity
crisis, which we both experience first hand as a result of the
simple reason mentioned above. Here is that letter:
Salut Mark,
Good to hear from you. As of April, 07 we've moved a few blocks
directly North from where you and Mike lived in Norwood. We are at
123 avenue and 95 st. We went from $510 a month to $1600 a month.
The entity of terror-anti-terror is hungry and feeding in a hurry.
Very few escape. Alberta is at the front line of supplying that
entity, sitting at the top of the energy production and drowning in
the addictions of the material world.
I am still searching for the means to get a 24/7 community center
going. It will serve by fostering the alliance between Restorative
Justice and Community Mental Health.
The idea is to offer a location where a lifestyle of lifelong of
Health-Education-Correction gets cultivated in the passage from the
spiritual division of human DNA to the organic experience of
spiritual unity.
This experience is the simplification of all christian history
into "The Perpetual Celebration of Easter" upon "The Land of
Immanuel". That simplification is the coming on of Chrismas and
Easter all year around, as God has always meant it to be.
Once we get a prototype ready, we shall then expand into a scaling
up of franchises, tapping into the contextual potential offered by
the Canadian national unity crisis, learning to feed the void with
the spiritual substance of healing the meaning.
The activation process of the community center is the development of
the victory over stress and over the compulsive human nature. The
disciplines of music and the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine
hosting all other medicines are the main tools for that victory to
grow.
Then we proceed with the social policy to deploy the universal
adaptation of the Recovery Road from self-destruction to self-
control and community self-government.
Once that the scaling up begins, the community centers take on the
common denominator of "The Faculty of Living" where all human
experience, knowledge, sciences and faculties are invited into
completion of one another's assembling, from out of competition.
A mature people of all people are then set to serve with this socio-
cultural venture by becoming the point of focus for the econo-
political forces to facilitate the move toward sustainability.
This gets done by easing the emergence of the Personal Sector within
the rise of the clarity of transparency being fostered by the
community centers.
The Personal Sector rises up like the sunshine of collective
decision-making, replacing the backroom deals that are protected in
the public sector by official secrecy and by the codes of silence of
the private sector.
Heal Canada with a strong Personal Sector and the nations of the
world will have somewhere to look in order to see how and where to
go for each one's own healing.
That pretty well sums up where I am at in my thoughts, hoping to
make some inroads soon into spreading the practice of such lifestyle
of lifelong Health-Education-Correction.
In case you are interested or curious about Traditional Chinese
Medicine, here are some starting points to look at:
http://www.tcmbasics.com/channels_12reg.htmhttp://www.tcmbasics.com/basics_5elements.htmThe person who supplies me with herbs and teaching is at:
http://www.naturalherbalproducts.com/Also, I can't remember if I sent you the following regarding the
fraud of the current corporate accounting systems, as you wrote
about, and the solution to it, being practiced by GM, Toyota, IKEA,
Johnson and Johnson...all receiving these renewing accounting
services by Chris Macrae and his dad:
http://intangibles-valuation.blogspot.com/...may all blessings be with us all...
Benoit
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...seeking the best...
Benoit
