just something cool

Just started a new book I got, not exactly light entertainment but its interesting - 'Justice, Mercy and Humility', about poverty and issues surrounding it, and how Christianity relates, or at least should(!) to it. So yeah - read this and it just jumped out as good, maybe it wont for you..but then its my blog!!! ;o)

'We have been learning from our grass-roots involvement with poor communities. We have learned the importance of the participation of the poor in the process of development. We have learned the need for mutual transformation. We have learned that sustainable development is as much about empowerment, the restoration of dignity and attitudinal change as it is about the provision of physical products and services. We have learned that development is time-intensive rather than capital intensive. We have learned, above all, that development is about building and rebuilding relationships - with God, with others in community and with creation.'