Becoming an ally with the Beatitudes

RantWoman lately has been called to articulate the concept of ally in terms of both people with disabilities and survivors of abuse / assault / trauma. RantWoman has actually been making this point in sort of scathing terms in email. RantWoman is seasoning whether the blogosphere needs exactly those terms and might respond to a groundswell of clamor from her readers to spell out... . RantWoman is all too conscious that Friends around her:

1. Have not even registered a need to talk of what is on RantWoman's mind. Remember Put it Off Until It's More Convenient Friends number n, n+1...?

2. Are likely, if they register the point, to ask RantWoman what the heck she is talking about.

3. MAY find RantWoman less than completely prepared. Or even whiny, ill-tempered, ungracious. MAYBE if RantWoman reads enough of laboring with.. in John Woolman...

Yeah, and in the meantime RantWoman recommends starting here
http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2012/01/31/pass-the-toothpicks-becoming-an-ally-with-the-beatitudes/
and with related links on the YAR blog.



One test, for RantWoman, of whether she has made good choices about blog roll relates to finding links that also speak to her.
http://bloggerbyconvincement.blogspot.com/2012/01/afterthought-1.html
If one depends on 2000 people every day, RantWoman thinks that can be a lot of laboring with ignorance if too many of those one depends on are getting something WRONG.


RantWoman will now return to worship and seek further Light.
http://www.quakerinfo.org/quakerism/worship