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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Dark Night of the Soul - Psalm 88 and the Cry of Faith
The following is an old sermon I preached in Grenada, Mississippi in 2001. It is offered for a number of reasons but mostly for a friend. It deals with some "stout" material for this time of year but it is my prayer it will be a blessing. May it be so.
Dark Night of the Soul
Psalm 88
September 23, 2001 P.M.
The fact of suffering has always been one of the greatest challenges to the Christian faith. Its distribution and degree seems random and unfair. People have always asked how this is to be reconciled with God's justice and his love. Those are fair questions.On November 1, 1755 an earthquake devastated Lisbon, Portugal. Being All Saints Day, the churches were packed and thirty of them were destroyed. Within six minutes over 15,000 people died and 15,000 were dying. The world was shocked!
One of the stunned was the brilliant French writer and philosopher Voltaire. How could anyone believe in the benevolence and omnipotence of God now? He wrote a protest called "Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon." Later he wrote a novel called Candide which is a brilliant satire on the notion that the world we live in is the best of all possible worlds. The book recounts the adventures of an ingenious young man, Candide, whose teacher, Dr. Pangloss, is a Professor of Optimism and keeps blandly assuring him that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." He maintains this in the face of successive misfortunes.
When they are shipwrecked near Lisbon, Candide is nearly killed in an earthquake and Pangloss is hung by the Inquisition. Voltaire writes: "Candide, terrified, speechless, bleeding, palpitating, said to himself, 'If this is the best of all possible worlds, what can the rest be?'" (Candide, p. 128, in The Best Known Works of Voltaire.).
The Bible is not glib about evil and suffering. Just the opposite is true. The Bible in fact is brutally honest about pain, misfortune and the challenge it presents to faith. Numerous psalms deal with this theme, the drama of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Prophet Habakkuk, Jesus addresses it, Paul does in a number of contexts and the entire First Epistle of Peter as well as Revelation in many ways wrestle with this theme.
The answer the Bible gives is not always as clear cut as we would like it to be. For example the Bible never explains the "origin" of evil as we would hope it would. Instead it seeks to provide ways for us to express and vent within the confines of faith and it seeks to show that Yahweh is worthy of our trust ... even in the darkness.
Psalm 88 is one of those psalms that deal with the terrifying idea of the "absence of God" in our lives -- moments when he simply does not seem to be around or care. It is a lament -- a wailing (others include Pss. 3, 13, etc).
Psalm 88, however, is unique not only in the Psalms but in the Bible. All the other lament psalms move from complaint through supplication to expressions of trust and praise (cf. Ps. 130). Psalm 88 does not do this, in fact there is not a single expression of hope -- not a glimmer! The only indication of hope is the fact the psalmist is praying!
Psalm 88 is sometimes called "the granddaddy of all laments!" The reputation fits. The psalm is divided up into three sections: 88.1-7; 88.8-12 and 88.13-18. Each section ends with an image of darkness (mahsak, vv.6,18; hosek, v.12).
The psalmist LIVES in darkness. The Darkness is brought on by the apparent absence of God. Let's read it together:
"O LORD, God of my salvation, when at night, I cry in your presence,let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help, like those forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your land.
You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. [Selah] You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call on you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the Shades rise up to praise you?[Selah] Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
But I, O LORD, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. O LORD, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me? Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer terrors; I am desperate.
Your wrath has swept over me; your dread assaults destroy me. They surround me like a flood all day long; from all sides they close in on me. You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me; my companions are in darkness." (Psalm 88, NRSV)
We get some insight into the mood of this psalm from its heading where we read "mahalath le annoth" which literally means "sickness to afflict." Heman the Ezrahite, who is said to be the author, knew about the suffering of affliction.
We get a further sense of the despair contained in this lament when we notice carefully the vocabulary used. There are three words in Hebrew for "cry" or "call" and Psalm 88 use all three (vv. 1, 2, 13), as if to indicate Heman has exhausted every possible approach to get the Lord's attention.
The urgency of his plight is seen in the range of words he uses associated with death. Look at them: "Sheol" ('grave" NIV, v.3), "Pit" (vv. 4, 6), "dead/death" (vv. 5, 10, 15), "grave" (vv. 5, 11), "darkness/dark" (vv. 5, 12, 18), "deep" (v. 6), "Shades" ('the dead" NIV, v.10), "Abaddon" ('Destruction, NIV, v.11), "land of forgetfulness" ('land of oblivion" NIV, v.12). All of these words help us see the depth of misery and agony Heman is experiencing.
This agony is not some fleeting brush with depression. Notice the text gives us three chronological references. The psalmist cries out "at night" (v.1), he calls out "every day" (v.9) and his cries arise "in the morning" (v.13, Each reference with with a different word for "cry."). Every possible approach, at every possible moment, has been tried and the result is only "darkness!" It is all darkness, which is literally the final word of the psalm.
Why is God absent? Why does not God hear? Why does God not rescue? These are questions we have all asked at one time or another. We ask them after attacks on the WTC? We ask them when our child is suddenly given a terrible disease? We ask that when the drunk driver walks away without a scratch and his victim is left paralyzed? We ask them when we ourselves feel abandoned by God.
Heman knows how we feel! I for one am glad the Lord has given us the psalm to help us ask and wrestle with these questions in faith.
Instead of rescue Heman says, "your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me, with all your waves" (v.7). Again he laments "Your wrath has swept over me; your dread assaults destroy me" (v.16). What vivid imagery and it doesn't end here either. God seems to be the problem for Heman. He says "YOU have caused my companions to shun me" (v.8a) and again in v.18 "YOU have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend" (NIV).
Even life's worst has to do with God, therefore Heman calls to God "out of the depths" of darkness and loneliness. It is a very realistic and haunting picture of one of God's children suffering in this world of woe.
Many people have been troubled down through the years by Psalm 88. It is not the rosy picture they hope for. Many are not accustomed to hearing such honest and agonizing prayers "in church." We usually eskew such grittyness. It is this lack of honestly with ourselves and with God that usually creates the problems in our faith to begin with.
One observer noted, "Psalm 88 is an embarrassment to conventional faith." This is so because conventional faith is usually cold and lifeless and not connected to the realities of the world. Platitudes are the rule. This same observer then makes this comment, "Psalm 88 makes sense only in the light of Golgotha . . . Psalm 88 shows us what the cross is about: faithfulness in scenes of complete abandonment." He is correct. Such suffering, such darkness of the soul, such abandonment can makes sense in the shadow of the Crucified One.
I want to make this as concrete as I possibly can. How does Psalm 88 relate to such scenes of abandonment as Auschwitz, a horror my mind has difficulty grasping! Or 9-11?
Elie Wiesel, one of my favorite authors, describes the depravity that confronted him that night he arrived at the Death Camp at the tender age of 15:
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my lifeinto one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forgetthat smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of children, whose bodies I saw turnedinto wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. NEVER SHALL I FORGET THOSE FLAMES WHICH CONSUMED MY FAITH. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silencewhich deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget thosemoments WHICH MURDERED MY GOD AND MY SOUL and turned my dreams intodust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." (Night, p. 32).
Wiesel's pit was, like Heman's, full of Darkness. He uses the image of night powerfully all through his book to capture the absence of God and the absence of civility. It is gripping and moving. Where was God? In the face of such outrage? Why must there be a "Dark Night of the Soul? Why?
Later in his book, Wiesel describes the hanging of a young boy who had the "face of a sad little angel." Even the hardened SS was hesitant to hang the boy in front of several thousand folks. The officer in charge refused to give the order, so three other SS troops replaced him for the execution. Two others were to be hanged and they were screaming -- but the little boy remained silent.
"Where is God? Where is He?" Eli heard someone whisper. The prisoners were forced to walk by and look at the boy in the face. Wiesel says, "But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the boy was still alive . . ." For over half an hour they had to watch the little boy struggle for life. Then Eli heard the same voice ask, "Where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him, 'Where is He? Here he is -- He is hanging on this gallows . . ." (Night, pp. 75ff).
Wiesel lost his faith in God in the Darkness of his Pit. For him God literally hung to death in that boy -- never to be resurrected!
It is ironic that Wiesel cites Psalm 88 in the course of his book, Night. Corrie ten Boom, Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Maximilian Kolbe and thousands of others did not loose faith in God in the Night of the camps. Instead that is where they found him! Psalm 88 was instrumental in being found by God. God had already provided them a language in which to lament. The very image Wiesel evokes so powerfully contains the answer to his question and the psalmist's: Where was God?
In a way God did hang beside that little boy. God did not exempt himself from human suffering. He too hung on the gallows. At Golgotha, in the Night, at the Place of the Skull -- and honestly that ALONE keeps me believing in the God of love! Brueggemann is right. Psalm 88 only makes sense in the light -- or perhaps better -- the Darkness of the Cross. Such Darkness can only make sense by looking at the Passion of Jesus.
Here, at the cross, we learn the true depth of God's own suffering with us. IT SHOWS FAITHFULNESS IN THE FACE OF ABANDONMENT. The psalmist has not, unlike Wiesel, lost his faith and that is why he continues to call on God.
And Ps. 88 is a scandal to conventional faith only because conventional faith fails to deal with Golgotha. No, Psalm 88 is not a prediction of Christ's sufferings but it serves to articulate for us the experience Jesus would live out to an even greater degree than the psalmist could imagine. Facing the Cross, Jesus soul was "full of troubles" (cf. Mk. 14.33-34). He was shunned and even betrayed by his closest companions (Mk. 14.50). His only companion was Darkness (Mk 15.33). And like the psalmist, Jesus was faithful too. In the midst of the apparent abandonment of God, Heman cries, "My God, my God" and Jesus in the face of real abandonment cries "My God, My God" (Mk 15.34).
Psalm 88 shows that God does not, in the comfortable surroundings of heaven, turn a deaf ear to the sounds of suffering on this fallen planet. Instead God has JOINED us, choosing to live among an oppressed people -- Wiesel's own race -- in circumstances of poverty and great affliction. He too was an innocent victim of cruel and senseless torture. At that black moment when the Night was the Darkest the Son of God cried out, much like the psalmist and the believers in those camps, "My God, My God why have you FORSAKEN me?"
The Christian message encompasses the full range of anger and despair and darkness so eloquently expressed in a book like NIGHT. It offers complete identification with the suffering in the world. But it goes a step forward, it offers hope. That step is called Resurrection. That is the moment of victory when the last enemy, death -- the Night-- itself has been defeated.
A seeming tragedy, Jesus' crucifixion, made possible the ultimate healing of the world. The Dark Night of the Soul shall be vanquished.
As Heman suffered in Ps. 88, so God's son suffered life's worst. That is what the Cross is about. It says God loves us THAT much, to suffer like THAT! And there is nothing conventional about that kind of love. Sheer grace is always scandalous.
Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was taken hostage in Lebanon in the mid-1980's. When he was released some one asked him how he survived and what advice he had for others in similar circumstances. He said, "I would suggest memorizing Psalm Eighty-Eight. That grand old Hebrew woe seemed more cathartic than anything." It is cathartic!
To cry out in the Darkness is to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Christ of the Cross and with thousands of saints long since gone. It is indeed an affirmation of the hope that lies in resurrection. Sometimes we have to go through the Dark Night before we get to the Dawn! But we never travel alone.
For a Friend.
Bobby Valentine
20 comments:
- cwinwc said...
First, powerful post Bobby. I am convinced that one of the most powerful schemes Satan possesses in his arsenal is the instrument of isolation. Even secular psychology acknowledges the need to let folks who are fighting different addictions, diseases, and mental ailments know that they are not alone.
Certainly when we cry out in the darkness we stand in good company throughout the ages. As for those in the Body of Christ we know we're never far from the indwelling Holy Spirit. - 7:34 PM
- Stoogelover said...
Excellent. And powerful.
- Paula Harrington said...
Thanks for this post, Bobby. I couldn't stop reading.
- Bobby said...
Bobby, If you get a chance, will you remind me of your e-mail address (I'm at firstname.lastname@example.com)? There's an e-mail I want to send you.
Bobby - 6:12 AM
- Missionary's Missionary said...
I don't know who I would be today had I not had a dark night of the soul. I wouldn't be better off spiritually. Thank you for the post. Love's prayers...Dottie
You are a gifted writer, Bobby, but more than that you have once again shown yourself to be one who knows the Father. Your thoughts on suffering have helped me. This topic has long been of great interest to me, as it is to most Christians. It is so easy, so common, for us to tell people that God is with them when they are hurting and leave it at that. What we've said is true, but we need--as you did--to make that message more real, just as our crucified and risen Savior is very real. Thank you.
- Velcro said...
Powerful Sermon, Bobby.
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- Tony Arnold said...
"Do not be deceived. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer understanding, but still desiring to do our enemy's will, looks around upon a universe from which every trace of God seems to have vanished, asks why he has been forsaken, yet still obeys God."
-- Sr. devil Screwtape to subordinate Wormwood. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.
Tony - 10:00 AM
Wow! This is a topic that has been on my mind for weeks. Someone once told me God's Favor ain't Fair. We tend to think of fairness in terms of balanced, impartial,equal,
missing the mark. My grandmother use to say,"Isn't He Just Wonderful", as she suffered so many things. The early death of her oldest son, the suicide of her youngest, the rejection from her church, and the loss of the ability to walk. With tears in her eyes she would sit there for hours reading the Psalms.
Isn't God Just,accurate, hitting the mark, in regards to both righteousness and evil. How many of the saints have suffered since the beginning. Yet, whether it be Joseph or Job it is always correct in terms of God's purpose for our lives. Naturally we don't want to suffer or see the horror of this fallen world. Yet, when I look to the face of Jesus, I can't help thinking He knows to well what it feels like to be seperated from God's love and walk in darkness. Like only a Just God could. When Jesus comes back and seperates His sheep He will know full well the reality of the sentence He gives because He has been there.
It makes me wonder if God's love and value for us could have possibly increased or grown as He went through this experience. It also makes me very thankful that I didn't suffer what other's have. I wonder if my faith would stand the testing of such brutality and pain. I will have to share your post with my small group they have been asking these questions for weeks.
Thanks Bobby - 10:25 AM
- Dee O'Neil Andrews said...
I, too, couldn't stop reading this, Bobby, even though it was very painful just to read. Powerful. So grim, but so true.
Thank you, Bobby. For being the person you are who could write such a sermon, such a man who had the strength and integrity to present such a sermon and who has the compassion of a friend who can share such a sermon with those of us who come by. I've been in that dark place before in my life and I understand it. I never want to be there again and hope I never will, but if that should happen, I'll have resources such as this to remember to help me through the darkness.
Thanks Bobby. - 1:33 PM
- John Roberts said...
I'm not sure which "friend" you posted this for, but it probably hits a lot of us somewhere close to where we live. The psalms of lament are such a powerful reminder that God isn't just there in the successes, but in the defeats and tragedies. Thanks for sharing this great sermon.
- Mike Exum said...
Great stuff.
I now know of two sermons ever preached on Psalm 88. Personally, I think it should be preached for a month of Sundays. This Psalm takes you deep. Deep is the only way to deal with it. It is my favorite (except once in a while when I get to reading 130, which you also mentioned.) By the way, 88 is feature in Sophie's Choice; look into it. The opening lines of Psalm 130 were found scrawled on the walls of a gas chamber at Dachau when was liberated by the Allies.
I think you are absolutely right to let the psalm paint its bleak picture - tell its dark tale. And I think if you do not sit with it there, you are not dealing with it (or letting it deal with you). If you are finding glib answers to the questions it raises, you are obviously not doing it justice in your study. I cannot over state this. And I commend you for handling it just that way.
However, I have found hope in Psalm 88. But it is hope much like I find in the St. Mark's Gospel. It is only found in the second reading –NOT the first. You see, I take Mark to be finished at 16:8. I know the compelling arguments against this, but I have chosen to chop the last 12 verses out of my Bible. I am not sure at all that Mark stopped at v. 8, but I feel very confident that 9 – 12 are not his. And I have searched long and hard for rhyme and reason in his stopping at v. 8, and I think I have found it. (Hey, it's a theory!) And so, whether Mark intended it or not, I believe that since God inspired it, I am willing to stop there where he breaks off.
And I take a cue from reader/response critics (a dangerous thing, I know), and view Mark's Gospel as a revolutionary rag designed to recruit sympathetic interests by causing them to anxiously read it again in an effort to make sense of it with the women fleeing the tomb and telling no one. I think this puts the onus on the reader to take up the cause. I think the literary work is designed, probably by God rather than St. Mark, actually to sweep the reader into the narrative literally.
In a similar way, I think we can read Psalm 88 a second time and find hope. As I said, and I would agree fully with your assessment, and would question you if you went another direction, if you had not embraced the raw hopelessness of it. The questions, such as "Do you work wonders for the dead?" or "Do the shades rise up to praise you?", have the sting of a Job-like rebuke in them from the psalmist toward God. I mean, when your life gets so raw that you are willing to talk to God in that tone of voice, you are in some tough spot! But, this side of the Resurrection, those same questions, despite the psalmists deep angst the night they were written, find their profound "YES!" in Jesus (as Paul would say). Thus the psalmist's narrative is swept up in Jesus' story.
I am mindful that the psalmist died, his voice having gone limp in the pale darkness, centuries before Jesus brought God's answer. And, I believe that as Christians this side of the Cross, we need to lay hold of that despairing voice and deal with it even yet. But I am also mindful that God has not left it there. Of course, as far as the psalmist is concerned, He has, but as far as we are, He has not. And through that avenue, I find Psalm 88 to be as incredibly hopeful as it is despairing.
Many blessings… - 7:24 PM
- Darin L. Hamm said...
Thanks for allowing us to look over their shoulder.
Glad to find your blog!
God bless
Maria in the UK
www.inhishands.co.uk - 10:12 AM
- Mike Exum said...
I finished KC about a week before Thanksgiving. It is a great book! I recommend it to all.
I was especially jazzed by the social justice and unity aspects of the book. But then I am the choir on those points. If I recall correctly, chapter 6 was a high point for me. It alone was worth the price of the book. There were others too.
I am recommending it to customers who seem amenable at the bookstore. (It moves slow amid the Sunset crowd.) But our preaching minister at Vandelia read it and recommended it to me. I suppose I should make a point to spread the word there.
Thanks for writing it. I read Lee Camp's book last year. His is another good one. I just finished NT Wright's new one on Evil today. I have the Fretheim book you recommended a few posts back. Not into it yet. You are right, it is a big one. Will take some discipline to read it. But I am very curious about it. Relational theology of Creation... sounds good to me. Perhaps you could offer a book report to stirr things up?
I am also looking again into Leonard Allen a bit. I have read more CoC writers this year than ever before. It seems we are finally getting some good ones. I definitely count you among the select few in that crowd.
Many blessings... - 7:53 PM
What a wonderful (is that the right word to use for a lament?) lesson on the reality of life. Probably the first I have heard that was not based in Job. The first that I will remember, anyway.
Thank you! - 11:03 PM
- Falantedios said...
NT Wright comments on Ps. 88 in "Evil and the Justice of God." He mentions that if there is a note of hope in the whole entire psalm, it is that Heman is still blaming everything on God. No matter what, he has not lost his faith that God is in control of all things.
"The psalmist will not suggest that what is happening to him is other than the strange and terrifying work of YHWH himself. He can't understand it; he knows it isn't what ought to be happening; but he holds on, almost one might think to the point of blasphemy, to the belief that YHWH remains sovereign."
Thank you, Bobby. Again you've enriched my soul.
in HIS love,
Nick - 1:39 AM
- Shezza said...
from the dark night of the soul....i say thanks
- hjw said...
Thank you so much for this. God has lead me to it now when I am in the midst of my own dark night - a severe depression. I know he is there, supporting and loving me, but he feels so very far away and I feel so alone. The knowledge that he loves me is all that keeps me together most of the time.


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The event began with warmup on Friday evening, included a feast of traditional Ojibwe foods, and concluded with retreat on Sunday evening. The gymnasium floor was encircled with many drum groups. Honor was paid during the weekend to American service personnel in the Middle East The top photo: Terry White, Boy River, Bug School Brave. Not pictured were Jr. Brave, Brian Pelly; Princess, Rose Cloud and Jr. Princess, Amy Fairbanks. The lower photo was taken Saturday. Photos by Mark Boswell. but asked them to make that determination by resolution. He offered to release the tribe from his contract if they prefer. The committee is made up of the chairmen and secretary-treasurers of the bands. Generally speaking, professional ethics disallow situations where a lawyer represents both his or her own commercial interests and a client's related interests, said William Wernz, Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board in St. Paul. Clients may waive those concerns after the attorney fully informs them of potential problems, Wernz said. Editor's note: For some unknown reason, the request was either not put on the agenda for the February meeting in St. Paul or was stricken from the agenda. According to federal regulations. all attorney contracts require the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and require some responsibility for review by the BIA. However, it is unclear what responsibility the BIA has in this situa don. [Reprinted with permission from the Duluth News Tribune, Jan 30, 1991.] ~X^«z»i<^s<=; of t:l^e^ st f-nixTLaln*^ Fifty Cents Founded In 1988 Volume 3 Issue 14 February 6,1991 | Copyright, the Ojibwe News, 1991 A Bi-Monthly Publication Bemidji, Minnesota 56601 Red Lake Fire Department undergoing change Red Lake Volunteer firemen include (1st row) left to right: Loren Stillday, Ron Cloud, Jr., James Cloud, Jr., and Keith Stately; (2nd row) Roman "Ducker" Stately, Bruce Stillday, Dave Dickenson, Ron Sigana, Leo Desjarlait, and Anthony Infante. Also included but not pictured are: Don May, Herman Downwind, James Whitefeather, Don Graves, Norman Spears, and Charlie Smith. Photo by Mark Boswell. By Mark Boswell Staff Writer There are photos of water damaged ceiling tiles and overused equipment on the wall to attest to the big changes going on at the Redlake Fire Hall. A new heating system, firemen's quarters, and a new coat of paint have been added to the facility where a much needed face lift has been on-going for months. Since last September, Red Lake Reservation volunteer firefighters and workers have been renovating the facility in order to improve the Department's firefighting abilities to make the community safer. Roman "Ducker" Stately, who has been the Fire Department Administrator for about 4 months, is partly responsible for these changes. In that time, there have been major improvements in the Fire Department's facility in Redlake and in how firemen are trained for the reservation's fire protection services. With four large communities, Redby, Ponemah, Redlake, and Little Rock, an estimated 1,100 homes, the Red Lake Fire Department has a tough beat. It has to be ready to respond to a wide variety of situations. "We usually deal with 8 to 10 fires a month," said Stately, "mostly house and car fires, but we also do backup for the local Forestry Department in the case of large brush fires." Stately, who has been the Red Lake District Representative for 13 years, said that he is expecting further funding from the John Baumgartner Insurance Placement Service in Bemidji, where $10,375 is being contracted for, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Minnesota Safe Kids state program, where funding for 2 positions in the department and training funds are being sought. A large part of the funding has been requested from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A contract was entered by the Red Lake Tribal Council for $46,800. The contract, which would pay for maintenance of fire department vehicles and buildings, is an unusual request for the BIA. "We're hopeful that this will come through," said Stately, "the BIA has never funded a tribal fire department before. They said they had never heard of it." Stately said that the BIA has been supportive of the renovation, and he's optimistic about future funding. The Red Lake Tribal Council has distributed approximately $36,000 for remodeling the Redlake and Ponemah firehalls. The changes in the Redlake Hall are obvious: a new heating system, better equipment including a "Jaws of Life" apparatus for use in car accidents, and the addition of sleeping quarters in preparation for full-time firefighters who can man the facility 24-hours a day. In addition to these changes there have been additional firefighting vehicles, bringing the total fleet to 5 trucks. The simple addition of much needed lockers and proper firefighting uniforms have added greatly to the operation. Stately said that weekly meetings are scheduled for the volunteer firemen, with training sessions taking place at these times. Training includes attendance at a firefighters seminar in Duluth, and a currently scheduled training series going on in Kelliher. A third seminar is expected to be held in Bemidji soon. The new fire chief has not yet been officially signed on, but current volunteer fireman Leo "Bubba" Desjarlait, has been chosen to fill the vacancy. The new assistant fire chief will be Keith Stately. Both firemen have been working on the volunteer force for 12 years and have logged hundreds of hours in the service of the community. Stately on fire protection Roman Stately grew up on the Red Lake Reservation and has lived there most of his life. He believes that there has been a misconception that the BIA is responsible for fire protection on Indian reservations but "this is not true," said Stately. "The BIA budgets a small amount of monies through their maintenance program for the fire protection of their properties and equipment, for both Redlake and Ponemah, it has averaged about $13,500. Redlake and Ponemah fire department buildings and equipment were in a poor state of repair due to this lack of funding." Stately believes that the foremost concern of the new Tribal Chairman, Gerald "Butch" Brun, and the tribal council, is fire protection for the Red Lake Reservation. To back this up. Stately explained that upon checking with insurance companies, Ponemah's average rate is 9, which means that they pay one of the highest premium rates set by fire insurance companies." "Insurance companies have informed the council that by having a manned fire department in Ponemah, along with proper equipment, fire insurance premiums could be cut in half." The current project, revamping the existing facilities and equipment, and getting the necessary funding to keep around-the-clock firefighters at the fire hall, could reduce Red Lake's high fire insurance premuims also according to Stately. Smoking kills — deaths top 400,000 in '88 Atlanta, Ga. (AP) - Even as more Americans are quitting smoking, more are dying from the habit as indulgences of the 1950s and '60s take an increasing toll, federal health officials said Thurday. The national Centers for Disease Control reported that 434,175 Americans died from smoking in 1988, up 11 percent from the 390,000 deaths attributed to smoking in a 1985 study. Those numbers reflect a steady, deadly trend, CDC researchers said. In 1965, there were 188,000 smoking deaths. "The problem is, we are now paying for what happened 20, 30 years ago, when large numbers of people smoked in large amounts," said Dr. William Roper, director of CDC. "Even though the percentage of Americans now smoking is lower, the burden of the past practice is coming clear." That burden includes 111,985 annual deaths from lung cancer, the leading cause of smoking-related deaths, Roper said. That is up from 106,000 in 1985 and 38,100 in 1965. "It takes 10, 20 years for the cancer caused by smoking to result," he said. Smoking also resulted in 30,851 other cancer deaths, such as mouth cancers and pancreatic cancer, in 1988; 200,802 deaths from a range of cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and arterial disease; 82,857 deaths from respirator}- diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema, among other causes. In addition, there were 2,552 deaths of infants attributed to the mother's smoking and 1303 burn deaths in fires caused by smoking. The CDC also said 3,825 Americans died from lung cancer caused by others' smoking, or passive smoke. But the CDC's statistical formulas do not yet include passive smoking deaths from heart diseases, which a recent study estimated at 37,000 a year. CDC researchers estimate that 29 percent of Americans smoke, statistically equal to the 30 percent in 1985, but down 40 percent from 1964, the year of the landmark surgeon general's warning against smoking. CDC surveys show that women are slower to give up the habit than men and that Americans younger than 44 smoke more than older people. The CDC said the 1988 death rate attributable to smoking was 12 percent higher for minorities than for whites. He said that although the deaths continue to climb, heavy smokers can still improve thei, chances if they kick the habit. "It's never too late to quit," he said. "People at whatever age —25 or 85 —will benefit themselves from stopping smoking." i i
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Title | The Ojibwe News (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1991-02-06 |
Edition | Volume 3, Number 14 |
Date of Creation | 1991-02-06 |
Publishing Agency | William J. Lawrence (Bemidji, Minnesota) |
Language | English |
Minnesota Reflections Topic | American Indians |
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Minnesota County | Beltrami |
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Other Facts: He is interested in environmental issues, alternative energy and hybrid vehicles. Some buses in Monaco run on rapeseed oil.
An avid athlete, he has competed in five Winter Olympics (1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002) in the sport of bobsledding but has not won any medals.
He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1985.
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A trial against the first of three people indicted in the aggravated murder of a man whose badly burned body was found in a burned-out truck, is set to begin on Sept. 10. That is when Raymond J. Linkous, 35, of Wheelersburg is set to go on trial in the death of Felipe Lopez, 24, of Friendship.
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At 71, Plover woman holds plank position for a record 36 minutes, 58 seconds
In a record-setting effort on Wednesday, Betty Sweeney exemplified the transformative effects of exercise and the power of persistence.
The 71-year-old from Plover once weighed a debilitating 235 pounds, and followed a path of physical recovery that led to a stunning feat of strength. She held the plank position, balanced on her toes and forearms, for 36 minutes, 58 seconds during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the pose in the Anytime Fitness Club in Stevens Point.
The previous mark was 33 minutes, 40 seconds, set by an Australian man. Sweeney and her witnesses will submit the record-breaking details to Guinness for certification.
Those who incorporate the plank position in their regular workout routine will find Sweeney's ab-busting endurance remarkable. For most, holding the plank for two minutes is torturous.
"I'm very happy and excited," Sweeney told the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. "I was just very calm about it. I put everybody else on hold and just concentrated on Dave (Candra, her trainer at Anytime Fitness in Stevens Point) and what I was doing. The way I felt at 20 minutes, I knew I was going to do it."
The Tribune story details Sweeney's resurgence from obesity that severely damaged her health. She lost roughly 110 pounds over two years.
"When I started (working out with Dave), I just wanted to be able to do one pull-up," she said. "What we've done so far has just blown me away. If you'd have told me two years ago that today I'd have broken this record, I'd have wondered what you were on."
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The linked story mentioned that she "has been able to stop taking almost 11 medications." All those meds because of obesity. What a reason to get moving!
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The jury for Balkan Documentary Competition was comprised of Marta Andreu, Spain (Coordinator DocMontevideo), Srdjan Keċa, Serbia (filmmaker, Letter to Dad, Mirage) and Cinta Peleja, Portugal (Festival director DocLisboa).
[from DokuFest's press release]: Festival's flagship award for Best Balkan Documentary went to the film Sofia's Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev. A story of one of only 12 ambulances serving Bulgarian city of Sofia was so captivating and here's what jury noted about it: "For being an amazing film in its sharp yet peaceful gaze at the characters it portrays with intimacy, that powerfully succeeds to represent the reality that surrounds them. The filmmaker uses with great ability the cinema's potential to articulate what is in the frame with what is not shown, to express the essence of human being in relation to the world and its meaning".
The Same jury also awarded Croatian filmmaker Dana Budisavljevic with Best Balkan Newcomer award for her film Family Meals. The award is handed on behalf of the Balkan Documentary Center and is sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Bulgaria. Below is what jury noted about the film: "The jury considers that the director's cinematographic approach reflects a way of looking at reality that promises a personal voice, which should be encouraged".
Sofia's Last Ambulance
Poslednata lineika na Sofia , Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, 75 min, Beta SP, Digi Beta, DVD, Personal View, Portrait, Social Issues, Society
In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve a burgeoning population of several million, 47-year old Krassi Yordanov is our unlikely hero: chain-smoking and saving lives in a non-stop 48-hour shift. Krassi is the emergency doctor on one of Sofia's last ambulances and today is the worst day of his life. This is a film about the regular working day of Dr. Krassi, nurse Mila and driver Plamen, a team working on an ambulance in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Struggling against an avalanche of absurdities in a crumbling medical system and scarcely earning enough to make a living, these three are simply trying to do what they do best – save lives.
Family Meals
Nije ti život pjesma Havaja , Croatia, 2012, 49 min, Digi Beta, HD, Creative, Personal View, Society
Do you remember when was the last time you talked to your parents? What did you talk about? Did you go a step beyond weather forecast and daily politics? Can a conversation about buried family secrets help you eat without cramps in your stomach? Can a failed birthday cake help you embrace the past? A birthday celebration brings together an ordinary four member family five years after their last gathering. They start questioning what made them turn away from each other. Through the ritual of family meals, the film unveils how important it is to feel accepted by our loved ones.


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'Snow plow coming at us. Expect whiteout conditions when you meet it!'
The squawk of the two-way radio is what we listened to for five days as we drove in convoy from Edmonton to Anchorage, Alaska. But this was no land-of-the-midnight-sun summer joyride. It's January. It's bone-chilling cold. It's dark most of the time.
The Alaska Highway, 2,237 kilometres of road that stretches from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks, Alaska, is the backbone of the motoring trek from Edmonton to Anchorage that a gaggle of automotive journalists, event coordinators and Mercedes-Benz executives were up to last week.
Our rides were not 4MATIC S-class sedans or all-wheel-drive GLK SUVs. No sir, this unlikely rolling convoy consisted of nine rear-wheel drive Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans.
There were a number of configurations including 12-seat people movers, short wheelbase cargo versions and long wheelbase workers like the one I drove with a cargo area of 600 cubic feet that dwarfs the competition. A floor-to-ceiling bulkhead between the cabin and the cargo area combined with the Sprinter's car-like handling characteristics made it easy to forget I was driving something that big.
Like all Sprinters, mine was powered by a surprisingly quiet, clean-burn 188-horsepower 3.0-litre V6 diesel with best-in-class fuel consumption (9.4 L/100 km highway and 13.8L/100 km city) coupled to a smooth-shifting five-speed automatic transmission.
Mercedes-Benz has been building trucks and vans for more than 100 years and it didn't take long to realize this heritage is built into the core of the Sprinter in terms of functionality, efficiency and comfort.
Over the years, people have asked me what I'd recommend as a true driving adventure and the Alaska Highway is always one of my top recommendations. There's no cellphone service on most of the route, long barren stretches through spectacular pristine wilderness, outposts staffed by characters that look like central casting put them there for a Hollywood movie and roads that challenge a driver's stamina and wit.
Throw in doing the drive in January when daylight is short, temperatures drop to outrageous lows and traffic lights give way to Northern Lights. Most of the route is snow-packed or glare ice, but unlike some of my other road trip adventures, there is no worry about being ambushed by pesky bandits, being stopped and interrogated by corrupt police or getting stuck at a frontier where you can't decide if the lingering delay calls for diplomacy or a bribe.
Driving to Alaska in January is not an ideal time to meet tourists or play a game spotting RVs because there are none of either. Once we got into the heart of the drive, the majority of what little traffic we encountered were pickup trucks, snowplows and lumbering eighteen-wheelers headed south to pick up another load of fuel, food, furniture or whatever needs to get to the Yukon or Alaska by road.
The organizers at Mercedes-Benz decided it best to stay in convoy with lead and chase vehicles. Of course, this was a different scenario than I'm used to, but after a few hundred kilometres, I got into the groove of listening to instructions coming through the two-way radios while fixating on the decals on the back of the Sprinter in front of me that read 'Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Arctic Drive'. No sweat.
"Can the third van back off a little bit? Rear fog lamps on please." More chatter on the radio.
I had plenty of time to think about the history of the Alaska Highway that was built by the U.S. army in 1942, connecting a series of airstrips that were used by pilots ferrying more than 8,000 aircraft to Russia during the early stages of Second World War. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, there was concern that an invasion of Alaska was a probable next step, so an army of 10,000 U.S. military engineers and troops completed the massive project in just nine months.
By the end of Day 2 of the Sprinter Arctic Drive, road conditions had deteriorated and we drove for hours on glare ice at highway speeds. No quick movements, easy on the brakes, slow down when meeting those eighteen-wheelers kicking up a blizzard of white powder.
Over the next two days, the Sprinter's Adaptive ESP (electronic stability program) helped keep us on the straight and narrow and, except for a flat tire, the convoy blasted up the Alaska Highway.
Day 5 and my GPS indicated the end of our journey was only 200 kilometres away. The scenery was mind-boggling, it was -37 C and the road was a sheet of ice but we were all old hands at it by then, cruising at 100 km/h or more.
"Heads up, there's a herd of caribou on the road," squawked the two-way radio.
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The humble vanilla cake is usually very well liked in an average Indian household especially if it is eggless and home-made. The oven which is a regular fixture in almost every kitchen in the US is usually not that common in the Indian middle class kitchen. Although this is changing rapidly, for the most part, cakes there are still made in a small portable electric oven. If you've ever seen or tried baking in one of these, you'd know that it is not the easiest of things to do.
For these reasons, the simple eggless vanilla cake was a big favorite in our family as well. This recipe is so popular in my family tree that every member that can cook has a written copy of it and has tried their luck at baking it atleast once. All the credit goes to my aunt who joined a baking class and where she got this recipe and then the rest is history. Since then I have of course baked several different types of cakes but this one still holds a special place in my heart. I have made some minor modifications like using chocolate cips instead of cocoa powder but the recipe is essentially the same. It is very easy to make, calls for a very few ingredients and tastes awesome.
All purpose flour ...................... 11/2 cup
Sweetened condensed milk ......... 1 cup (I use fat free)
Unsalted butter ........................ 6 tbsp at room temperature
Baking powder ........................ 1 tsp
Baking soda ............................ 1 tsp
Salt ..................................... 1/4 tsp
Vanilla extract ......................... 1 1/2 tsp
Cold milk ............................... 1/2 cup
Dark choco chips ...................... 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar for dusting
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2. In a medium size bowl sift together the flour with baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3. In another bowl add the condensed milk, vanilla, milk, butter and beat for a minute to combine everything.
4. Add the dry mixture in the wet and mix. Fold in the chocolate chips and pour in a greased 8" round cake pan and bake for 20-22 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
5. Let it cool completely to room temperature. Turn it upside down on a plate and dust the top with powdered sugar. Slice and serve. Enjoy!


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Northeast Organic Farming Association organic conference planned for January in Spa City
SARATOGA SPRINGS — More than 1,300 participants are expected at the Northeast Organic Farming Association's annual winter conference from Jan. 25 to Jan. 27 at the Saratoga Springs Hilton and City Center.
The public, including consumers interested in farming and food issues, gardeners, farmers, policy-makers, restaurant owners and social service agency officials, is invited to attend.
Registration packages are available for partial days as well as the entire event. Early-bird discounts are available through Tuesday, Dec. 11.
"The 2013 winter conference will focus on the resilience demonstrated and needed by the state's organic farmers in the face of economic and environmental upheaval," NOFA-NY Executive Director Kate Mendenhall said. "From recovering from the crop devastation experienced from recent hurricanes and droughts, to the challenges of continuing to farm when land can easily be sold to developers or for natural gas, this conference will focus on how our organic farmers demonstrate resilience every day."
Keynote speakers are Shinji Hashimoto, leader of the Japanese "Teiki" (community-supported agriculture) and an organic farmer since 1989; and 2013 Farmer of the Year Scott Chaskey of Long Island, who has long demonstrated resilience despite a changing agricultural landscape, development pressure and weather changes.
The conference also will have more than 80 technical workshops on organic and sustainable agriculture topics such as organic fruit, vegetables, grain, livestock, dairy, food processing, urban farming, agricultural policy, food justice, gardening and homesteading.
Numerous display activities are planned, including the following:
• "Farm Hack" — A farm innovation exhibition display of tools developed by farmers for resilient organic, sustainable agriculture.
• Tasting of New York wheat varieties to help with the movement to scale up the production of grains in the Northeast.
• A trade show with more than 65 growers and companies serving consumers and the organic farming community. Continued...
• A store featuring merchandise and a wide range of books on farming, gardening and organic, local food.
• Film screenings on four farming-related documentaries: "Growing Farmers," "My Father's Garden," "The Making of an Organic Farmer" and "Uncanny Terrain." The latter chronicles the plight of Japanese organic farming within the radiation zone of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. However, the film is still in production, so a sneak preview will be shown.
• Children's conference for children (ages 6 to 13) of adults in attendance. Activities include playing with worms and building worm bins to take home; embroidery for farm quilts; a hike in Skidmore College's North Woods; and planning a market garden.
Childcare is available for children ages 3 to 5.
Organic food will be available at all conference events. Farmers statewide and national organic food producers donate meat, vegetables, fruit, grain and dairy to the conference, enabling a full complement of organic menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Just outside the walls past Porta Fiorentina are the ruins of the 1st-century BC Roman theater, one of the best-preserved in Italy, with adjacent remains of the Roman terme (baths). You can enjoy an excellent bird's-eye view of the theater from Via Lungo le Mura.
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