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So a deep namaste and welcome my friends to another week of our sheltering in love talks

and reflections.

And this time together has become an ongoing inquiry about really taking refuge in love

during this time of global crisis.

And I thought I'd begin with a story that I read took place in Cape Town, South Africa,

leaders from two different gangs contacted a pastor that had been working with the gangs

and let the pastor know that they were really hungry, they were starving, their groups needed

food.

And he called them together, these two plus other gang leaders, and they were able to create

a truce.

And all the gang leaders were organized then to distribute food together to their extended

communities.

And you could see in the video these guys and they're bumping elbows and kind of, you

can see a kind of joyfulness, this novel camaraderie that they were feeling and when they were

interviewed, they admitted they never in a million years could have imagined that this would

be happening, but you could tell they were feeling good about themselves.

And the pastor basically said that he could now die a happy man.

And so in a way, if we're cynical about it or even if we think realistic, will these

guys return to their rivalry and violence afterwards?

Maybe possibly.

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