<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What was once just a big blue marble, is now, in my mind, a World Collage\u2026a smattering of this and that from across the globe, that is, in every sense of the word, my community. I have chatted online with them, I have prayed with them, and I have even taken a walk down their street in Google\u00ae street view maps. Oh how the world has changed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,3],"tags":[40,18,34,7,15,39,37,38],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tlr","category-discussions","tag-community","tag-knowledge","tag-leadership","tag-growth","tag-wisdom","tag-world-citizens","tag-world-collage","tag-world-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}We may, if we are church goers, consider ourselves part of the community of believers, which is a broader world vision, but still a community in which we do not personally know those we \u201ccommune\u201d with.\u00a0 Over the past several months, I have experienced a much broader sense of community as I have ventured into internet ministry.<\/h4>\n
Just for kicks, I decided to search this term I had come up with, ‘World Collage<\/b>‘, and to my surprise I found artwork and even puzzles based on this phrase.\u00a0 Photographer Guy Shachar<\/a> has created a beautiful collage from pieces of photos from Israel, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, India, Austria, France, England, Mexico, United States and Canada.<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/h4>\nSince launching One Month of Wisdom, I have connected to a beautiful mosaic of precious people throughout the world. <\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/strong> What was once just a big blue marble, is now, in my mind, a World Collage<\/i>\u2026a smattering of this and that from across the globe, that is, in every sense of the word, my community.\u00a0 I have chatted online with them, I have prayed with them, and I have even taken a walk down their street in Google\u00ae street view maps.\u00a0 Oh how the world has changed!<\/span><\/h4>\n
With this change comes a change in our perspective of who we are.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
I am indeed a citizen of Florida, and a citizen of the US, but my World Collage vision has me now thinking of myself as a citizen of the world.\u00a0 Distant nations I have never seen are, indeed, my community.\u00a0 The internet has given us the power to communicate.\u00a0 There is a world wide social revolution going on that is changing not only how business is done (and where), but also how we relate to one another.<\/h3>\n
The world is getting smaller all the time, and we, as world citizens, have an opportunity to seize the power this affords us.\u00a0 I do not need to rely on the news to tell me what is going on in Pakistan.\u00a0 My Pakistani friends on Skype and facebook tell me about the victims of the recent flood and their needs.\u00a0 I have, at my fingertips, art, music, articles, and video, from people just like me all over the globe.\u00a0 With these new friendships comes the opportunity to better understand and appreciate other cultures and ways of life.<\/h3>\n
What I proclaimed as truth in a sixth grade art class project back in 1966<\/strong>,<\/h2>\n
not understanding how profound it was, nor that I would one day look back on it as a defining moment in my life, now is foremost on my mind.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\nThrough our personal relationships in this World Collage<\/u>, we have the power to bridge the gap between what is true, and what the so called elite of the world would like us to believe is true.\u00a0 \u00a0We can be instruments of peace that have a far reaching and profound effect on the future of this planet.\u00a0 I pray that we will learn to use this power wisely, and for the benefit of all mankind.<\/h4>\n
Blessings & Adventure<\/h4>\n