We are getting excited for the NACAR Conference "A Journey of Blessings" to be held June 1-3, 2012, in Chicago, IL, with Joyce Rupp as the keynote speaker. If you haven't had a chance to register, it is easy. First read the registration packet on our website and then register.
An Email was sent out in mid-January letting you know that NACAR's Annual Report can be seen on our website. If you haven't had a chance to read it, please take some time to do so. The content is worthwhile, and it even has pie charts. Cool!
Also posted on the website are the benefits of being a congregational or individual NACAR member. If you are unaware of them, follow the link. A new benefit for Congregational Members is Job Posting on the NACAR website. If you would like a Position posted, please contact us and we will post it for 30 days at no charge.
A new issue of The Associate is in the works. Articles are due today - February 1. If you have an article to submit, including upcoming events, send it to us.
The NACAR Board of Directors and Management Team
Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth;
By Seyh Galib (1757 - 1799)
English version by Bernard Lewis
Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth;
love is a shackle, my heart is its crazy captive.
Since becoming a sharer in the secret of your glance
my heart became a friend of the friend, a stranger to the stranger.
Making no difference between dry piety and endless carouse --
such is the libertine way of the masters of ecstasy.
The black soil of the reveler's world is full of abundance,
the sun of wisdom rises in the tavern jar.
He drinks the wine mingled with poison of the glance of those eyes;
I could be tipsy from the languor of those blue eyes.
Take care, do not neglect that sleeping dagger,
its tale is always the gossip of death.
