[Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer

[Jean Long]

Greetings wonderful colleagues --

This is Jean Long.  I work in the Archives.  Now, I don't know from quotes
about the future generations -- all I can relate to you is what I have seen
developing here in the Kempter Bldg. with the new staff who are running the
ICA.

They have attended courses like Elise and George Packard's on Imaginal
Presence (forgive the title - it is something like that).  They are working
with a lot of profound old war horses -- and it is transforming their
perspective on life.

They come to our staff meetings and talk about "used to have a job here -
and now they see that they have a mission in life to be here".  They are
learning to work as one team instead of little fiefdoms.

The bldg. manager and the finance person have decided to move onto the 7th
floor.  The way they described it to our resident's meeting is, "Working
with the ICA folks is the most extraordinary experience they have had - and
they want to know more and figure moving in to live amongst us is the way
to pursue that.

We have monthly Friday night meals where we do an opening context about the
role the meal has played in history - and in the ICA.  We do birthday
celebrations and a short conversataion at the end that lets us talk about
who we are as a community - leading into a secular absolution.  Even the
bldg. construction mgr. and his crew come to that!!!

So I don't know from quotes - but living with examples of care, compassion
and sacrifiice has done a lot to shape the next generation here in the
Kemper Bldg.

PS - About 6 of the new staff are paying the way to the Nepal Conference.
...and two parents are taking their teenagers to have this experience with
them.

Jean - moving to Kemper has made all the difference in my life - and
theirs.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, William Schlesinger <pvida3607 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Guess our eschatalogical hero got it wrong!  Should have put Pontius
> Pilate away!
>
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM, R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Calls to mind the phrase out of the Patton monologue, "Your job is not to
>> die for your country..."
>>
>> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the
>> world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."
>> -Martin Buber (adapted)
>>    *From:* William Schlesinger <pvida3607 at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:48 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer
>>
>> Of course, sometimes the coming generation needs to see people going down
>> fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat!  Or at least, taking
>> the hit of what seems like certain defeat, and disclosing that certain
>> defeat isn't all it's cracked up to be...
>>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Terry Bergdall <bergdall2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> "To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat
>> is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The
>> ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to
>> extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation
>> is to live."
>>
>> I believe this is from "After Ten Years" in Letters and Papers from
>> Prison. Terry
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net>wrote:
>>
>> What was that quote from Bonhoeffer a few days ago about lost causes, or
>> going down with the ship, something like that.  I was trying to look it up
>> and couldn't find it.
>>
>>   George Holcombe
>> 14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
>> Austin, TX 78728
>> Mobile 512/252-2756
>> geowanda at earthlink.net
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>> with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it
>> just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could
>> you hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope?    ~Joseph
>> W. Mathews
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