[Dialogue] Thank You for Birthday Greetings
RICHARD HOWIE via Dialogue
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Mon Oct 31 07:41:08 PDT 2016
For all that has been, THANKS. For all that shall be, YES.
Dick and I had a grand, 2 day visit with the Lindblad family in
Cincinnati...All is well, all can be well, all manner of thing shall
be well.
Love, Grace & Peace to all,
Ellen Howie
On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Mary Kurian DSouza via Dialogue wrote:
> Nancy
> What a lovely and real letter.
> So much to be grateful for. Thank you for participating in the co-
> creation of our lives together.
> In gratitude,
> Mary
>
> On 28-Oct-2016, at 1:29 AM, Nancy Grow via Dialogue
> <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues of the ICA.; O:E EI, etc.
>>
>> Many thanks to all of you for greetings received and
>> treasured!! This has been quite a year - and more. Some
>> "important" doctor" a couple of years ago, decided he could return
>> my eye sight to its pristine state. For two years I suffered his
>> shots in the retina with all their accompaying "joys" of being
>> unable to read. This year I said "That's enough!" My eyes are
>> worse than they have ever been. And now, five months later, I am
>> able to read a little without the lines converging, etc.
>> Hallelujah! Then in July Bill went in for a difficult but no too
>> unusual operation: the removal of agrowth that had woven itself
>> into a corner of his colon. Four hours later, the doctor announces
>> it was successful and he could go home. But when he tried to get
>> out of bed he couldn't move his left leg. He spent six weeks in
>> hospital with attempts to "fix" it. He is much better now but
>> still not able to walk without a"walker" (Old term for it!) The
>> weather has been severe on all the kids, but all are OK at the
>> moment. SOOO
>> I am rejoicing in the memories many of you have sent of some
>> other rather dire days we knew on the West Side of Chicago and a
>> few other places we spread to since 1966. And tho' there have been
>> many things for us, for our kids and the Order that I wish had not
>> happened; I give thanks for the global outlook and concern that
>> have resulted. The seeds sewn continue to sprout in unexpected
>> but eye-opening ways here and around the world.(They make you
>> smile, don't they, the growing adea that education should be for
>> life in the future buillding on learnings from the past; that all
>> nations and all religions have a base of goodness much needed in
>> the world. I am reminded of many things, but will share just one.
>> When I was assigned to Korea as a missiionary in 1953. I had
>> been teaching a SS class in the Church of All Nations in Toronto.
>> My students were from many nations:Africe, S America, China,
>> Japan, Native Canadians, Europeans. When they heard I was assigned
>> to go to Korea, they wanted to give me a gift. One girl said,
>> "She'd better take a gun; Let's get her a gun!" But a child who
>> knew what missionaries are about said, " Missionaries don't carry
>> guns!! They take Bibles!" They got me one and tho' it is pretty
>> tattered, I read it every day. No, that's not true: I read "The
>> Message" every day.
>>
>> Thank you all for birthday greetings and memories. They are a
>> treasure indeed!
>> Grace and peace still abound,
>> Nan/Nancy Grow
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