[Dialogue] Thank You for Birthday Greetings

[RICHARD HOWIE via Dialogue]

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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