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Mon Jul 2 15:32:47 PDT 2012

I just finished a book "St. Francis of Assisi" by  G.K.Chesterton.
I don't know when it was written, as I got it on my kindle and  I can't 
retrieve the title page!

My main insight:  At Francis' time the church was  involved in Adoration of 
Christ.  Francis introduced Imitation of  Christ.

Karen Bueno

In a message dated 7/2/2012 2:07:24 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
cfhahn30 at gmail.com writes:

Hey  Rod,
Thank you for passing this wonderful piece along.  Reminds one of  the 
strength and power we experienced in the OE.
Charles

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Rod Rippel <_rodrippel at cox.net_ 
(mailto:rodrippel at cox.net) > wrote:

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To: _Rod Rippel_ (mailto:rodrippel at cox.net)  
Subject: Fw: Daily Meditation: Power and Powerlessness / Right  and Left -- 
July 1, 2012

you will like this, I think.  P

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Subject: Daily Meditation: Power and Powerlessness / Right and  Left -- 
July 1, 2012

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POWER  AND POWERLESSNESS /
RIGHT  AND LEFT 

Lenin is supposed to have said,  shortly before he died, that if he had to 
do his  Russian revolution over again, he would have  asked for ten 
Francises of Assisi rather than  more Bolsheviks. He realized that something  
imposed by domination and violence from above  only creates the same mirrored 
response from  below. It is just a matter of time. He realized  that the only 
communism that would ever be  helpful to the world was the voluntary and  
joyous simplicity of a Francis of Assisi. (As a  Franciscan, I am indeed a “
communist” as we  share all things equally and from a common  purse.) That 
element of the practice of the  early church (_Acts 2:44_ 
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and of Jesus (_John 13:29_ 
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any great seriousness. It was never  expected of the clergy—certainly not of 
the  higher clergy—and therefore why would we, or  could we, ask it of the 
rest of the church?  Jesus was training the leaders, because you can  only 
ask of others what you yourselves have done  first. He was initiating them as 
spiritual  elders, much more than ordaining them as  “priests” (which is an 
Old Testament word never  used for his apostles). 
Once we saw the clerical state as a  place of advancement instead of 
downward  mobility, once ordination was not a form of  initiation but a 
continuation of patriarchal  patterns, the authentic preaching of the Gospel  became 
the exception rather than the  norm—whether Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant. 
 The first human “demon” that normally needs to  be exposed is the human 
addiction to power,  prestige, and possessions. These tend to pollute  
everything. 
Once we preach the true Gospel, I  doubt if we are going to fill the 
churches. 
Adapted from _A Lever and a Place to  Stand_ 
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Prayer:
I am powerless without  You.              

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