[Oe List ...] free speech, Romney and tenderness

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Thank you so much for this, Mary, and for standing for Love.
 
Jann
 
 
In a message dated 9/20/2012 7:05:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
mhampton at att.net writes:




 
Dear John, George, Herman, Susan and all,
 
First, George thank you for the meditation.

 
I have been reading with interest these two threads: one about the  
sensibilities and practical safety in avoiding angering people in the larger  
world, the second about how we listen to each other when our values do not  match.

 
Tenderness in my subject line is not some sentimental value of being nice  
to each other. It's more like the RS1 illustration of feeling everything  
(every perspective) through burned raw nerve endings. Quakers use it in  
talking about how you hold Business Meeting where the objective is "to descern  
God's will." There is a great book by a Jesuit who came to observe and  
participate called Beyond Consensus. Recognizing you are in a corporate  endeavor 
to do more than what humanly possible, you must make extreme  allowances 
for the others doing the process. You aim to treat each other  tenderly.

 
Of course, the world does not use this standard, but one can hope the  
People of God could.  It is the gift and duty of Those Who Care to be  sensitive 
when others cannot.   Indeed, its how you know who they/we  are. 
 
Grace and Peace, 
Love, LIGHT,
 
mary
 





 
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 From: George Holcombe  <geowanda1 at me.com>
To:  Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, September 20, 2012 5:09:56  AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...]  A good reflection on Romney

Part of my early morning meditation  is coming across some of the writers, 
spiritual guides, etc.  and I got  Richard Rohrs this morning and thought 
about us.  


"      
THE REIGN OF GOD
              
There  are always two worlds. The world as it operates is largely  about 
power; the world as it should be, or “the Reign of  God,” is always about 
love. How can you live in both worlds  at the same time? As you allow yourself 
to loosen your grip  on the first, you will gradually see the inadequacy and 
 weakness of power as domination or control. You will then  tighten your 
grip around the second, which is the ever purer  motivation of love for others 
instead of yourself. 
Any  exercise of power apart from love leads to brutality and  evil; but 
love that does not lead people to a whole new kind  of power is mere 
sentimentality and emotion. I must admit,  it is rare to find people who hold both 
together in perfect  balance—who have found their inner divine power and use 
it  for others. 


Prayer:
Your will be  done. 



 
 
 
 
 
George  Holcombe
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Austin, TX 78728
Mobile  512/252-2756
_geowanda1 at me.com_ (mailto:geowanda1 at me.com) 


Hope appeareth, but it is not  your Hope—you do not have anything to do 
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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