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

[Herman Greene]

Agree

 

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From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net
[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ellie Stock
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:09 AM
To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] free speech, Romney and tenderness

 

Thanks, Mary.

Ellie

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From: mhampton <mhampton at att.net>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 9:05 am
Subject: [Oe List ...] free speech, Romney and tenderness

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
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin, TX 78728
Mobile 512/252-2756
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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