[Oe List ...] Fwd: Madman or Martyr? Retired minister sets self on fire, dies

[Mary Hampton via OE]

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> From: Mary Hampton <mhampton at att.net>
> Date: July 3, 2014 at 12:58:02 PM EDT
> To: Randy Williams <randycw1938 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:  Madman or Martyr? Retired minister sets self on fire, dies
> 
> Thank you, George, Del, Jack and Randy and others,
> 
> I am at a Gathering of 1200 Quakers in western Pennsylvania (California, PA no less).  Our theme this year is "LOVE is the first motion".  After breakfast, I sat down to read my e-mail.  First, i read or comprehended that Charles had died.  Then I read George's email "Immolated" with the Methodist article.  My world was rocked.
> 
> I did not know Charles well.  I did run into him once at Grace Methodist a few years after we moved to Austin.   I was there because a women's group was quilting the top I inherited from my grandmother.  He was a gracious host and professed to recognize me although I had come up and introduced myself.
> 
> I remember his Mountain of Care story about helping the old man to the bathroom on the plane.
> 
> My first thought was, to the best of my knowledge, I was the only one of these 1200 loving, committed people who had a direct connection at all to this life and death.  I have a horror of the means.  AND YET, if we decide in every moment where we expend our lives is there not also a blessing in being able to decide where to give our deaths?
> 
> I will go to Charles' Memorial Service.  
> 
> Grace and Peace.   Love, LIGHT,
> mary
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