[Oe List ...] Thanks Marshall and Jack et al.

[via OE]

Thank you for this lovely witness.  I just had my 70th birthday, and as I contemplate this new decade for me, and what next in regard to service, your comments and those of the OE Community represent precious guideposts.  I appreciate the time you took to articulate the role we still have to play.

Best wishes for a meaningful Christmas and a hope-filled New Year!

Catherine Welch, Denver 

From: Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE 
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 7:48 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community ; Jack Gilles ; W. J. 
Subject: [Oe List ...] Thanks Marshall and Jack et al.


Isobel and  Jim Bishop
isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au

Dear colleagues all,

A special thanks to Marshall and Jack for this profound discussion, encouraged by  others  on this list serve.  I strongly agree with the sentiments from both Marshall and Jack.  For me, I find myself still in the Abyss, in the ' no longer and not yet    place.   

Some years ago now the Packhard  family  visited Australia and we got to discussing the Other World charts and their extraordinary legacy for humankind. 

I did write and ask them to send us the package that they had worked on.   I wonder if that work is still available or perhaps even in the Archives, y'all.? 

I was very fascinated by chatting with George and Elise.  Australia is a very secular and yet deeply spiritual continent, undergirded by the Indigenous culture, which runs deep into the veins of us old folks. 

I won't belabour history for those of us at the first ITI in Singapore'  69;  and the enormous spiritual effect that ITI had on us all,including the 3 Aboriginals and the 20 pink Australians and all of the SE Asian participants  present. 

Some Church people like Jim and  others had already been quietly building relationships with the indigenous community well before that ITI. 

At the turn of the year, I will be sitting down with our Minister and describing to her the depth and breadth of the Other World Charts, and their significance for the present and future of our civil/ global  society. 

Our fondest greetings  to each one of you, and may the inauguration of your next President have elements of hope and grace  and forgiveness within the symbolic event, and thereafter.  Transformation  does happen,  through any and many means of grace. 

We are praying so. Those of us within the bounds of Christianity do trust that this is so.  Lately  our dear Muslim friends are holding ' have a plate of hummus'  as a kindly gesture to those of us who say yes…  

The future is still open for us to create my dear colleagues, and at 80, I am trying to quietly do my little bit.  Jim , 87, is too, as a ' passenger at the back of the bus.'    He still has paid his ticket though!  

Passing on the tools that are in our kitbag- is where I am sitting.   For the next thousand years, eh Jack!  

Blessings  without number on your lives….

Isobel Bishop. 




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