[Oe List ...] The Gifts of Marianna

[the telfords]

TO:  the BALLARDS

 Louise and Jack, That was a great story to read.  I could 'see' it all!!
 Grace and Peace
 Elaine and John Telford
from 'Down Under'  in theBlue Mountains,



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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 3:37 AM John Ballard via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Dear Marianna,
>
> When we came to the Washington DC house at 4th and Rhode Island, NE, the
> old Discalced Carmelite Monastery building, surrounded by a cemetery, we
> were assigned to a room across the hall from Jim, Karen and baby Jonathan
> Troxel.  Since we were pregnant with our own baby (soon to be Christopher),
> we appreciated our neighbors who helped us settle in.  That was January
> 1971.  By August, 1971, new leadership was assigned to our DC house and we
> met Marianna and Bill Bailey for the first time.  The first thing that
> struck me was the nearly instantaneous set up of the room across the hall.
> With energy and decisiveness, Marianna and Bill had that space ready to go
> in a day.  Pictures hung, décor set up and all.  I realized there was a
> force in the house to be reckoned with!  Marianna and Bill were amazing
> priors, thoughtful leaders, helpful parents to new ones like us.  We felt
> cared for, more than anything, by the spirit maturity that these two
> inseparable priors brought to us.  Marianna, remember the walls of the
> Great Hall that were covered in burlap to prevent the walls crumbling.
> Thanks to the Newkirks and many, many other DC colleagues and staff, this
> massive project made it possible to have a huge meeting space in the
> basement just down the hall from the kitchen and just past Larry
> Philbrook’s room.  By the following year, you were reassigned and so were
> we.  Life was good in the Washington DC house.  I believe that Lynda and
> John Cock followed you and Bill.  I’m sure someone else will tell the
> stories of Oklahoma 100.  I was grateful to spend a month in Oklahoma City
> doing in-kind donations in preparation for that gigantic campaign of Town
> Meetings.
>
>
>
> Marianna, we are so grateful for your long life of steadfast dedication to
> care for all and care in the local.  May you feel blessed at this time and
> journey on, journey on.
>
> God’s grace and peace be with you,
>
> Louise and Jack Ballard
>
>
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