<html><head><base href="x-msg://1089/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Marshall, for you nailed it. Art was as much the Order as any of us is. He understood the un-written rule and lived our form of disciplined corporateness in his own situation. The OE had a form, but it was part of a formless Order that existed, and still exists in the world.<div><br></div><div>Have a great time in Junaluska! Your presence when the Springboard met there was profound and your stories and love for what it represents were enlightening. Go in Faith brother.</div><div><br></div><div>Jack<br><div><div>On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:47 AM, W. J. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; ">"<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: white; ">I always wondered why he didn't move right in. . ."</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Of course there was a 'why.'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It was obvious that Art was recognizably one of 'the Order' in spirit, even though he never 'moved in.'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">My best guess as to 'why': sometimes those who are called to be the Order are also called to deal with their family covenant as a primary condition. Art leaves behind a wife (Becky) and a profoundly mentally disabled dependent son (Mark). Not a good 'fit' with our corporate 'craziness.'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I also think of Jim & Eunice Mathews as part of the Order who never 'moved in.'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Marshall, who is heading to Lake Junaluska today!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>George Holcombe <<a href="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net">geowanda@earthlink.net</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tue, July 24, 2012 7:10:28 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Oe List ...] Art Brandenburg<br></font><br>I was on some writing teams with Art at Summer Programs. He was always ahead of everyone in concept and wording, like he had been there before; I always wondered why he didn't move right in, but I can see he made a great contribution doing what he did. We have touched a lot of people with OE and ICA and some have touched us back.<br><br>George Holcombe<br>14900 Yellowleaf Tr.<br>Austin, TX 78728<br>Mobile 512/252-2756<br><a ymailto="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net" href="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net">geowanda@earthlink.net</a><br><br>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<br><br><br><br><br>On Jul 23, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Jack Gilles wrote:<br><br>> Marshall,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Thanks for sharing this and especially the link. Art was one of the early master teachers I encountered. He was a sign of what the Church was about. His legacy with the Order and the Movement is a great one. May he journey on in peace and tranquility. 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