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<DIV>Thank you so much for this, Mary, and for standing for Love.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jann</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 9/20/2012 7:05:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
mhampton@att.net writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear John, George, Herman, Susan and all,</DIV>
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<DIV>First, George thank you for the meditation.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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 <U>Beyond Consensus</U>. 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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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
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<DIV>Grace and Peace, </DIV>
<DIV>Love, LIGHT,</DIV>
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<DIV>mary</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> George Holcombe
<geowanda1@me.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, September 20, 2012 5:09:56
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Oe List ...]
A good reflection on Romney<BR></FONT><BR>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.
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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.</P>
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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.</P>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">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.
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