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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Jaime, did I miss something? Are you terminally ill, or were your string of recent emails simply marking passage from one earthly plane to another, departing Saipan for___?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>I was deeply touched by each email. Stopped everything to sing, alone at my computer, “At the Center” and felt a wave of love and nostalgia roll over me palpably.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Loved your stories about your dad and his wanderings, the accident in Cagayan (though born in Panay I grew up in Mtn Prov of Luzon) leading to a time when he perhaps wished to re-create that scene more definitely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>My time in EI and ICA are like those pieces of metal grafted into your dad’s very bones—which is more “real” the graft or the raw material? Which is it that hurts when it rains? Which would you give up, the metal or the bone? Hard choice that, if you had to make it. But the one thing I think the Spirit Movement got wrong is the one-dimensional universe. I’ve not “been” there, but I’ve “seen” the other side. Not a 2-story structure, but a multi-dimensional reality. The end of the earthly body is not the end. I know beyond a doubt it is the beginning. It is the freedom even Bonhoeffer (and any of us humans) can only see “through the glass darkly.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Those who wait on the Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> Shall renew their strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>They shall mount upon wings,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> Like eagles!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>They shall run and not be weary,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> They shall walk and not faint,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Help us Lord, Help us Lord, in Thy way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Those who love the suffering world,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> Shall renew their strength,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>‘’’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Those who die on the march,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> Shall renew their strength,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>…<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Those who live the risen life,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'> Shall renew their strength,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Not sure if those are the words exactly as we used to sing them, but it’s what I sing today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Euphemia","sans-serif"'>Grace + Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#080808'>Susan<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#080808'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'>Susan Fertig-Dykes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'>(personal email account)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought . Isaiah 58:11</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>STOP E-MAIL ADDRESS HARVESTING<br>Protect your family and friends<br>Please use "BCC" when sending to multiple addresses!<br>Please delete E-Mail addresses when forwarding!<br>Please be kind and remove my email address when you forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#080808'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>