<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Mary Hampton <<a href="mailto:mhampton@att.net">mhampton@att.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b> July 3, 2014 at 12:58:02 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> Randy Williams <<a href="mailto:randycw1938@gmail.com">randycw1938@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: Madman or Martyr? Retired minister sets self on fire, dies</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Thank you, George, Del, Jack and Randy and others,</div><div><br></div><div>I am at a Gathering of 1200 Quakers in western Pennsylvania (California, PA no less). Our theme this year is "LOVE is the first motion". After breakfast, I sat down to read my e-mail. First, i read or comprehended that Charles had died. Then I read George's email "Immolated" with the Methodist article. My world was rocked.</div><div><br></div><div>I did not know Charles well. I did run into him once at Grace Methodist a few years after we moved to Austin. I was there because a women's group was quilting the top I inherited from my grandmother. He was a gracious host and professed to recognize me although I had come up and introduced myself.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember his Mountain of Care story about helping the old man to the bathroom on the plane.</div><div><br></div><div>My first thought was, to the best of my knowledge, I was the only one of these 1200 loving, committed people who had a direct connection at all to this life and death. I have a horror of the means. AND YET, if we decide in every moment where we expend our lives is there not also a blessing in being able to decide where to give our deaths?</div><div><br></div><div>I will go to Charles' Memorial Service. </div><div><br></div><div>Grace and Peace. Love, LIGHT,</div><div>mary</div><style id="article-content">
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