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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Amen! Margaret! Amen!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Nan
Grow</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">Margaret Aiseayew via OE</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">'Order Ecumenical Community'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 07, 2016 1:51
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Oe List ...] Personal
Reaity</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In these times (in which we are still the people), we all
find ourselves in vastly differing personal realities. I am serving two
very small congregations here in the middle of Iowa and this past weekend was
our Thanksgiving Ingathering. Between the two churches (where attendance
ranges from five to ten in one and ten to fifteen in the other) we managed to
raise nearly $12,000 for contributions to global missions presented at the
In-Gathering. Please don’t start on the inadequacies these contributions
(or missions) represent and celebrate with me this large accomplishment of
very few.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Believe it or not, all that we have been discussing here on
the list is tearing at the fabric of these small communities. I felt
compelled to address it this morning in a witness that I titled “The Time Has
Come.” I am severely constrained in the language I use. I have
tried to convince them in many ways what I mean when I used the word
‘God.’ I tried to address their fear, frustration and anxiety. I
closed my talk this morning by reminding them that no matter what happens on
Tuesday, on Wednesday morning when we rise God will still be God and we will
still be charged with loving God’s world and all that is in it with every cell
of our being.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Margaret<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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