<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3815" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3814" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3813" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3966" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3821" face="Arial" size="2"> Post Script to Lent/Easter Reflections</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4426" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4427" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_6638" face="Arial" size="2">Reviewed my Prayer Journal for a word for the living of these days and came across wisdom from Marcus Aurelius.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4428" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4429" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4430" face="Arial" size="2">"Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impending our intentions or dispositions. The impediment to action advances actions; what stands in the way becomes the [W]</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4967" face="Arial" size="2">ay." </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_5884" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_5885" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_5886" face="Arial" size="2">The church (iglesia) I attended on Easter Sunday morning is called El Semprador (the Sower). The service was spirited and lively beginning with praise dancers who sang and danced accompanied by a band. All youth who also acted out the Passion from beginning to the Resurrection. Translation was instantaneous by the daughter of Pastor Carlos. The hymns displayed the lyrics in Spanish on two large screens up front. The message was timely and rehearsed again the pertinence of the Story that we never seem to tire of.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4185" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_6595" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4776" face="Arial" size="2">Just as I am beginning to take a serious interest in appropriating Espanol (after 50 years) opportunities abound. This is my friend Alicia's (from the 6th floor) church. We communicate though she speaks little English. And I expect to attend with her again. They welcome all to the church including the homeless whom they feed after the service with a free meal. Congregrants make a small donation to further the church's ministry.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_7302" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Still going to church online also.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Grace&Peace,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Dawn Collins</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_7379" dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">We love the Source because the Source loved us first.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">- 1 John 4:19</font></div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><div dir="ltr"><br>----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_6005"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_6004" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Isobel Bishop via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Elsa Batica <marosel2000@yahoo.com>; Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:31 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Oe List ...] A footnote to the Lent–Easter journey<br></div></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_4776" face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492734216239_3968" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7562557071"><div><div>Thankyou George🎈🎉<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class="yiv7562557071yqt4560534276" id="yiv7562557071yqt27088"><div><br clear="none">On 20 Apr 2017, at 2:55 am, Elsa Batica via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="yiv7562557071yqt4560534276" id="yiv7562557071yqt49220"><div><div>Now I like it! Abwoon! Learned something everyday. Love this group.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br clear="none">On Apr 19, 2017, at 11:31 AM, John C via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
</div></blockquote></div><style>#yiv7562557071 #yiv7562557071 --
_filtered #yiv7562557071 {font-family:Arial;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv7562557071 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv7562557071 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
#yiv7562557071
#yiv7562557071 p.yiv7562557071MsoNormal, #yiv7562557071 li.yiv7562557071MsoNormal, #yiv7562557071 div.yiv7562557071MsoNormal
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}
#yiv7562557071 a:link, #yiv7562557071 span.yiv7562557071MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv7562557071 a:visited, #yiv7562557071 span.yiv7562557071MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv7562557071 span.yiv7562557071EmailStyle17
{font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;}
#yiv7562557071 span.yiv7562557071msoIns
{text-decoration:underline;color:teal;}
#yiv7562557071 .yiv7562557071MsoChpDefault
{font-size:10.0pt;}
_filtered #yiv7562557071 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
#yiv7562557071 div.yiv7562557071WordSection1
{}
#yiv7562557071 </style></div><div><div class="yiv7562557071yqt4560534276" id="yiv7562557071yqt01705"><div class="yiv7562557071WordSection1">
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">Good on ya, George. Really like “Abwoon.” Keep it up!</span></div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;">John</span></div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;">
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;">OE <<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> on behalf of George Holcombe via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none">
<b>Reply-To: </b>George Holcombe <<a href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:geowanda1@me.com">geowanda1@me.com</a>>, Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none">
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:27 AM<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b>ICA/OE List Serves <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>, ICA/OE List Serves <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] A footnote to the Lent–Easter journey</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">This has turned out to be a good Easter conversation. May I add two more things?
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">Some of us may surely know that the word Easter actually derived from the German pagan goddess, Eostree, which also explains the bunny rabbit. Some scholars point to when Christianity spread to England as the time this celebration came
into being, prior to that it was just Passover. Western Christianity, which is primarily what was shaped after Constantine made it the religion of the Roman Empire is basically what we have (with a few amendments like the reformation) and the many threads
of Christianity: Easter orthodoxy, Coptic, anabaptist, gnostic forms, etc. are only remotely acknowledged and rarely known in any depth.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">When I went to seminary Greek was taught and a little Hebrew, but the language Jesus and his disciples spoke, Aramaic, was rarely mentioned let alone examined. It is a more complicated language, more orally understood that by the characters.
Emphasis on one syllable or another can change the meaning of the word as well as the context for what is being said. Abwoon (english letters not the Aramaic characters) is the word scholars say Jesus used for God. We got the Greek translation Aba or abba
meaning a male. Abwoon is gender neutral and comes in 2 parts, “Ab" was part of a reference to an earlier female goddess among other things and “woon" can be translated to mean the void from which all things come. This would have really blown out the lights
in my seminary. Imagine referring to God as Mystery rather than Daddy.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="color:black;">George Holcombe<br clear="none">
<a href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:geowanda1@me.com">geowanda1@me.com</a><br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
"Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
<div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;">
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">On Apr 18, 2017, at 4:09 PM, Seth Longacre via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">Thanks, David. I found that helpful.</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><b>Seth Longacre</b></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sethlongacre@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sethlongacre@gmail.com">sethlongacre@gmail.com</a></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">Sent from one of my iThingies</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br clear="none">
On Apr 18, 2017, at 13:53, Karenbueno via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;">
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Well said, David.</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">Karen Bueno<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">-----Original Message-----<br clear="none">
From: David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none">
To: OE Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none">
Sent: Tue, Apr 18, 2017 2:45 pm<br clear="none">
Subject: [Oe List ...] A footnote to the Lent–Easter journey</span></div>
<div id="yiv7562557071AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_2876ec01-2660-4f0b-a654-a91704fa0f58">
<div>
<div>
<div style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;">
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">A footnote to the Lent-Easter Journey</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;">
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">To the extent that we grow into the Genesis affirmation that all creation is good, the Lenten-Easter journey is transformed and transforming. Jesus’s “Lenten Journey” was toward Jerusalem
and a confrontation of history, politics, and spirit at the Cross. He wasn’t practicing giving up stuff or penitence for his human frailty. He was practicing discernment of his own life calling and seeking the courage to offer his life to that mission. Lent
is about discovering our highest and best selves and the focus of our engagement. It’s a time of opening to what is emerging within us and a season of exploring what keeps us from wholehearted self-offering. Easter is the joyous celebration of the eye-popping
inner realization that the Power of Being Itself—the God-Christ-Spirit Word that brought matter to life with energy at the moment of creation—is behind and within all opening, exploration, discovery, and becoming. Lent is the practice of discerning how Creation
is transforming our lives and Easter is the celebration of Creation’s infinite grace-filled supply of uplifting and life-giving spirit within flesh.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">April 18, 2017</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"><br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">David</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"><br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"><br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">—<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
<DMD email sig photo small-Nov2012.jpg><br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
"Mystery, possibility, and the power to choose”</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">David Dunn<br clear="none">
740 S Alton Way 9B<br clear="none">
Denver, CO 80247<br clear="none">
720-314-5991<br clear="none">
<a href="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com">dmdunn1@gmail.com</a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
OE mailing list<br clear="none">
<a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none">
<a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;">
<div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
OE mailing list<br clear="none">
<a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none">
<a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
OE mailing list<br clear="none">
<a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none">
<a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="yiv7562557071MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>OE mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>OE mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="yqt4560534276" id="yqt71944">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">OE mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>