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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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am sorry to say that even though I appreciate your secular pater noster, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am still concerned with asking the cosmos for forgiveness for all the times I have stepped heavily on the earth. It seems that admitting our culpability is essential to moving forward. I could go on and on. I am not trying to say that guilt is necessary, but it seems like co-creation requires a trust based in honesty. Margaret<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Fisher via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> George Holcombe; Order Ecumenical Community<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] conversation on white trash racism<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>Both through recent experiences and 'our daily Rohr', I’d like to share with you my wording of a current secular ‘pater noster'.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>Compassionate cosmos...</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In which we live,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>and with whom we find our meaning,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>Grace us with your presence.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>Support our freedom to be love as we are loved.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>Trusting in your never-ending hospitality,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>So be it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-CA>And, as I have already shared, I love this poem by </span>Hafiz.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>Look what happens with a love like that.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>It lights the whole sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>Feeling the warmth of the sun (the immediate sustainer of our habitat) and wanting to ‘be sun too’,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"ArialMT","serif"'>Ken<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>