<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thankyou Ken <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 28 Sep 2017, at 1:14 am, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><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 [<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>] <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></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>