<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Ellie,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Thank you or this beautiful piece of poetry in the wonder of your Easter Sunrise Service. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your description of your time at the Lake was very touching.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peace be yours, with love,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Isobel Bishop. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Apr 2020, at 12:36 am, Ellie Stock via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">Thanks, Jack, and to all for your sharing.</div>
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<div class="">We returned from a nearby park in Ferguson, MO where we usually have our Easter Sunrise Service, which, this year, was not held due to the coronavirus pandemic. However three of us showed up as a symbolic presence, with our butterfly balloons waving in the wind on the west bank of January-Wabash Lake, a fountain of dancing waters greeting this new morning. Rain was forecast. The forecast was spot on--drizzling off and on as we began the liturgy. No trumpet this year. No crowds. No flocks of geese honking. A lone mourning dove in the distance, no visible sun ,now sequestered behind clouds.</div>
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<div class="">In the Christian context and poetry and metaphors, the service celebrates the interrelatedness of all beings and our continual dying and rising--the surprise of being resurrected, not necessarily of our own volition, but birthed through the consciousness, care, creativity, courage, compassion, and cooperation of global human and universal creation midwives of the Mystery. Life is resilient. We humans just need to decide if we want to continue to be part of this emerging, unfolding, increasingly diverse, gloriously complex process. Earth will endure.</div>
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<div class="">Just as we finished the service, the clouds burst open with lavish, cleansing, liquid joy. A lone goose on the bank nodded its affirmation. </div>
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<div class="">Grace and peace,</div>
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<div class="">Easter blessings and love to all.</div>
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<div class="">Ellie :)</div>
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<div class="">[attached: copy of the Easter sunrise service]</div>
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From: Jack Gilles via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">Dear Colleagues,
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The poet’s task is to communicate truth in a ways that cannot be communicated by prose. And I emphasize “cannot”. Language is the tool of the left brain. The rational, verbal scientific paradigm that replaced (or displaced) the two-story paradigm did a great deal for understanding and discourse. We are able to grasp the insight, see mistaken literalism. The right brain is mute. It sees wholes, not parts. </div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">But that does not mean that therefore the rational, impersonal, and statistical probability of how this planet functions is truth. That viruses just arise, that the Earth doesn’t consciously (not human thinking consciousness) communicate messages with intent. It does. This planet is alive, all of it, as an integrated system. Pain is real, death is real, and even a fly can sense when it is in danger. That system, that infinitely complex, but totally integrated system communicates by harmony. The even shifting, the ever changing and the ever evolving is a great Dance. And when we, the only part of creation that is capable of destroying the rest of creation do not dance, but march as masters of the fate of what actually sustains and enables us to actually live, then it consciously responds. </div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">We discerned a lot of that complexity in our Social Process Triangles. We knew intuitively that every triangle was connected to every other and we saw how our home works, at least the human sociality part. But it is only one triangle of three that actually needs to be grasped as an integrated system. That a is what the very top triangle in the culture does; <b class="yiv4859525212">The Myth Facto</b>r. It is about integrating the whole Social Process. And with that Myth Factor we dialogue with two other triangles. </div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The Social Process is about how the human beings organizes themselves into a system. It does not speak anything about either how this Earth functions or how my personal, unique, unrepeatable self functions. I am more than a cog in the social machine, and I am more than just a victim of a unconscious planet. I am a live, free, responsible, creation of a Mystery I will never understand, but who is as close as my breath, and knows every hair. And this Mystery loves his creation with infinite Mercy and Compassion. </div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The whole triangle I call <b class="yiv4859525212">The Human Process. </b> It is a dialogue (dynamic) of <b class="yiv4859525212">The Natural Process, The Social Process </b>and <b class="yiv4859525212">The Individual Process. </b></div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">This particular stream of the OE Dialogue is not where I want to share more detail on this. All I want to communicate is that this glorious Earth is a Great Poem, it is a Great Song, but most of all it is a Great Dance. And I learned that from Judy.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Peace,</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">On Apr 12, 2020, at 02:15, the telfords via OE <<a class="yiv4859525212" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The poet sort of implies that the current virus pandemic is a result of the way we have been treating the earth.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Personally I don't believe that to be true.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">But I think the poet is saying that this is giving us an opportunity to take stock of </div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">what is happening to our world as a result of our actions and now is the time to</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">stop being blind to the consequences of what we have been doing - take off the </div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">dark glasses and to change our behavior.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Certainly in Australia the unprecedented fire season we have just been through has </div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">been a real wake-up call to stop our denial of the part we have/are playing in causing</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">the drying up of the Darling River, the bleaching of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef etc.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">So we pray that at this time we continue to<span class="yiv4859525212" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </span><span class="yiv4859525212" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">love our neighbours, </span></div>
<div class="yiv4859525212"><span class="yiv4859525212" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">and start caring about the earth and all its creatures</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">A pretty appropriate message at Easter time.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212"> Peace</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:35 PM William Schlesinger via OE <<a class="yiv4859525212" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class="yiv4859525212" clear="none"></div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">So another thought. When some religious figures read Katrina as God's response to gender and sexuality preferences, we did not agree. They created that meaning, and we saw another reality.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">For those of us in the Christian tradition, our central text contains a story - 'who sinned that this man might be born blind'? And the answer was - 'No one sinned. This is an opportunity to show the works of God' (Matthew's gospel if you needed the citation).</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Viruses mutate. It's in their nature. And some mutations are more effective than others at spreading, infecting, and not killing the host quickly so they can continue to spread. For some of us, this is not 'caused' by human blindness or fear, but is an opportunity to show compassion, embrace forgiveness, and take responsibility.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Care for the earth - but don't use blaming and shaming in the process.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:02 AM the telfords via OE <<a class="yiv4859525212" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class="yiv4859525212" clear="none"></div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212" style="width:428px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;"><h5 class="yiv4859525212" id="yiv4859525212gmail-m_5327355917333823769gmail-m_-60307711866084539m_4993687644967409038gmail-js_0" style="margin:0px 0px 2px;padding:0px 22px 0px 0px;color:rgb(28,30,33);line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;">The earth whispered but you did not hear </h5>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The earth spoke but you did not listen,</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">The earth screamed but you turned her off.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">And so I was born.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">I was not born to punish you..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I was born to awaken you..</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">The earth cried out for help..</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Massive flooding. But you didn't listen..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Burning fires. But you didn't listen..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Strong hurricanes. But you didn't listen..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Terrifying tornadoes. But you didn't listen..</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">You still don't listen to the earth when:</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Ocean animals are dying due to pollutants in the waters..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Glaciers melting at an alarming rate. Severe drought..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">You didn't listen to how much negativity the earth is receiving..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212"><br class="yiv4859525212" clear="none"></div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Non-stop wars. Non-stop greed. You just kept going on with your life..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">No matter how much hate there was.. No matter how many killings daily..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">It was more important to get that latest iPhone than worry about what the</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">earth was trying to tell you..</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">But now I am here..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">And I've made the world stop in its tracks..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I've made YOU finally listen.. I've made you take refuge..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I've made you stop thinking about materialistic things..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Now you are like the earth.. You are only worried about YOUR survival.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">How does that feel?</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">I give you fever.. as the fires burn the earth.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I give you respiratory issues.. Has pollution filled the earth air.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I give you weakness as the earth weakens every day.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">I took away your comforts.. Your outings.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">The things you would use to forget about the planet and its pain.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">And I made the world stop..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212"><br class="yiv4859525212" clear="none"></div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">And now.. China has better quality air..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Skies are clear blue because factories are noy spewing pollution into the earth's air.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">The water in Venice is clan and dolphins are being seen.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Because the gondola boats that pollute the water are not being used.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">YOU are having to take time to reflect on what is important in life.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Again I am not here to punish you.. I am here to AWAKEN you..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">When all this is over and I am gone.. Please remember these moments..</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Listen to the earth. Listen to your soul. Stop polluting the earth.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Stop fighting with each other. Stop caring about materialistic things.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">And start loving your neighbours. Start caring about the earth and all its creatures.</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">Because next time I may come back even stronger....</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">by Vivinne R Reich - Feel free to copy and send.</div>
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<div class="yiv4859525212">Grace & Peace</div>
<div class="yiv4859525212">John & Elaine</div>
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