<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Yes, gratitude in my heart. 😊🙏<div>I had my 88th recently and find life enjoyable ( mostly ).</div><div>A very Happy Birthday Jann coming up 👋👋💐🎈 and to all those listed as recent 👋👋</div><div> I still am concerned about many societal issues. I number greed and a feeling of powerlessness and then racism as holding us back from living abundantly. </div><div>Grace and peace dear colleagues. </div><div>Isobel </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 12 Apr 2024, at 5:44 pm, Jann McGuire via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, Dick.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be 87 in June<br><div><br></div><div>Jann McGuire</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM Susan Fertig via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3916354931901077419">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I turned 80 in January. LOOOVE it! Wouldn’t want to be any younger!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Papyrus">And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought . Isaiah 58:11</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Papyrus"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> OE <<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Alton via OE<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>; Colleague Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Alton <<a href="mailto:richard.alton@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.alton@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] We are getting older- what fun<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:115%">Ok, last week I got an email from Alisa Oyler that her mother, Marilyn Oyler, is turning 80 in April. She asked me if I would send her a card listing a particular gift she brought to the world
or at least a card. No problem- her mom is full of gifts.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:115%">And then this morning John Patterson called me up looking for an email address. We chatted and he let me know that his 80<sup>th</sup> birthday was April 22, Earth Day. It is just like John to
have his birthday on the most important day of the year.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:115%">I think it is part of the Order Rule that we send anybody who makes it to 80 a card holding up a gift. Well, at least a card. I just sent John a card that said, “I looked all over Chicago for
an 80th birthday card, but nothing. This is as close as I could get- Happy 90<sup>th</sup> birthday- something to grow into!”<u></u><u></u></p>
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