William Appelgate, one of our guardians and known to many of you. I only decided to add his name after Sunny added her mom who was personally known to me and was truly a saint.
The fact of the matter is that we are all saints as well as sinners. We tend to focus on the latter and diminish ourselves and the wonder of creation in the process. At the Iowa In-gathering this weekend I had an amazing encounter with a woman who told a wonderful story about how my father had changed her life forever simply by honestly answering her question at the end of a presentation he had done for Heifer International. She spoke of the confidence and affirmation of her life his clear and simple answer provided her as a ‘new to the community’ teacher. She has never forgotten him and the lesson of his response which shaped her life as an educator.
Don’t diminish, either in your lives, your relationship to yourself and others, or in your relationship to the world and the ground of your being your own sainthood. You are always in the process of encouraging and sustaining others (me) in being.
Margaret
From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Sunny Walker via OE
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Helen Walker (my mom) – unknown to most of you, but a saint, nonetheless.
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day tomorrow
Thanks so much, Doris and Frank.
Isobel Bishop
Maisie Maher
I am thinking it would be helpful exercise to post a list of colleagues who have died since last November 1 (2013) -- All Saints Day.
I will start with our most recent one, and please add all the others:
Judy Gilles