[Springboard] Prayer of Gratitude

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Jack,

Your witness brings with the reminder again of gratitude in my life.   
Thank you!

An experience of gratitude comes to me when I connect with the  
children (ages 8-16) of Songaia (our community) and listen to them  
talking and sharing about their land (our 10.7 acres).  They are at  
one with their universe, the fauna and flora upon the land (ant  
hills), the un-earthing of a spring, the saving of seeds, the  
rescuing of plant life, the burial of a dear pet, the interaction  
(that of conflict and/or joy) of the children with each other, their  
new grown-up relationship to us as adults/elders, the drying of  
fruit, the sharing of the day's events, and so much more!  I am not  
sure where this spin belongs in the structure of our life together,  
Jack, but your witness called it forth and I decided to share it.   
You are loved,

Nancy

P.S.  I also appreciated your email of the other day re: ICA board.   
Thank you for that as well.

On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Roscoe Addington User wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> I appreciated this witness. I suspect many of us can identify with  
> your
> experience and the intensified awareness it left you.
>
> See you in December.
> James
>
>
> On 10/6/07 5:07 AM, "Jack Gilles" <icabombay at igc.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Last week I did the first module of our modified TLL for a group of
>> young managers who are responsible for an Aluminum plant near
>> Mumbai.  This module was focused on Individual Transformation.
>> Since the first day (October 2nd) was Gandhi's birthday (and mine) I
>> decided to pull the issue of transformation through his life.  I used
>> the image many of you know of Michaelangelo's David in which he said
>> that David was already in the stone and all he did was to chip away
>> the pieces that revealed it.  (I've heard the same story about the
>> Chinese woodcarver).  The point being that the difference between
>> transformation and change is that transformation is about revealing
>> what is to be in the midst of what is now.  I then did an extensive
>> spin on the understanding of the implicate order (the OW in the midst
>> of TW).  I asked them what would it take to release the Gandhi within
>> each of them?  There was a lot of RS-I like awe in the room.   I
>> spoke of transparency and of living the brokenness of life.  There
>> was much more, but you get the drift.  The second day I did a spin on
>> the Three Great Awakenings of life.  In our language they are about
>> Justification, Sanctification and Vocation (decision to be the
>> Church).  The first is the awakening to your humanness, the
>> indicative freedom at the core of your being,  In the second
>> awakening I talked about the eternal YES that is at the heart of
>> everything, every event and every person.   The third awakening comes
>> more slowly, but if you stay awake in the reality of the first two
>> awakenings then the Mystery of Life will open the doors and reveal
>> the vocation for your life.
>>
>> Now the point of all this description (there was much, much more) is
>> to state the context for my gratitude.  I was in rare form, I was ten
>> feet tall these three days.  But if I was ten feet tall it is because
>> I was standing on the shoulders of you and so many other of our
>> colleagues.  I was deeply aware that anything I had to say was
>> because of the life I received and lived in the Order.  And the fact
>> that so many are still standing in these eternal realities gave me
>> courage to declare the possibility to those who were in the
>> program.   I may have added some of my style to the work, but the
>> content credit belongs to you.   And I hope you will continue to hold
>> me accountable to be the Presence of what I know to be true.  In the
>> beginning was the Word, and at the end there is the Word and because
>> of that reality we can live our life in abundance and fulfillment.
>>
>> Grace & Peace,
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>>
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