[Dialogue] More arrogance & perversion

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Marshall,

I absolutely love your e-mail below.  Wish I had written it!

I often think, when listening to the current debate on immigration reform, of 
our assignment, along with Kaye Hays, to the Global Language School in Tokyo. 
('74)  It was meant to be a self support strategy, but of course we didn't 
have a work permit in Japan or Korea.  Somehow JWM and LeRoy Willoughby got 
together and had a grandiose vision of Kaye, Fred, LeRoy and I making a LOT of 
money.  However, there was no foundational understanding or plan that would have 
made that possible.  LeRoy thought we were bringing money to get started.  Not 
only did we not bring seed money, we had to beg the Area Prior for our 
stipends, since we weren't on their assignment chart.  I'm chuckling through the 
painful memory now, but at the time I was ill that I had abandoned our children 
to tackle such an assignment.  That was so far above (or below) and beyond 
secondary integrity I don't even know where to put it.  I'm just glad we weren't 
treated the way illegal immigrants are treated in the U.S. today.

I may have cursed the day I joined the Order a time or two.  Still I am so 
grateful to have this phenominal community, and to have been a small part of the 
story. 
Jann McGuire

  
In a message dated 8/25/07 3:27:00 PM, synergi at yahoo.com writes:

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I had always thought that attending to my Meditative Council was an internal 
process... Now it happens via email! (Or at least the email generates much 
dialogue among my Meditative Council.)  

   

  

The discussion on primary and secondary integrity has really set me spinning 
about our life and mission together, and I’m very grateful for every colleague 
who drops a new insight from afar right in my lap. The synergy is amazing. 
Friday I was emailing Sarah Miller (ICAI) and mentioned work Mary D’Souza had 
done some thirty years ago. And within the hour, there was Mary, dropping into 
my lap insights from the Bhagavad Gita. Amazing! You guys are still alive & 
kicking.   

  

   

And if this weren’t far more than enough, here comes Mother Theresa from 
beyond the grave, letting us in on her internal experience of the Dark Night. I 
feel so blessed being a small part of this effulgence.  

   

  

  I also remind you (as though anyone needed it!) that, despite my 
occasionally authoritative tone, this NOT the voice of God, and that all I can offer 
comes from reflection on our common heritage.

  

   

     

     

Now for a true story:   

   

In 1968 I was traveling on a dark rural road after midnight with my boss, a 
clergyman. His car ran out of gas, and we literally coasted into a closed gas 
station on the fumes. No pay phone, no cell phone, no Triple A card, etc. And 
money couldn’t buy the gas that was in the storage tank.   

   

So we coulda spent the night in his car, fouled up our schedule, and missed 
our destination event the next day.  

   

  

What would you have done? No doubt about it. Clergyman jumps out and proceeds 
to siphon gas from a few junkers parked on the lot. (I wondered why he 
carried the equipment in his trunk!)  

     

   

Now if you resorted to siphoning and felt like a Miss Miller, you’d probably 
have put a dollar bill under the guy’s windshield wiper! Or if you were in a 
Maish mood, maybe you’d fill ‘er up with free gas instead of sipping just a 
gallon to get you to the next town.  

     

   

You think this story is about Secondary Integrity? Well, maybe it is, but 
I’ll tell you what real Secondary Integrity was for me that night. It wasn't 
about crowing or crying over a stolen gallon of gas.  

   

It included reading the signs of the times. And after the assassinations of 
King and Kennedy that year, I got the hell outa there and landed at 3444 
Congress Parkway. And I’ve never regretted it. (pause... very serious thinking)  

   

OK, maybe I WAS kicking and screaming a lot AND crying in my beer...   

   

But I never cursed the day I joined the Order.  Marshall Jones >>

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