[Dialogue] What a Community

[Janice Ulangca]

Thank you for your comments and for the fine hymn verse, Charles.  It speaks eloquently of what I dream of now for ICA-USA.  What hymnal does it come from?  Oh, we need good new hymns!  (From one who helps select them for a UMethodist congregation.)  Janice Ulangca

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles or Doris Hahn 
  To: OE ; Dialogue 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:05 PM
  Subject: [Dialogue] What a Community


  When we returned from a brief visit with Bob and Sandy
  Rafos, I turned on my email and was overwhelmed with
  "Subject:  Re: Secondary  Ethics, etc. etc, etc.  I
  searched to find the origin of this flood and finally
  found Marshalls's Earthrise Witness.   What an
  amazing, swirling, soaring, and mundane dialogue
  flowed from it.   To all who participated in this
  tectonic occurrence I extend the arms of warmest
  embrace.  As a symbol thanks to all of you, I extend a
  special thanks to Marshall for initiating it and to
  John Kroger for the most powerful counter-point.  

  Last Sunday at church the preacher at our 8:30 service
  talked about the community of the faithful.  As we
  sang the final hymn, The Servant Song by Richard
  Gillard, I was reminded of the wonderful dialogue I
  had been reading from you, and all the others who did
  not write, my eyes misted over in gratitude for my
  continuing community.  Here is the hymn.  I include
  the last verse because it is the last verse.  However,
  it seem to me that we are already singing in heaven.

  Brother, sister, let me serve you, let me be as Christ
  to you;
  Pray that I may have the grace to let you be my
  servant, too.

  We are pilgrims on a journey, we're together on the
  road.
  We are here to help each other walk the mile and bear
  the load.

  I will hold the Christ light for you in the darkness
  of your fear;
  I will hold my hand out to you, speak the peace you
  long to hear.

  I will weep when you are weeping; when you laugh, I'll
  laugh with you.  
  I will share your joy and sorrow till we've seen this
  journey through.

  When we sing to God in heaven, we shall find such
  harmony,
  Born of all we've known together of Christ's love and
  agony.

  In gratitude for you all,
  Grace and Peace,
  Charles Hahn



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