[Dialogue] The Revolution was going to be over in 2007 and we were all going home. . .

[Paula Philbrook]

Yesterday I waited on Sheridan Road in front of 4750 to pick up my Mom, Marge
Philbrook.

Just in front of the brass entrance way sat a large moving truck reminiscent of
the courtyard at assignments time.   I pondered the International Conference
Centers' weekend schedule from a number of years ago:  US Socialist Network,
Carmelite's National Urban Retreat,  Chicago Paganism Workshop, and First
Baptist Church Louisville.  (While waiting for the elevator, I overheard a young
man with a Southern accent,  "I did not know there were any pagans alive today.
I thought that was from the history book". I laughed silently as I boarded the
elevator with the group caring their pillows.)

People, I did not recognize, loaded the mattresses and bunks. The Girls Scouts
were picking them up.

The Ecumenical Institute's mission to maintain a center of ecumenicity seemed to
be disappearing as the mist dissolves with the morning light.

History continues to be changed by small groups of caring people who hear the
word, discern the judgment and lead society. Where is the injustice? What is the
social act of repentance?

Paula Philbrook