[Dialogue] Jim Fenton

[Nancy Lanphear]

Dear Sally and family,

Fred and I celebrate Jim's life and death with you.  Our paths have crossed
many times since our days in the Cleveland region many years ago.

Here is some poetry that holds this time in our lives when friends and
family "*members turn aside, alone, out of the sunlight gone. Into the
darker circles of return."*

*
*

*CIRCLES         *

*    **Within the circles of our lives*

*We dance the circles of the years,*

* The circles of the seasons, within the circles of the years, the cycles of
the moon, within the circles of the seasons, the circles of our reasons,*

*                              Within the cycles of the moon.*

*Again, again we come and go, Changed, changing.  Hands Join, unjoin in love
and fear, grief and joy.  The circles turn, Each giving into each, *

*Into all.  only music keeps us here.*

*Each by all the others held.  In the hold of hands and eyes, *

*We turn in pairs, that joining, *

*joining each to all again.  And then we turn aside, alone, out of the
sunlight gone. Into the darker circles of return.*
*
Wendell Berry*

* *Our healing candle will be lighted (lit) surrounding your names as we
hold you in our prayers.

With love,

Nancy and Fred

,


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tracy E. Longacre <tel at telphoto.com> wrote:

> I remember Jim fondly. May he rest in peace.
>
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> I just want to melt away in all its grace, drift away into that sacred
> place, where there’s no more you and me, no more they and we, just unity.
> -Trevor Hall
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
> [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Terry Bergdall
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 6:14 PM
> To: Colleague Dialogue; Order Ecumenical Community
> Subject: [Dialogue] Jim Fenton
>
> Kathy Scharko, who currently serves as ICA-USA's accountant, just informed
> me that her father, Jim Fenton, died last night. Plans for a memorial
> service are being made and I'll share them once they are known. Terry
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