[Oe List ...] Emailing: index.htm A Prison Carol

[Carol Crow]

I also would like to see "The Prison Carol".  Would Lynda or Jim S. 
please share it?  Thanks so much!

Carol
On Jan 9, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Janice & Abe Ulangca wrote:

> Thank you, Jim.  What a wonderful celebration.  And how meaningful for 
> you to share it with so many colleagues via this listserv.  I for one 
> would love to see  the Prison Carol, if that seems 
> appropriate. Perhaps it would be worth sharing with our local prison 
> ministry?  As both EI and ICA we have a history of caring not only for 
> those we call "colleagues" but for the widest community.
> Janice Ulangca
>  
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> Lynda, I'm replying without scrolling down to experience the 'Prison
> Carol', which I know will be profound. Not much time right now, though,
> so want to let you know that George indeed attended the service.
>
>
> I'm sending this to the OE listserve as well. (If Lynda decides to
> share "A Prison Carol with the listserve, she will.) Others of us may
> not know the Eric that Lynda speaks of above; he is Eric Webb, son of
> Craig, a Giant of a Local Colleague, a fact known by those who
> befriended him and were fortunate to know him.
>
> Eric, like Craig, has led a troubled life. He is now imprisoned for
> many years, and several of us correspond regularly with him. Partially
> out of respect for Eric's Dad, but also because we see greatness within
> this man of circumstance, this imprisoned soul brother.
>
> But this memo is not about Eric, but about the completed life of Ruthe
> Yost, a more well-known Colleague. I do not want my descriptive words
> to be the last said about the question raised by Lynda, which I take to
> be: "Please say some words about Ruthe's Memorial Service for those
> many of us who could not attend but were there in spirit."
>
> Clarence and Shirley Snelling officiated--Shirley at Ruthe's
> insistence! Songs from the Methodist Hymnal, in the order they were
> sung:
>
> Hymn #89, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee", Stanzas 1 & 4
> Hymn # 145, "Morning has Broken", Stanzas 1 & 3
>
> (Special Music: "The Rose", sung by a daughter and her friend w/
> guitar--Amazing affect!)
>
> Hymn #657 (sung antiphonally), "This is the Day"--"This is the day that
> the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it"--Clarence sang his
> lines with deep elegance.
> Hymn #117, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past", Stanzas 1, 4, & 5
>
> Clarence read the Beatitudes, saying that the translation was "his". He
> brought the verses into the present tense, consistent with the theme of
> the service--that Ruthe, a, and George, but especially Ruthe, lived
> every day in the realization that it was all she (they) had. Living the
> moment.
>
> A reception in the Fellowship Hall of Grace UMC, following the ceremony
> and  Committal of Ruthe's ashes in their Columbarium, allowed all of we
> gathered to mingle and experience community directly impacted by
> Ruthe's Living Spirit.  We recessed to the Columbarium to the tune
> "When the Saints Go Marching In" played in a "jazz" motif--very moving.
>
> George powered his own wheelchair. He was reserved, conscious of those
> approaching him, and in my opinion in close communication with his dear
> wife.
>
> The morning was over far too quickly. We parted group by group,
> intuiting that this had been an unrepeatable experience.  A final gift
> to us from Ruthe is the reminder that  this day is the only day that
> counts for us, and we must use it accordingly.
>
> I do not want my words to be the only ones said about today in Denver,
> but if they are, I render them up as that.
>
> Jim Slotta
>
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