[Oe List ...] a talking paper on being an order of secular religious in 2006

[SVESjaime at aol.com]

David,

The passion of your mind is compelling.   You have expressed it well.

At the entrance of my shovel of a dwelling is a metal sheet that reads:   
"the Majuro House."   Right below hangs an iron Congolese Cross.   They represent 
my daily office and end of the day accountability structure.   They remind me 
of who I am, what I do and what I know.   The name I give all that is the 
Order Ecumenical!

Each summer, in my mind, I formulate a report on the year's happenings in my 
sector (Area Suva), deliver it to a virtual global order council.   My 
entrance symbols run the accountability ritual, and I move out of the apartment, 
muttering "Yes and No," or "No and Yes."    Been doing this twenty-two years.   
Would have been interesting if I jotted my reports down in a journal!

Your call to consciousness and corresponding "do" should resonate among the 
60+ year olds among us (though not exclusively) who may still have a decade 
spurt of genius to accommodate giving form to the doing, knowing and being of the 
Order Ecumenical.   There is a ripeness of the time, and I sense in myself a 
readiness to say, "We are the People."

The newly opened O:E repository offers a platform of discourse.   David, if 
you've already done some doodling, offer us a framework on how we might get the 
"talk stories" stage initiated, with the intent of eventually embodying the 
Order Ecumenical and someone, actually booking a hotel hall somewhere so that 
we might mix the margaritas and the bloody marys once again, but for the first 
time!   Let the hacking begin.

Jaime 
Saipan
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