[Oe List ...] The Revolution was going to be over in 2007 and we were all going home. . . .
Marge Philbrook
msphilbrook at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 09:05:29 EST 2007
Beautiful statement. Thanks, Marge.
On 1/15/07, Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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