[Oe List ...] With Love, Hope, Peace and Joy at the Holidays

[Tracy E. Longacre]

Margaret,

 

You are in my prayers and will be most intensely on the 29th. Good doctors
whom you can trust are a great blessing. May your body, mind and soul be
strong and steady in this time.

 

(Technical note to webmasters - I did not receive the original of this
message - from any list, and I'm subscribed to all three.)

 

   Tracy E. Longacre

   UN Volunteer

   from Buala, Solomon Islands

 

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"Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a
war on want. . . It is the attitude that one has been born fundamentally
rich rather than that one must become rich. Without this kind of confidence,
meditation cannot be transferred into action at all."
-Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

 

From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Isobel & Jim Bishop
Sent: Saturday, 20 December 2008 5:17 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] With Love, Hope, Peace and Joy at the Holidays

 

Our very dear Margaret,

Thank you for sharing this so hearfeltedly with us.. You can count on my
lighting a candle for you and your journey, which I will begin over the
evening meal tonight. You will be encircled with love and prayers.

In peace and love,

Isobel Bishop.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Margaret Helen Aiseayew <mailto:aiseayew at netins.net>  

To: Colleague <mailto:Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>  Dialogue ; Order
<mailto:OE at wedgeblade.net>  Ecumenical Community ; earthrise at yahoogroups.com


Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:34 PM

Subject: [Oe List ...] With Love, Hope, Peace and Joy at the Holidays

 

Dearest Colleagues,

 

I have been deeply involved with some health concerns for quite some time.
Usually notes like this come to us from second parties, but my circle here
in Iowa is intensely blood family.  Only a few of them can even begin to
understand the intensity of  my collegial circle, a family of choice so to
speak.  I want to draw the circle of love and care and friendship that I
count on all the time as large as I can.   I am sorry that we cannot combine
the Dialogue and OE lists so that so many of you (as I do) will not get this
two or three times.  When you continue to not know anything there is really
nothing to share.  Now seems the time.

 

I have been diagnosed with breast cancer (invasive lobular carcinoma--ILC)
and a week from Monday, December 29) they are going to do a complete
mastectomy.  This is a breast cancer that is almost never found on
mammograms and ultrasounds.  I've been through five since August and even
the last report two weeks before the lumpectomy declared "there is no mass."
:-)

 

I am confident in my doctors and confident in my faith.  I don't know why I
have been chosen for this special journey (not unique, and not a detour) but
I trust that the purposes will be revealed with time to someone somewhere,
even if it is not revealed to me.  I also know that I can count on your
prayers and energy coming my way for whatever results the creative powers of
the universe may have in mind.

 

My life with you has been a gift of being beyond compare.  Few have been and
are as blessed as I.

 

Emmanuel, Margaret

 

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