[Oe List ...] the great conflict Re: Don et. al.

[ed feldmanis]

Don and all of you who are adding to our perspective, thank you. Thank you,
Don,  for including the letter from the minister in India.

As I was thinking about what you and David had said I saw some truths
running through the discussion.  These impact me and I want to share from my
point of view.

I feel very exposed and sometimes vulnerable as I read and Iisten to the
debate about the future and health care.  I see where I have been mistaken.
It is frightening not to always be right.  I see I have to change my mind.
My thinking comes at the point of revisitng  what I mean by loving my
neighbor.

I see what I believe is true about all of us, me and everybody; that is, we
live in a time of exposure.  Transparency is a nice word.  Yet we live in a
time in which transparency is our condition or it is forced upon us.
Someone always remembers something I said and someone knows that I am not
congruent.  It is frankly painful for me that people to know my life,
perhaps, even in a way that I don't know it.  On the dialog I notice we all
are unafraid to point the incongruencies out.

I think that there is a defense for this.  I think there is protection.
However, the only protection, I see is to speak my own truth.  Sometimes my
truth is different this week than it was last.  What I hope for myself is to
have the courage to own who I am.

The second thing I see going on is the struggle for contextuality.  My early
teacher, in my intern year, explained all the methods.  But what she said
was first above all is context.  The word context can be a broad term but I
think with our mutual background we know what this word is.  Context is to
the mind what breathing is to the body.  She also meant without a life and
death decision to get context right, to enable others to get to context,
life and fullness life is always hindered.  Context not only is the key to
communication, as I was taught in the first house in which I lived, it is
totally impossible to express faith and not decide to commit to creating
context. The teaching was rather powerful that first year.

I appreciate Don and David for their struggle to include what is needed in
the context so all of us may understand what we need to know about health.
I like Jean's comment about getting our perceptions out on the table.  I
think it will help us see common ground.

Ed
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