[Oe List ...] Happy Thanksgiving

[marilyncrocker at juno.com]

Dear Sandra,

What a wonderful avalanche of Thanksgiving greetings to all of us you
have occasioned across the globe.  I imagine they will continue for the
next few days, and what a blessing!  Thank you!!

May I add our small voices to the chorus, and express our appreciation
for the vignettes folks like Isobel have added under the rubric "I
remember when....."  Ours is the ritual practiced in US Religious Houses
for many years of a procession with song to the feast, and the reading
and conversation about the Mayflower Compact.  And then there was the
fiercely promoted annual turkey stuffing contest in the NYRH between
Melinda Howell and Carlos Ollison (both versions of which were terrific),
and the rush Thanksgiving morning to 7th Avenue to get curbside seats for
the amazing Macy's Parade. And then the Thanksgiving we spent in
Kawangware following the Consult, and on and on.

Yesterday afternoon Joe and I attended an ecumenical Thanksgiving service
in Sanford, ME (the largest "town" in Maine -- which isn't saying very
big, except when compared to our little village of 2,000.)  It was a
wonderful gathering of seven different worshipping communities, each of
which had participated together in a profound 5 week series offered by
Southern Maine Hospice.  The pastor in residence at our nearby Gosnell
Hospice House offered the Thanksgiving Reflections during the worship.  I
was deeply struck by his image of "gratitude as a spiritual practice",
not something forced but spontaneous; and a pathway to God/Mystery.

Sandra, I immediately thought of you when I heard Larry's words.  For me,
each of your email communications to us have clearly been spoken out of
spontaneous gratitude, no matter how large your next mountain of
treatment loomed.  This is, indeed, an awesome and mysterious place from
which you speak, and I believe demonstrates what Larry was pointing to in
the image of "gratitude as a spiritual practice."

With love and deep thanks for you, Bob, Lyn and your extended family, and
for our extended OE/ICA family across the world,

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Grace and peace,

Marilyn and Joe

  
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:09:18 -0500 Sandra/Bob True <icatrue at igc.org>
writes:
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> 
> In the season if gratefulness, I am deeply grateful for all of you 
> on these lists. You are my community, I've experienced your care and 
> love.
> I lift a glass full of gratitude to you all!
> 
> 
> Hugs 
> Sandra
> 
> 
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