[Oe List ...] Recent items: Jaime's/Herman's/Sandra's memorial book
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Tue Apr 19 12:51:49 CDT 2011
Your piece is precious, Jaime. Thank you from my heart.
Thanks to those instrumental in getting Sandra's transitional readings
compiled and available in book form. It is a valuable resource that many
hospice programs would probably love to have. I treasure it.
Thanks for renewing your call, Herman. Are you planning to compile the
responses, or should we try to save them in our own files?
My book, Illness as Initiation: An Unlikely Heroine's Journey might be
included in such a compilation. Chapter 5 gives Order background specifically.
_http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html_
(http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html) is the link where you can read the intro and first 2 chapters. It's
available as an e-book from the publisher, kindle or apple.
I so agree with All the Earth Belongs to All, not just people.
I'd love to read some stories expanding on Jaime's narrative of the HDTP,
with descriptions and dialogue, sights, sounds, smells, textures. Not just
that event, but many people's experiences.
In a message dated 4/17/2011 9:10:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
hfgreene at mindspring.com writes:
Very beautiful Jaime. I have “survivor’s guilt” of leaving the Order
before these great excursions into human development projects. Where I was I don
’t think I could have handled it.
Still I can identify as one who went forth and formed one new religious
house and maintained-recreated others. In that role I identify with what you
wrote.
Our spirituality must be passed on, and yet of course it is in some way,
and yet. I think this is the reason Jack keeps calling us back to be the
Order Ecumenical. It’s a calling I can’t leave aside. Not being able to leave
it aside I am fearful because we have grown in many ways and wouldn’t be
able to fallback into past orthodoxies and our own fundamentalisms. Surely
one thing we would change is “All the Earth belongs to All,” simply all
Earth’s beings.
Many of us are in the sunset of life, yes in that glow that lights the
sky, a golden age. The call rings forth “Those who die on the march, will
renew their strength.” Then there are those who were young in those days and
are in the middle of their lives. We must see that this is carried forward.
Not to diminish the ICA archive project, or the ICA, but rather to get to
the deep mystery at the heart of both. It is the Order Ecumenical, it is
the spirit deeps that must go on.
Not to leave this completely hanging, I thus renew a call I made a year
ago for people to write on those things that made us what we are and do so
with the experience, knowledge and wisdom that has come to us over the years,
not simply by way of repeating what we said then . . . things like
contextual ethics, secondary integrity, the Iron Man (and Woman), the missional
life, the missional family, intentional-comprehennsive-futuric and archaic,
knowing-doing-being, living out of two suitcases and so many other things.
What is like for you when you first encountered these things, what
happened to you, how you have integrated into your life in dispersion, strengths,
weaknesses, dangers, how it can guide present and future generations.
John Cock has a good list in one of his books, I’ll copy it and send it
out. We could add to it. It might be good to have a meditation book, where an
individual would take a single one of these topics and write 3-5 pages and
then put this together in a meditation book. One topic, of course, would
be “the Order Ecumenical.”
I just had a thought, why not call the book, The Order Ecumenical, and at
least in part acknowledge that we who continue to live out of this and
those would choose to are the Order Ecumenical.
Herman
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