[Oe List ...] Delayed email to Sandra

[M. George Walters]

Thanks Joe

This gives new meaning to living life to the fullest and the very last
breath.

 

With kindest regards.

 

M. George Walters

 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Joseph Slicker
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 22:46
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] Delayed email to Sandra

 

 

Dear Colleagues

     I am forwarding an email that I sent Sandra on January 17, 2011.  Since
it was a combination of a delayed 'Thank you' for her kind response to my
Christmas Greeting, and an offering of comfort, I did not send it in as part
of the prayer vigil.  Then I saw LiDona's wonderful pull-together of the
over whelming awe-filing responses. They are magnificent out-prourings of
heart-felt diversities of care. I then felt my email to Sandra was an
appropriate response to go with the collegial expressions.  With One Love
that embraces us all.  Joe Slicker.

 

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From: Joseph Slicker <joseph.slicker at gmail.com>

Date: January 17, 2011 3:11:20 PM CST

To: Sandra True <icatrue at igc.org>

Cc: Joseph Slicker <joseph.slicker at gmail.com>

Subject: Gratitude for your Aliveness

 

Dear.Dear Sandra:  Please accept my heart-felt 'Thank you' for your kind
response to my Christmas Greeting.

          Your attitude of gratitude is an awe-filing expression especially
in these days of your pain, chemo, sudden-turns-for- the- worse, and on and
on.  Gratitude floods ones heart with the awareness of being Alive.   

          Living and dying go on, but being Alive is beyond and encompasses
both.  We see in our Aliveness that 'Life simply is...Being simply is.
beneath the comings and goings of forms.'

          The gift of awareness also allows us to step back and watch the
pain and suffering as well as the elations and reliefs that continually rise
and fall, in and out.  This step back also sees the Joy of being Alive.

          It comes with the peace that continually flows its presence.  So
relax.  Enjoy the flow.  Oh, yes, you laugh and cry, you hurt and feel
relief; you might think 'Why?' or explode into ecstasy, but in every moment
you can sing Halleluiah! ("Praise for what is.") 

          The All, that is the continually coming of wholeness, is Love in
action.  Its Joy of Aliveness is present to every one and thing. 

          Attached is a "Morning Affirmation" of Love that I hope may be of
help.  Start with 'Be loving, kind, and compassionate with myself..'  Go
into stillness and watch how the flow of forms of darkness and luminosity
continually take place.  Don't make it heavy.  Lightly watch the buoyancy of
their dance as each flickers by.

          Talk to yourself.  Thank yourself for being Sandra.  Play that out
any way you like.  Giggle and ache.   Be tender and patient with yourself.
Carry on with Robert and comfort him.  Play with your nurses and hospital
staff.  Cry and scold if you must.  When all this gets to be too much,
continue or drop into stillness..or take the morphine, and doze away.   All
and all, Love the one called Sandra.

          Remember, that all creation groans to be the Aliveness you are.
One Love, Joe Slicker

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