[Oe List ...] I'm Glad we got it right ... Celebrate Your Being Here

[Lynda Cock]

Delightful!   I wonder if I should send this to my nephew who is a monk in
South Africa?    :)
 
Hope you are doing well.  Indeed so thankful for this community.  
 
Lynda  

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of David Yost
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 8:35 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] I'm Glad we got it right ... Celebrate Your Being
Here


I wonder what else they got wrong... 

  

 

Monastery Life

A young monk arrives at the monastery.

He is assigned to helping the other monks

in copying the old canons and laws of the

church by hand.

[]

He notices, however, that all of the monks

are copying from copies, not from the original

manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the

head abbot to question this, pointing out that

if someone made even a small error in the first

copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that

error would be continued in all of the subsequent

copies.

[]

The head monk, says, 'We have been copying

from the copies for centuries, but you make

a good point, my son.'

[]

He goes down into the dark caves underneath

the monastery where the original manuscripts

are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't

been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go

by and nobody sees the old abbot. 

[]

So, the young monk gets worried and goes down

to look for him. He sees him banging his head

against the wall and wailing.

"We missed the R !

We missed the R !

His forehead is all bruised and he is

crying uncontrollably. The young monk

asks the old abbot, 'What's wrong, father?'

With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,

'The word was...

[]

CELEB R ATE

-- 
Grace & Peace
David Yost
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"What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us
as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as
our reaction to what happens". Lewis Dunning

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