<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">for what it is worth...I wrote the name of Ecclesia incorrectly. :-) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">It is Ecclesia Ministries Mission and more information for those who are interested may be found at <a href="http://www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org/">http://www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org/</a>. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="font-size:large">Barbi Click</span></font></i><div><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/barbiclick/" title="View public profile" name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_webProfileURL" style="margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:middle;color:rgb(0,115,178);line-height:13.196022033691406px;display:inline-block;zoom:1;background-image:url(http://s.c.lnkd.licdn.com/scds/common/u/images/apps/profile/sprite/sprite_profile_top_card_v8.png);background-color:rgb(246,246,246);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank"><i><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">www.linkedin.com/in/barbiclick/</font></i></a><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><i><br></i></font><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif"><i><a href="http://feathersandfaith.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://feathersandfaith.blogspot.com</a> </i></font></div><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif"><i><a href="http://facebook.com/bgclick" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/bgclick</a></i></font></div><div><font face="'arial narrow', sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><div><p style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i><font face="Helvetica, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"> </font><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-size:small;line-height:18.2000007629395px">He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.</span></i></p><p><span style="line-height:115%"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></i></span></p><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></i><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Barbi Click <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgclick@gmail.com" target="_blank">bgclick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Georgia">Dear beloveds, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Georgia"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Georgia">Here is a bit of highlight from my time at Ecclesia Mission Ministries conference. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Georgia"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Georgia">Everything is about Relationship. It is all about relationship. </font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">A story about Relationship:</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Gennie from Trinity Church in Boston:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">She has been sight-impaired since birth. She walks with a sight
cane as she ministers to the homeless who are around Trinity Church.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">She told of one man who made sexual advances towards her. It was
all innuendo but clearly pointed. She leaned towards him and asked, “Is this
about sexual intimacy?” Boom. There it was, blatantly laid out on the table. He
began stuttering and clambering for words to back out of what had become an
uncomfortable conversation for him. But she continued to converse. He finally
said, “I have not been touched in 12 years. I just want someone to touch me.”
She asked him, “May I give you a hug?” As tears streamed down his face, he
said, “Yes.” And she did. She said she is not a hugger but that she hugs him
every time she sees him.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">People hunger for more than simply food. Poverty isolates.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Bob Flick+ on Francis:</span></p>

<ul style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-top:0in" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Francis stripped
     naked – to become obedient (to hear)</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">He heard the
     word of God tell him to rebuild San Domiano – to build community</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">He began to
     work as a minister in a leper colony.—he wanted to be able to embrace the
     leper.</span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Embracing the leper became a metaphor for following his deepest
desire. The leper was within him.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Emptying/letting go – we have to strip naked before being
filled, being able to embrace our own leper.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Bonaventure wrote about Francis. For Francis, the world was the
monastery. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia">Francis asked: How can I be a contemplative in the world around
me?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Bonaventure used the example of the Temple.</span></p>

<ul style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-top:0in" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">The court as
     the outer ring – world outside of the self, creation. It’s about
     relationship between the outside and me.</span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">God is in the crap as well as in the
roses. Nobody needs fixing by me. There is no good change without relationship.
Developing relationship is about being open to the presence of God in one
another.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"><br></span></p>

<ul style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-top:0in" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Sanctuary –
     inside the self – conscious, memories, imagination – WHO AM I?</span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Memory is the IS of eternity. We have
a past, a future – but the NOW – present to the stuff inside of us.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">In touch with self- memories need to
be contemplative.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Eucharist is being present to the Now
and the remembering of the Holy Spirit on these gifts.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Jesus told us to remember him. We rob
ourselves of the contemplative life if we do not spend time in our memories,
good and bad.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">We are called into something much
more profound than just getting the job done. We are working to learn/feel
compassion. For ourselves, towards others, for God.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">God made flesh in Jesus was to show
us that all of this is doable.</span></p>

<ul type="disc" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Holy of Holies – Beyond self. God as God.
     Godness, Trinity, Mystery.</span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">To be present to God in mystery.
Bring in relationship with a God that is beyond our knowing.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">God is most essentially relationship:
Love changes. God is love. God changes. God is constantly creating new things
which means change.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Love – God is relentless.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">I knew I had to change my narrative. In the midst of this talk,
I felt the tears begin. It became a flood and I had to get up and go to the
back of the room. I knew something really big was happening. I didn't know what at the moment but I knew it was important. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">As the tears flowed, I felt the resentment, anger, bitterness
flow out of me. It was a profound moment and I knew I was different. The
understanding didn’t all happen quite so quickly but soon after it became
apparent. I felt changed. I felt a calm that I have never felt before in my
life. And it remains.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia">God <u>is</u> relentless. </span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia"> </span></p></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="font-size:large">Barbi </span></font></i><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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