Kunena Site Syndication http://www.franciscans.com/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:03:59 -0700 Kunena 1.5.6 http://www.franciscans.com/components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images/english/emoticons/rss.gif http://www.franciscans.com/ Kunena Site Syndication http://www.franciscans.com/franciscan-forums/2-the-living-room/367-greetings-and-introduction.html#485 Peace to you, Michael -- I also found it surprisingly confusing at first, but I am finding the welcome genuinely warm and deep at this point. Each contact I am having -- from other seekers to folks well and deeply connected -- is confirming for me the welcome of this community. Someone responded via e-mail to my invitation to tell their story and I was so touched by their openess and vulnerability that I was moved to tears. I hope that you, too, find the welcome you are looking for and, perhaps more importantly, the one you are needing at this time. If I can be any part of that, do not hesitate. Pax y bene, Erik PS -- I didn't reply sooner because two weeks ago, around the time you first posted, I fell down my basement stairs, breaking my right shoulder. I then had reconstructive surgery and, since then, have been more than a little out of it. I'll be recovering for a LONG time, unfortunately, but I'm back at the computer again. And thankful that the damage was not worse than it was. Again, if I can be of any service to you, brother . . . Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:05:47 -0700 http://www.franciscans.com/franciscan-forums/2-the-living-room/483-i-had-a-dream.html#484 Sorry that you didn't make it to the retreat in Boston, and even more sorry to hear of your injury! I'm sure you will find the OEF to be home, as I have as well. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:15:14 -0700 http://www.franciscans.com/franciscan-forums/2-the-living-room/483-i-had-a-dream.html#483 I am so dissapointed not to have been able to spend any time with those of you who recently met outside of Boston. I know I;d been saying that the weekend didn;t look like it was going to be a good one. The final straw was my fall down the basement stairs on the Wednesday before, during which I fractured my shoulder in three places. Nothing approximating funny in breaking your proximal humerus, let me tell you. Anyway, while in a viadin-assissted slumber I had a dream that I was at a gathering of my clan -- Unitarian Universalists. I'd just finished giving a talk on something or other, and was out in a hallway. Two people approached me, one I knew and one unknown to me. The one I knew was a member of OEF (in the dream). So, apparently, was I. He was introducing the new person to me as someone who was interested in the Order, and me to them as someone who had been involved for a while. ("We call him our Master of Fun," he said.) After such introductions my friend left and I began to talk with this person about how the spirit was moving in his life such a way as to consider the OEF. I woke up feeling quite at home. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:42:01 -0700