[stylist] believing the unbelievable

[Debby Phillips]

Hi Jackie so sorry you didn't get to stay at the monastery. I hope that you get to either to stay there or in a similar place.    Debby 

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> On Aug 5, 2015, at 7:37 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Debbie,
> You said a very wise thing. Lynda often understands so much of what we
> write, that it illuminates things we did not even know exactly what we were
> trying to say.
> I also liked your piece very much. It was deeply felt and sensitive.
> When I was in Idaho visiting my sister, she took me to a place that accepted
> week-long visitors. It was run by months. I really wanted to stay there,
> having experienced such trauma in my life, that I just wanted Silence and
> meditative time. It did not work out, because of family activities. One of
> life's lost opportunities.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz     
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Phillips via stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 8:28 PM
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> Cc: Debby Phillips
> Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable
> 
> Thank you so much, Lynda.  Prayer there at Mount Angel is present 
> everywhere, in everything that is done.  The whole day centers 
> around various times of prayer.  So for me, I was surrounded by 
> it, and it surrounded me, if that makes sense.
> 
> I'm not sure what I will do with this, I mean, I'm keeping it, of 
> course.  But I don't know whether I will submit it anywhere other 
> than here.  In a way it's so personal, so precious, this memory 
> of another time in my life, and my longing to return there.  I 
> feel like you understood so much more than I even did as I wrote 
> it.  (Smile).  Thank you so much, Lynda.    Blessings,    Debby
> 
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