Arture, Julie, Dan, Doris,Jeff,Joelle,Koos,Toni, Ken, Michael and Michael and
all my friends of the list,
I want to thank all of you for holding a safe and precious space for the
"word from a friend" thread .It has been an exhausting effort, at times, to try
to make sense about craziness, but you have made it meaningful for me. Knowing
that so many of you are on the same "frontier" of peace-making, even if calling
it different names, give me a deep sense of belonging to "a common good" and
always give me food for thought and nourishment for the heart&soul.
Michael H wrote (about who is fighting who)
> am wondering if this could not also be said to be about those who love
something
bigger and those who love something smaller, rather than love and hate?
not
about 'how much' the caring is, but about its scope, about the size of
the
object of the love. not meaning to twist words or redefine anything
here, but
wanting to say that this is how i'm understanding it now <
It definitely can be said in this way and I am trying to word and think
this way most of the time but at times I need to clarify and differentiate -
this was the case for me.
I would like to illustare it by telling ya little story that happened 2
days ago :
Avner Haramati and myself are part of an NGO of volunteer professionals
who work to promote dialogue between social-extreme groups in Israel. This
group exists for almost 10 years now and has done a great job in developing
tools and promoting dialogue between extremes. Two days ago we had an emergency
meeting ( for various reasons we are running out of funding). The current
chairman of the NGO in a 45 years of age man , an observing Jew who leaves in a
settlement, is now doing his reserves duty in the army. He is a wise and
passionate man (and facilitated his first Open space 3 weeks agar for the first
time...) so I called him to see if he has any message to share with us since he
will not be able to attend in person. He said: "Tova, I don't know how to
describe it but I/ we here are doing only survival .We have to be focused if we
are to stay alive and to trace suicide bombers before they blow up in a heavily
populated area. We stoped 2 women with explosive beltsin the last 24 houres.
What can i say. One thing you can tell them : that it warms my hear to know I
am part of a people and a society that when I am here watching the frontier of
safety I can count on you there doing the frontier of dialogue".
love and respect
Tova
Holon, Israel
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