<html><body><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> It isn’t easy being One with other human beings. It admits a relationship which we have to cultivate. It presupposes trust that will develop. I infers that there will be a common ministry among everyone, and, not incidentally, with God.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Then there were a few who were counseled, who were healed, who were enlightened and were invited to draw closer to Jesus, to become One with Him and the friends around Him. Some of them drew back. Becoming One – not having the inclination, the desire, the courage to become One with whatever Jesus’ mission might be, proved to be just too much. Becoming One with Jesus <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DOES</span></b> make assumptions. It implies that each of us is willing to put our talents, our energy, our resources at the disposal of someone else. It sometimes asks that we take a back seat, if the need arises, so that other, possibly weaker individuals or groups can be closer to the warmth, or energy, or nourishment for a while.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> As the psychologist put it, it takes courage to face down our dark side. It involves certain sacrifices. It <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CAN</span></b> and <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DOES</span></b> ask a lot of us. But deliberately seeking Unity, One-ness, opens us up to the amazing power of God to act as Jesus in the world. <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THIS</span></b> is what Jesus prayed that we would discover. It’s out of being at One with Him and with our sisters and brothers that God’s reign is exemplified and built up, and we can begin to bathe in the fullness of the glory which Jesus lived.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Curtis Almquist, one of the Brothers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, wrote this week,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 24, 35);"> “Glory, or to be glorified<b>,</b> is to teem with God’s light and life and love. It’s to draw from the deepest waters of life, how the psalmist prays: ‘For you are the well of life, and in your light we see light.’ The Gospel writers speak of glory as if someone were simply luminous, irradiated with God’s light and life and love.” <sup>2 </sup> <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THAT</span></b> is what Jesus longs will happen to us and be experienced by us.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “In recent weeks, the idea of destitute children just more than 20 miles from the cliffs of Dover has struck a nerve in Britain. Among those expressing concern have been opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn and actor Jude Law.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “But the reports and the images from France have carried a particular significance for survivors of the ‘Kindertransports,’ the convoys that brought nearly 10,000 predominately Jewish children to Britain from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1939 and 1940.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “One survivor, Alf Dubs, a Labour member of the House of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lords, <a target="_blank" href="http://labourlist.org/2016/03/britain-must-take-3000-child-refugees-alf-dubs-inspirational-lords-speech/" title="labourlist.org"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">proposed</span></a> an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.yvettecooper.com/refugee_task_force_petition"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">amendment</span></a> to the Immigration Bill to welcome 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children from across Europe. On Monday, the amendment passed in the House of Lords by a 306-to-204 vote. It follows a September <a target="_blank" href="http://media.wix.com/ugd/79c59a_6be1dd50262a4290a93eb241da6d7dc5.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">letter</span></a> signed by more than 100 British rabbis that urged Prime Minister David Cameron to admit at least 10,000 children over a six-month period.” <sup>3</sup></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THIS</span></b> is Glory beginning to shine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “As the rabbis wrote: ‘Let the Kindertransport be our inspiration.’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “In a recent interview, Dubs, 83, cited his own experience — he was one of the 669 Czech-born children saved by the stockbroker and humanitarian Nicholas Winton — as motivation for the bill.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> Born in Prague in 1932 to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, Dubs was counted as Jewish under the Nazis’ racial laws. He arrived at London’s Liverpool Street train station at age 6 and has lived in Britain ever since.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “’I owe it to Britain — and to the children — to do as much as I can to get this provision into the law,’ he said. ‘Children are the most vulnerable, the most likely to be trafficked.’”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “Winton, who died in July at 106, has become something of a British national hero, and the Kindertransports are remembered as part of what Winston Churchill famously called Britain’s ‘finest hour.’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> “’I call it a light in the deepest, darkest night of humanity,’ said Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s former chief rabbi. ‘The act of rescue of 10,000 children created 10,000 stories of hope.’”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"> Jesus called it “Being One” – with Him, with our Father, with each other.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learn<span class="textexposedshow">ed something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. ‘How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?’ the reporter asked.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “‘Why sir,’ said the farmer, ‘Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.’</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “So is with our lives.. Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...” <sup>4</sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">THIS</span></b> is “being One”, and Jesus is still praying for it, for us, for everyone. It <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DOES</span></b> take courage. But that’s why Jesus is sending us The Advocate.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> We are One. Oh let us be One, as You, Jesus, are One with Your Father and ours. Let us be One!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">NOTES:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">[1]</span></span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <i>“<a target="_blank" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-change/201102/it-takes-courage-face-down-your-dark-side">It Takes Courage To Face Down Your Dark Side”<span style="font-style: normal;"> by Leslie</span> <span style="font-style: normal;">Becker-Phelps in </span>“Psychology Today</a>”</i> posted February 2, 2011 <cite><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../it-takes-courage"></a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../it-takes-courage">https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../it-takes-courage</a>..</span></cite></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">2</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35);">Br. Curtis Almquist,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlightnode">SSJE </span>from Brother, Give Us a Word re: Glory </span>6<sup>th</sup> May, 2016 <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">sje</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.org/word/</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They were rescued as kids in WWII. Now they want to help today’s refugee children.” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By <a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/james-mcauley"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">James McAuley</span></a> March 27 </span><cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/...rescued...kids...no...">https://www.washingtonpost.com/...rescued...kids...no...</a></span></cite><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray;"></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Author unknown see, et al., <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjCj-DhwcbMAhVEnZQKHRGiCWkQFggoMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agiftofinspiration.com.au%2Fstories%2Fpersonalgrowth%2FGrowing%2520Good%2520Corn.shtml&usg=AFQjCNG1v0dJxeMo7ZbGtVlnVrcJm66zfg"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153);">Growing good corn - A Gift of Inspiration</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span><cite><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.agiftofinspiration.com.au/.../personalgrowth/Growing%20Good%252">www.agiftofinspiration.com.au/.../personalgrowth/Growing%20Good%2</a>...</span></cite></span></p></body></html>