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Final zoom
author Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:49:07 +0100
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--- a/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt	Tue Jul 13 21:51:16 2021 +0100
+++ b/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt	Mon Jul 19 22:49:07 2021 +0100
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 [I can't help wondering to what extent it was possible to maintain,
 throughout the actions that make up most of 'ordinary' life, a sense
-of living a transformed life...  SM has immersed himself in Nayler's
+of living a transformed life...  Stuart, you've immersed yourself in Nayler's
 writings, do you get a sense of how his life seemed to him?  Was life
 in the image of God something that came and went, as it were?]
 
@@ -923,3 +923,40 @@
 exterior regulation of identity.
 
 Paused 34:59
+========= Closing session ==========
+TA: Had a my own convincement experience [30 yrs ago]
+    As much about the past (how limited my life was) as about the
+     future
+    After 6 months, "it settled", and wasn't solitary
+
+    "Surrendering oneself to a hearing and obeying relationship with
+     God in spirit"
+
+    This is the key to Heaven on Earth.
+
+    We do keep trying to hold on to a continuing dissatisfaction with
+    the way things are.
+
+    Heaven on Earth needs midwives
+
+SM: 
+
+BPD: (Carol Spencer Holiness) "Spiritual transformation on a Greyhound
+     bus"
+     Something resonates at a deep emotional level (about the right theology).
+     The Future is Now: A _collective_ imperative (as the "School of Midwives").
+     A problem for the ecumentical project ("Come on, catch up"!)
+      c.f. "We hold these things in trust for the wider church"
+
+---------  Mary Lou Levitt -------
+It was not by reading, or even sitting in MfW, that brought me to a
+sense of being guided, but rather when I had gotten up and gone out
+and tried to _do_ something.
+
+1 John 4 17
+
+BPD: C.f. AA meetings -- You _have_ to go to meetings
+
+SM: Unless you are carrying your cross... [Nayler, _Milk for
+babes..._]
+[c.f. Didst thou submit?]