Annual Conference and Meeting 2017 / Friday, Oct 13 - Sunday, Oct 15 in Phoenix, Arizona! When the annual conference planning committee comes together every other week, we read this verse by Rudolf Steiner, drawn from Marjorie Spock's Reflections on Community Building:
"Try to form a really heroic concept of loyalty. What people call loyalty is so evanescent. Trying making this your loyalty: You will find that there are fleeting moments in your experience with others when they seem suffused and illumined by the archetypes of their own spirits. And then other periods come--perhaps quite long ones--when their beings are as though clouded over. You can learn to say at such a time: 'The spirit makes me strong. I think of my friend's archetype, which I once glimpsed. No deception, no outer appearance, can ever wrest this image from me.' Struggle ceaselessly to keep this vision. The struggle itself is loyalty. In the effort to be loyal in this sense, human beings come close to their fellow human beings with the strength and in the attitude of a guardian angel."
Each time we read, we feel heartened by its hopefulness, and challenged by its request. Carry this verse in your notebook (and your heart), post it on your door, or read it with friends throughout the weeks leading up to our time together in Phoenix. Register here to join us October 13, 14, 15 in beautiful Arizona as we live into this call for faithfulness and loyalty to each other. Warm wishes, Laura Scappaticci and the Annual Conference and Meeting Planning Committee
"Try to form a really heroic concept of loyalty. What people call loyalty is so evanescent. Trying making this your loyalty: You will find that there are fleeting moments in your experience with others when they seem suffused and illumined by the archetypes of their own spirits. And then other periods come--perhaps quite long ones--when their beings are as though clouded over. You can learn to say at such a time: 'The spirit makes me strong. I think of my friend's archetype, which I once glimpsed. No deception, no outer appearance, can ever wrest this image from me.' Struggle ceaselessly to keep this vision. The struggle itself is loyalty. In the effort to be loyal in this sense, human beings come close to their fellow human beings with the strength and in the attitude of a guardian angel."
Each time we read, we feel heartened by its hopefulness, and challenged by its request. Carry this verse in your notebook (and your heart), post it on your door, or read it with friends throughout the weeks leading up to our time together in Phoenix. Register here to join us October 13, 14, 15 in beautiful Arizona as we live into this call for faithfulness and loyalty to each other. Warm wishes, Laura Scappaticci and the Annual Conference and Meeting Planning Committee
