[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Ginga Wilder]

Being from SC and all that we have gone through I am quite familiar with
the +SC....and the local argument about who has that moniker.

Lord have mercy!!
Ginga

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ginga, I noticed that at the end it said it was by Scott Benhase. He's the
> bishop of one of the midwestern dioceses.
>
>
> > On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is how to tell the truth.  Lynn, did Georgia send a link to the
> > article?  I would love to share it but don't think that I will do that
> > without also including its origin.  (DT might accuse me of putting out
> fake
> > news.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ginga
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> There's a scene in the 1977 film, "A Bridge Too Far," that's stayed in
> my
> >> memory. The scene is of a thousand wounded British soldiers spread out
> on
> >> the ground awaiting boats to take them to safety after an epic battle
> >> during WWII. The camera pans over these soldiers lying there exposed and
> >> helpless and a lone soldier stands and begins singing the hymn, "Abide
> with
> >> me." Soon all the soldiers join in forming a great choir:
> >> Abide with me, fast falls the eventide: The darkness deepens, Lord, with
> >> me abide:
> >> When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O
> abide
> >> with me.
> >>
> >> Eventually, they make it back across the river safely. This film is
> about
> >> an actual military battle called Operation Market Garden. In 1944,
> British
> >> Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery believed the Allies could parachute
> nearly
> >> 35,000 soldiers behind enemy lines, cut off the enemy's supply lines,
> and
> >> change the course of the war. He convinced himself that the paratroopers
> >> would face little resistance, only youth and old men with guns, even
> though
> >> reconnaissance photos provided by his subordinates and reports from the
> >> Dutch underground showed two German tank divisions and front line troops
> >> present. The operation was a disaster and Allied soldiers paid the
> price.
> >> Of the 10,000 British paratroopers sent, history reports only one in
> five
> >> returned.
> >>
> >> This film isn't about a military battle or even military strategy,
> really.
> >> That's merely the dramatic container for an important history lesson.
> It's
> >> rather about the hubris of leadership and the consequences when leaders
> >> don't listen to those who may know more than they do. Montgomery failed
> a
> >> basic test of humility with respect to leadership. Believing something
> >> doesn't make it so. And failing to listen to divergent voices,
> especially
> >> provided by the "rank and file," often leads to disastrous decisions.
> >>
> >> The real hubris in this situation (and in others since then) is the
> >> leader's willingness to actively ignore facts that don't fit what he
> wants
> >> to believe. So, we witnessed over 400,000 dead Americans and Iraqis over
> >> non-existent weapons of mass destruction that UN Inspectors had said
> >> clearly didn't exist. We get the near collapse of the world economy
> caused
> >> by banks' institutional hubris even though there were plenty of warning
> >> signs everywhere about the housing bubble. And today we see refugees,
> who
> >> are vetted for 18-24 months before entering this country legally, denied
> >> entry. None of them come from countries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt,
> that
> >> have produced terrorists on American soil and not one refugee vetted and
> >> brought to America has engaged in terrorist acts.
> >>
> >> Once again, we're witnessing the hubris of leadership, which demands a
> >> circular logic that goes something like this: "Because I'm the leader
> and I
> >> believe something is so, then it must be so, because I'm the leader."
> The
> >> cost of leadership hubris is rarely paid for by the leader. It's most
> often
> >> the weak and helpless or those who are bound to follow orders that pay
> the
> >> price. Wanting to believe something doesn't make it so. Willfully
> ignoring
> >> the facts isn't a leadership virtue.
> >>
> >> Help of the helpless, O abide...
> >>
> >>
> >> The Rt. Reverend Scott A. Benhase
> >> Bishop of Georgia
> >>
>