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Christa Hillstrom is the daughter of Scott Hillstrom, one of the
leading developing health care franchisers in the world. Last winter
she worked with us on a documentary film about Sewa Ashram. Here is a
letter she wrote to her friends around the world. Please take your time
and experience rather touching moments at Sewa Ashram.
Passing through Twilight Zones
by Christa Hillstrom
"He came to Simon Peter, who said, 'Are you going to wash my feet?'
Jesus replied, 'You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand'
…When he finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place.
Do you understand what I have done for you?"
-The Book of John
I never thought I would be the kind of person who quotes the bible at
the start of a letter. Really, that is uncool, right?
But someone told me to read this part of the bible recently, and I
picked it up and found this kind of interesting. I like these
parts when Jesus says weird, cryptic things and everyone around him
says… "Huh?" and shrugs at each other. So I read this part,
about Jesus washing people's feet, and them saying, "Why on earth would
you do something so pointless, especially to those who are considered
to be inferior to you?" And Jesus tells them, yeah, you
don't get it now. But you will.
There has been a lot of death around lately, and this is pretty new for
me. Every death I've experienced in my life has come to me first
over the distance of the phone, but I've never really been
right in the crux of it. And every time, without fail,
there was the general consensus that death was a big deal....
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