22-05-2014

Dear Sara Hipperson:

Many thanks for you informative and helpful letter with its history of Greenham Camp post 2000 – the development of the Peace Garden – a wonderful action, returning the Camp to Greenham and Greenham receiving it with gratitude!  What a wonderful symbol of Non Violent living – benefiting both the violent party & its victims.

And thank you for your excellent book which inspired and encouraged me decade ago and inspires me even more as I read it again.

I especially liked one sentence in your letter in which you write: ‘The time spent at Greenham simplified life for me in a way: – in spite of all the hardship I was relieved of many of the problems that take up so much of our time.”

In an earlier sentence you had written – “When I think to the time we spoke (pre 1980) the protest dominated all my thinking – spiritual and life style – non-violence governed both.  Today I find they both exist without a great deal of thought by me.”  What a wonderful sentence.  You no longer think about Peace and Justice – you have become it.  

Congratulations & thank you for that gift to all humankind – a gift which cannot be destroyed – God’s own life! 

And thank you for the corrections you sent me on the two standards and I shall ensure that is included in “Cry of Wonder” which I shall send you when published.

Gerry Hughes SJ