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Sunday Gathering
October 1, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading:
Sunday, October 1, 2023
We Have Questions: What’s the Point of a Religious Life?
Speaker: Kent Dobson has been the lead teacher at C3 since 2017. He’s also in the guide-in-training program at Animas Valley Institute in Colorado, an organization specializing in wilderness intensives. Kent leads Israel study tours, wilderness retreats, and has his own podcast called Hints and Guesses.
Musician: Matt Gabriel is a singer/songwriter who has spent over a decade writing and performing music around the country–the quality of folk and blues you would expect from an artist who grew up between Chicago and Detroit.
Music: Matt Gabriel
Gathering Host: David Dean
Music: Matt Gabriel
Meditation: Nelleke Knarr
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Kent Dobson
One day the earth opens her mouth
And swallows you whole, and God turns God’s back.
If you look back, you are turned to salt. And God twiddles God’s thumbs
And disappears into the cloud
You know nothing about.
It takes a long time, this
Terrible weaning, the wolf mother
Who leaves you sucking air instead of milk. No one comes looking for you,
Unlike Elijah, whose friends
Travel from mountain to mountain
In search of their friend.
You are so far gone, even
The voice of your lover is
Like an old voicemail you never
Managed to delete.
I, for one, wish this on no one,
Except some of you,
The ones I’d like to kiss
Like Judas, and betray you,
So you can feel again how you’ve Betrayed yourself.
Just remember, if this happens to you,
Do not fall in love with your stories.
Do not cling to any images.
Do not pray, unless you must.
Do not blame.
Do not run.
—Kent Dobson
Music: Matt Gabriel
Gathering Host: David Dean
Music: Matt Gabriel
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