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Sunday Gathering
October 22, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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Sunday, October 22, 2023
A Few Parting Thoughts
Speaker: Kent Dobson is spending his last Sunday Gathering with us as Lead Teacher, the position he has held since September 10, 2017. His teaching title that morning was A Thing Ripened, and he offered us the words of Rilke, advising us to wait like a thing ripened until it’s real. We have wrestled and ripened over these six years as we enjoyed and learned from Kent’s teachings. Now it’s time for us to thank him and wish him well as he and the family take up residence in Georgia.
Musician: Grace Theisen is a queer Americana artist originally from Kalamazoo. After graduating from Hope College, Grace moved to Nashville from 2015-2018 to run her nonprofit, Songs Against Slavery. She returned to Kalamazoo in 2019 and has been influential in the Michigan music scene. She is one-third of the band The Rebel Eves.
Music: Grace Theisen
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Grace Theisen
Meditation: David Dean
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Kent Dobson
However just and anxious I have been
I will stop and step back
from the crowd of those who may agree
with what I say, and be apart.
There is no earthly promise of life or peace
but where the roots branch and weave
their patient silent passages in the dark;
uprooted, I have been furious without an aim.
I am not bound for any public place,
but for ground of my own
where I have planted vines and orchard trees,
and in the heat of the day climbed up
into the healing shadow of the woods.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn
and pick dew-wet berries in a cup.
-Wendell Berry, A Standing Ground
Music: Grace Theisen
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Grace Theisen
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