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Sunday Gathering
September 3, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading:
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Sunday, September 3, 2023
We Have Questions: Does Beauty Matter?
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.
Musicians: Ruth and Max Bloomquist bring Ruth’s award-winning abilities as a songwriter and singer and Max’s harmony and touch on the upright bass, to share their heart-touching, acoustic Americana that is all their own. Ruth’s trademark rich alto is unmistakable, and her songs evoke images and emotions common to us all.
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Meditation: Bob Kleinheksel
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Kent Dobson
Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing
I asked the earth, I asked the sea and the deeps, among the living animals, the things that creep. I asked the winds that blow, I asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, and to all things that stand at the doors of my flesh . . . My question was the gaze I turned to them. Their answer was their beauty.
– St. Augustine, quoted in The Call of Beauty, John O’Donohue
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
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