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Sunday Gathering
November 24 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Program and Reading
Sunday, November 24, 2024
What the World Needs Now: Capacity
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Guest Teachers: David Takitaki is a Professor of Political Science at Ferris State University where he directs the Political Engagement Project and specializes in Civic Education. He is a writer, consultant, and regularly lends his expertise to local and national media. He and his wife Amanda Rzucidlo now reside in Big Rapids, Michigan with their three ridiculous cats and a glorious view of the Muskegon River.
Musician: Matt Gabriel is a touring singer songwriter based in Grand Rapids, who has spent over a decade writing and performing music around the country. His music is the quality of folk and blues you would expect from an artist who grew up between Chicago and Detroit. He’s got a must-see live show and a very approachable recorded sound. It’s music you can trust and believe in.
Music: Matt Gabriel
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Matt Gabriel
Meditation: Charlotte Rozich
Moment of Silence
Readings/Teaching: David Takitaki
We are enjoined, no matter how uncomfortable it might be, to consider ourselves and our cultural institutions scientifically—not to accept uncritically whatever we’re told; to surmount as best we can our hopes, conceits, and unexamined beliefs; to view ourselves as we really are. . . Because its explanatory power is so great, once you get the hang of scientific reasoning, you’re eager to apply it everywhere.
- Carl Sagan
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed Marked the mastodon The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow, I will give you no hiding place down here. You, created only a little lower than The angels, have crouched too long in The bruising darkness Have lain too long Facedown in ignorance, Your mouths spilling words Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out to us today, You may stand upon me, But do not hide your face.”
– Maya Angelou
Music: Matt Gabriel
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Matt Gabriel
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