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Sunday Gathering
September 17, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
Setting Free: From Grief to Gratitude and a Generative Generosity
Speaker and Musician: Brie Stoner is a writer, musician, and songwriter. Her writing has been featured in The Call To Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening, a book featuring inspirational voices such as Oprah, Tim Shriver, and Elizabeth Gilbert. Brie launched her podcast Unknowing in 2021, exploring the spiritual path of creative possibilities with various authors, activists and artists. As a musician, Stoner has worked with producers Jay Bennett (Wilco) and most recently David Vandervelde, who produced her new album.
Music: Brie Stoner
Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema
Music: Brie Stoner
Meditation: Charity McMaster
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Brie Stoner
What creative force sites itself in our heartbreak in tenderness that can be the beginning of giving ourselves away courageously to this life? No, no, there is no going back.
Less and less you are
that possibility you were.
More and more you have become
those lives and deaths
that have belonged to you.
You have become a sort of grave
containing much that was
and is no more in time, beloved
then, now, and always.
And you have become a sort of tree
standing over a grave.
Now more than ever you can be
generous toward each day
that comes, young, to disappear
forever, and yet remain
unaging in the mind.
Every day you have less reason
not to give yourself away.
-Wendell Berry, There Is No Going Back
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Music: Brie Stoner
Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema
Music: Brie Stoner
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