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Sunday Gathering
March 24 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading
How Can We Find Our Sense of a Beloved World?
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Teacher: Ruth Zwald (she/her) starts every morning with good coffee and the crow of the rooster. Her spiritual path winds among the trees of Christianity, the flowering plants of Indigenous beliefs, the cycles of the seasons rooted in the earth. Every day she tries to find her way towards balance.
Musician: Frances Luke Accord, the duo Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers (both he/him), are what NPR’s Mountain Stage calls “the definition of leanin music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.
Music: Frances Luke Accord
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Frances Luke Accord Meditation: Nelleke Knarr
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Ruth Zwald
In our time and culture, we are easily pulled off balance by the many events and instances of disharmony and harm. Together we explore the word, “beloved” and listen for ways we can create such relationships. Love is a word that is a bit ruined – something we routinely speak of – something we fall in and out of. It is bigger. It is a virtue and way of being that we have barely begun to mine. People who have turned the world on its axis through history have called humanity to love. It is not a private good. It is time we dare this more bravely – dare to learn how love can be practical, creative and sustain us for the public good – the common good.
– Krista Tippet, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and
Art of Living
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Music: Frances Luke Accord
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Frances Luke Accord
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