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Sunday Gathering
July 28 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Unfolding – Nature Does What It Does
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Core Teacher: Ruth Zwald makes her home on a farm, starting every dawn with good coffee and the crow of the rooster. She watches the moon and never misses a solstice or equinox turning. Ruth is a Mesa Carrier on the Peruvian Medicine Path, which involves personal healing, transformational healing for others, and creating ceremony and ritual for ourselves and for the earth.
Musician: Mike Ward’s songwriting echoes through empty city streets, back country roads and family portraits. It also resides in the hidden spaces between joy and tragedy, love and loss. He brings a unique perspective to his songwriting after working 40 years in the advertising industry while continuing a lifelong passion for hockey, which resulted in his nickname “PsychoWard.”
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Music: Mike Ward
Gathering Host: Nelleke Knarr
Music: Mike Ward
Meditation: Leslie Newman
Moment of Silence/’;=[-
Readings/Teaching: Ruth Zwald
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
…it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
Restoration is imperative for healing the earth, but reciprocity is imperative for long-lasting, successful restoration. Nature herself is a moving target, especially in an era of rapid climate change. We’re not in control. What we are in control of is our relationship to the earth.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Music: Mike Ward
Gathering Host: Nelleke Knarr
Music: Mike Ward
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