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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-08-18T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-18T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

August 18 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us!

We gather in person every Sunday at Central Park Place.

All events held in the Mackinaw Ballroom in Central Park Place (421 Columbus Ave., GH)

Sunday’s Schedule:

9am Pre-Talk:

Meet the morning’s teacher in a small group setting for an open discussion of the morning’s theme

10am Gathering:

Welcome, readings, meditation from a community member, teaching, and music

11am Talk Back:

A chance to share questions, comments and stories related to the morning gathering

C3 Kids:

Each week we provide a safe and welcoming environment for kids starting at 10am. If you are looking for a Sunday morning experience for your kids that includes C3 Values, creative activities, toys, books, games and outdoor fun (when weather permits), we are here to make it happen! Miss Mary is happy to be spending time with your kids!

Sunday’s Program and Reading

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Riding the Wave: Seeking Balance

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Guest Teacher: Rev. Miriam Bush is semi-retired, but continues to offer Spiritual Direction and leads various opportunities to pay attention to one’s life journey. She has been in ministry for 39 years serving as pastor, spiritual care coordinator at LifeCircles, and retreat leader. She has three grown children, three grandchildren, lives in the woods, and kayaks as often as possible.

Musician: Josh Rose, teacher and song craftsman, has spent the past ten years touring the Midwest, teaching, writing, and creating a rich body of work. He is the type of writer who labors over every word and wants his song to be injected into the listener’s permanent being. His works are plucked from the air, like lightning bugs destined for an old Mason jar, polished like the ancient stones in the Flat River.

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Music: Josh Rose

Gathering Host: Chrys Moelter-Gray

Music: Josh Rose

Meditation: Wayne Johnson

Moment of Silence

Readings/Teaching: Miriam Bush

I’ve decided to make up my mind about nothing, to assume the water mask, to finish my life disguised as a creek, an eddy, joining at night the full, sweet flow, to absorb the sky, to swallow the heat and cold, the moon and the stars, to swallow myself in ceaseless flow.

– Jim Harrison, Cabin Poem (from Pause for Beauty/ Heron

Dance)

Wisdom is the art of balancing the known with the unknown, the suffering with the joy; it is a way of linking the whole of life together in a new and deeper unity …

Wisdom is the art of living in rhythm with your soul, your life, and the divine.

— John O’Donohue, Anam Cara

…We are urged to be clever and successful and always in control. But this practice asks us to relinquish the illusion of control and to be content with whatever comes our way. This seems so strange and different from the usual way. But it is the way of life itself.

Tao TeChing – Chapter 20 (“A Path and a Practice,” William Martin translation)

Music: Josh Rose

Gathering Host: Chrys Moelter-Gray

Music: Josh Rose

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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