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March 3, 2013
Fourteenth Sunday of
Via Creativa
seed planting...birthing...cosmogenesis...co-creativity... play...asthetic...possibility...art as meditation...imagination...discipline...
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
at
Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
Reflection by The Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt
Gathering Leaders
Set-up/Put-away: Dave Miller Greeter/Usher: Suzie Robertson Reader/Communion Assistant: John Petrosillo Offering Invitation: Scott Bowling
Community Hour: Potluck Supper (Everyone Welcome)
Co-Creating a Progressive Christian Spirituality
beyond Convention
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"This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert is everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don't want them to be blown away by what I do, I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in."
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Bobby McFerrin
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Community Retreat: March 8-10
Inspire...Integrate...Invigorate...Involve!
 | The Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt, our Pastor
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Our Pastor and Board are providing and planning for us an important retreat in Greenwell State Park in Hollywood, Maryland. The tone was set during our recent INvent-Co- Create Season. Now we will come together the weekend of Friday, March 8 until Sunday, March 10 early afternoon, to explore and share about our spiritual paths, the efforts that enrich us, and those practices that diminish our awareness of our own holiness. This process will help us discern how we're called to continue evolving together into the deep dreams and big hopes we have for our future. It will be fun and it will re-energize us for the journey. Cost of the weekend for lodging, food and materials is $125 per person and can be paid in installments, so long as the balance is paid before retreat weekend. The facility will be available after 2 PM on Friday, the 8th of March. Click here for more information about Greenwell State Park.
Contact Pastor Wayne if you wish to come and have not yet registered ( SchwandtW@aol.com). |
March Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
March 1 Tom Good birthday
March 5, 1938 Jean W. Dove birthday (d. 7/5/12)
March 12, 1932 Delores M. Van Steenburg birthday (d.1/8/01)
March 22, 2003 Jordan Michelle Riley birthday
March 24, 1960 Kim Hinken birthday
March 27, 2010 Joshua Braelon Lekberg Baptism
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 Food Bank Collection Help those in need by bringing to our Sunday gathering, an item or two for the local food bank when you can. Most welcome are pantry staples (tinned meat and fish, boxed pasta products, infant formula, etc.) and personal care products such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, disposable razors, bath/shower soap, deodorant, dish soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygiene products. Collection is ongoing every Sunday.
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THE ROAD IS SHAKY
by Erine Sedicum
The Road is Shaky
My mind does not know
where I am going... I wonder if it is fear that stops me from taking the risk... I know the course as I travel it in my dreams but my dreams get lost-- lost in paying bills, fixing cars, and day-to-day...
Just when you think I lost my dreams I look at the trees, sometimes only branches and I see me without the leaves... Before I know it there are leaves and I take the chance-- Sometimes I fail... It's very hard Sometimes I succeed... It's so...so scary as I know the risk, opening me to a--
A New Wonderful World...
The Road is Shaky... | Photo by Erine Sedicum
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Women's Spirituality Group March 5th
Our next meeting is March 5th at the home of Kathy Baker in Edgewater. Our focus will be on ways of connecting to the divine. Each meeting several topics about spirituality and women will be discussed, and a different form of meditation will be shared in order to learn about it and try it out. The group meets twice a month on a Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. |
New Book, New Place,
NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME!
Reading Group to begin discussing
Eat Pray Love on March 16th
The next meeting of the Reading Group will be at 11 a.m. on March 16th. We've decided to meet at a new place, the Starbucks in Barnes & Nobel at Harbour Place, Annapolis.
Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, is our new book.
We hope more people will join us. Let us know if you are interested. Remember, besides being an interesting learning experience, our book group is also a great opportunity just to be together! Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com. So, get your book and come join us!
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The Prayer of Thanksgiving
by Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
Today, I make my Sacrament of Thanksgiving.
I begin with the simple things of my days:
Fresh air to breathe,
Cool water to drink,
The taste of food,
The protection of houses and clothes,
The comforts of home.
For all these I make an act of Thanksgiving this day!
I bring to mind all the warmth of humankind that I have known:
My mother's arms,
The strength of my father
The playmates of my childhood,
The wonderful stories brought to me from the lives
Of many who talked of days gone by when fairies
And giants and all kinds of magic held sway;
The tears I have shed, the tears I have seen;
The excitement of laughter and the twinkle in the
Eye with its reminder that life is good.
For all these I make an act of Thanksgiving this day.
I finger one by one the messages of hope that awaited me at the crossroads:
The smile of approval from those who held in their hands the reins of my security;
The tightening of the grip in a simple handshake when I
Feared the step before me in darkness;
The whisper in my heart when the temptation was fiercest
And the claims of appetite were not to be denied;
The crucial word said, the simple sentence from an open
Page when my decision hung in the balance.
For all these I make an act of Thanksgiving this day.
I pass before me the main springs of my heritage:
The fruits of labors of countless generations who lived before me,
Without whom my own life would have no meaning;
The seers who saw visions and dreamed dreams;
The prophets who sensed a truth greater than the mind could grasp
And whose words would only find fulfillment
In the years which they would never see;
The workers whose sweat has watered the trees,
The leaves of which are for the healing of the nations;
The pilgrims who set their sails for lands beyond all horizons,
Whose courage made paths into new worlds and far off places;
The saviors whose blood was shed with a recklessness that only a
dream
Could inspire and God could command.
For all this I make an act of Thanksgiving this day.
I linger over the meaning of my own life and the commitment
To which I give the loyalty of my heart and mind:
The little purposes in which I have shared my loves,
My desires, my gifts;
The restlessness which bottoms all I do with its stark insistence
That I have never done my best, I have never dared
To reach for the highest;
The big hope that never quite deserts me, that I and my kind
Will study war no more, that love and tenderness and all the
Inner graces of Almighty affection will cover the life of the
Children of God as the waters cover the sea.
All these and more than mind can think and heart can feel,
I make as my sacrament of Thanksgiving to Thee,
Our Father, in humbleness of mind and simplicity of heart.
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