an original blessing community
August 15, 2014
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eNewsletter from
Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community
Christianity Beyond Convention
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Our Business Sponsors
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Chuck makes a
donation to Evolve
Chesapeake from every commission received through our community!
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Check out Evolve Chesapeake's online bookstore at:
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Join our Sacred Gathering on Sundays normally at 6 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting House, 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, MD 21401. Click here for directions.
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August 17, 2014
Annapolis Friends Meeting House
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, MD
Reflection by Beth Lanier
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Stewart
Greeter/Usher: Tom Good and Rick Dove
Reader: John Petrosillo
Offering Invitation: Dave Miller
Community Hour Host: Dave Miller
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to see and hear (and almost smell!)
a nature video slide show by Rick Dove
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Creation Spirituality Communities is a network of communities ranging from intentional groups to alternative churches, which are grounded in the tenents of Creation Spirituality and revere the sacredness of all creation. Through study, ritual, celebration and action, these communities support justice, compassion, transforma- tion and sustainability for the Universe and for all living beings. It is both tradition and movement, celebrated by mystics and agents of social change from every age and culture. Join our online community, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community, and read more about Creation Spirituality, discover inspiring opportunities, learn about CS communities in your area, or network with others to create a CS community. Click on:
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From Erine
The Silent Voice
It talks to you in your sleep
In the back of your mind
It screams things you don't-
Don't want to hear...
Sometimes you listen
Yet you know they lie
You are loved...
Coming from someone
Who has heard-
Heard it many times,
Suicide is never an option
Thinking about everyone-
Everyone that loves you is...
In memory of Robin Williams
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One day
you will learn
how to give and receive love
like an open window
and it will feel like summer
every day.
- from "We Are Humanity"
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PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
JOIN A COALITION OF OVER 700 ORGANIZATIONS IN NYC BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE SUMMIT
In September world leaders are coming to New York City for a historic United Nations summit on climate change. With our future on the line and the whole world watching, we'll take a stand to bend the course of history. Together we'll take to the streets to demand a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. A world with jobs, clean air and healthy communities for all. A world safe from the ravages of climate change. Join over 250,000 people and 700 organizations marching together to reignite the environmental movement. See the website: peoplesclimatemarch.org
The Climate Stewards of Greater Annapolis are arranging for a bus. Cost will be $40. For more details or to sign up, contact Dave Ingalls at benfieldbrass@juno.com or Beth Vernon at saramara@live.com. The bus will leave from Annapolis Friends Meeting House, 351 Dubois Road in Annapolis, Maryland at 6:00 AM and return that evening. You can also call Liz Vanden Heuvel at 410-267-9009 for more information.
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August 17th is "Toothpaste Sunday"
Please support the food bank if you can. It doesn't have to be tooth- paste, but by bringing along a food staple or personal care product when you come to Sacred Gathering, it is a big help and much appreciated.
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CHANT CIRCLE ON AUGUST 24 
Would you like to learn some prayerful chants? Come join our Chant Circle on Sunday, August 24 from 4 to 5 PM for an experience of body prayer, chant and drumming.
"The gift of body prayer for me is that we sit with each one long enough to enter into the Presence together. Calming ourselves is one of the goals so that we can experience that thin place of Divine-Me connection or, in less binary thought, I can become aware of the Divine Presence which flows from within me and encircles me." - Pastor Wayne
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Check out the books and photo cards.
On our Welcome Table in the lobby there are books for sale by Bruce Chilton, Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg and others. You'll also find Rick Dove's large selection of nature photography. The photo at the bottom of the newsletter is a sample of Rick's
beautiful work. And enjoy his video clip of "The Awe and Wonder in Our World" below. (Rick's 5 x 7 photo cards are @ $3 and his matted photographs are @ $10.)
Your used cell phones and empty ink jet and toner cartridges can also help fund our ministry. These items fit nicely in the offering basket along with remembrance of time and talent you have offered to our ministries and your financial gifts. Bring them to Gathering with you.
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August Covenant Dates
Birthdays, Anniversaries, Covenant Dates
August 1 Louise Birch Abell Birthday (d. 2001)
August 4 Brian Patrick Riley Birthday
August 7 Christina Borgoyn Birthday
August 7 George H. Kresslein, Sr. Death (1997)
August 10 Robert T. Abell & Michael P. Dyson Holy Union (2002)
August 11 Janet Bullitt Smith Death (2002)
August 14 Ralph Ferrante Birthday (d. 2003)
August 19 Velma Blitch Death (1999)
August 27 Louise Birch Abell Death(2001)
August 27 Janet Bullitt Smith Birthday (d. 2002)
August 29 John A. Petrosillo Birthday
August 30 David A. Miller Birthday
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 Robin Williams, 1951-2014
(photo from Wikipedia)
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Thanks to all who are reading our newsletter and all who send contributions that liven it up! Send your poems, articles, photographs, news, announcements, etc. by Thursday to: EvolveSylvia@gmail.com. Your ideas on how we can improve Originally Blessed!! are also always very welcome.
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Photo by Rick Dove
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