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Archive for April, 2023

April 30, 2023 – Turning Point Representatives Jennifer Losa & Ray Phillips From The Turning Point Center of Rutland

Posted by Tim on April 30, 2023

This is about a non-profit recovery center that provides a safe, friendly, fun, and substance free environment. All people in recovery, and their family and friends, can meet here for recovery support, meetings, social activities, recovery coaching, education, and advocacy. The Turning Point Center respects all paths to recovery.

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April 23, 2023 – Rebecca Mattis – “Eternal Life”

Posted by Tim on April 23, 2023

This is a combination Easter/Earth Day sermon that Rebecca wrote for a congregation in Austin, TX. Rebecca wrestles with the spiritual wound that is climate change, considering themes of death and rebirth, despair and hope, freezing and fecundity, brevity and eternity. Human behavior causes environmental destruction, yet humans are part of and subject to nature. Is it too audacious to speak of redemption?

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April 16, 2023 – Meg Baker – On Mending

Posted by Tim on April 19, 2023

We live surrounded by textiles, and we live surrounded by wear and tear. Things come apart, from seams to hearts to communities. Bringing together threads of history, community, practicality and spirituality, we weave an interdependent web to help mend ourselves and our world.

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April 9 – Karen Neller – Rebirth and Renewal

Posted by Tim on April 11, 2023

“Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul/ and sings the song without the words/ and never stops at all” — poem by Emily Dickinson.  What are symbols of rebirth and renewal for you? Longer days? New leaves? Flowers? Recovering from an illness? Bring something if you like that serves as a reminder to you of hope and rebirth and renewal. 

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