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Daily Meditations can pick up your day
Hal Hurst
As I get through my hectic day, I find valuable tools for centering myself in the daily meditations from Fr. Richard
Rohr and Jim Wallis' Verse and Voice, which appear in my inbox daily.
Thirty seconds or a minute of contemplation while dealing with my email are the perfect antidote to ads pushing grey-market
drugs and penny stocks, to keep me focused on the things that really matter.
If you want to check these sites out, or sign up for your daily meditation, you can follow these links:
To Subscribe to Rohr's CAC "Daily Meditations" email list go to this link and check "Daily Meditations" To sign up for Sojourner's Verse and Voice follow this link and check "verse and voice."
September 2008:
We are moving into Fall, and in the afterglow of our retreat, many changes are in progress.
These people have agreed to take on extra responsibility in the next year:
Co-Chairs: Patricia Terry and Dan Wilson
Co-Chaplains: Wanda Arcos and Margy Harrell
Communications Committee: Laura Geisel, Hal Hurst, and Pat Wooley
Scribes: Patsy Brierley, Margy Harrell, and Diane Margrave
Treasurer: Laurie Dodson
We have added an evening meeting once a month on the second Tuesday, in order to allow better interaction on issues that
can't be covered in the limited time available on Sunday morning, and to allow members that can't make that time to get caught
up. This month's meeting will be at Margy's house- I'm not sure what the time will be. Check the calendar below
for updates.
A committee is working on rewriting and streamlining our mission statement, and the results will be presented at
at this meeting.
Check out more information concerning the business meeting by following this link
Coming soon will be information concerning political action in support of the millenium development goals by the California
Council of Churches, the Sierra Club, Peace Action, and the "Life After Oil" series to be presented by Holy Nativity Episcopal
Church in Westchester.
Hal
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February 10:
A Rule of Life for Our Community?
Hi All,
Several questions came up in today's meeting about a "Rule of Life". For example, one question that Dan raised
is how is it different from a mission statement? That is a very excellent question and I would like to expand upon what I
said at the meeting.
(For Patricia's letter and supplementary materials, including an example from Trinity Church, New York, click here.)
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For what it's worth:
Hal Hurst March 14, 2008
Living in the tragic gap: Activism in a democracy
In the March
7 edition of American Public Media's Word for Word, Parker Palmer's discussion on the workings of democracy, and how the Quakers came
to give up their slaves 40 years before the civil war, provides a lot of food for thought. In his example of consensual
decision making, he describes a Friend from New Jersey a couple hundred years ago.
This man received the revelation that slavery was unjust and unacceptable, and that he and all the Quakers should give up
their slaves immediately. He took his concerns to his local congregation, who were impressed by his reasoning and sincerity,
though unwilling to comply with his request. Rather than just write off his concerns, however, they agreed to keep
his issue in suspension, and support him and his family while he traveled to the various Friends congregations to discuss
his concerns. This he did for many years, and in the end the Society members were convinced, and all gave up their slaves
and even were instrumental in establishing the underground railroad. This discussion by Parker Palmer has immediate
application on the way we do and have been doing business in P&J, and on the difficult process of promoting change and
dealing with conflict within a democracy. I urge you to go to this link and hear this talk for yourself. http://wordforword.publicradio.org/programs/2008/03/07/
Hal
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