Spirit Alive Year End Party

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This Saturday June 2, 2018

Dear Friends,

Please mark you calendars now –you are invited to our home on Saturday, June 2, 2018. Lucy Burke will provide the leadership .

Please come at the regular time of 10:00 to noon for the Spirit Alive program and then stay for potluck lunch into the afternoon. It is a true potluck so you may bring whatever you would like to share.

Ross and Bea Lawford
for information call: 416-421-1135

 

NOTES FROM LUCY:

Spirit Alive – Saturday, June 2, 2018 – Summer Year-End Party – All Welcome!

Led by Lucy Burke, meeting at the home of Bea and Ross Lawford.In this Spirit Alive session, led by Lucy Burke, we lean with delight into Nature’s Summer treasures, and we will consider some of the thoughts of Henry David Thoreau, celebrated naturalist, social activist, writer and philosopher. A United Church Observer article, this past February, celebrated Thoreau and his iconic book on Walden Pond, describing him as having a poet’s soul and a scientist’s eye, and as one who urged his readers to live simply, intentionally, and in harmony with Nature. (Read the article here –  “Visiting Walden Pond”.  What might living simply and intentionally mean for you? Does Thoreau’s admonition to “live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment” resonate with you? What do you think of Thoreau’s equally famous friend Emerson’s words, quoted in the Observer article? “Make your own Bible,” he wrote. “Select and collect those words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” (Please bring any of your own thoughts on these to share with us!)Come at the regular time of 10:00 to 12 noon for the Spirit Alive program, and then, if you can, stay for potluck lunch into the afternoon. It is a true potluck, so you may bring whatever you would like to share.