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The Fellowship offers many opportunities and invitations to explore and practice the theme. We will be exploring the theme through out the month in worship and Religious Exploration.
April 5: “A Clash of Theologies: Redemption and Revenge” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
Is ours a theology of redemption or revenge? In this worship service, let us reflect on the theologies of both redemption and revenge we’ve inherited as we seek ways to embody our theology.
April 12: with the Earth Ministry Team
April 19: “The Possibility of Beauty” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
There remains the possibility of beauty, whether a storm has taken your home, an illness your beloved, a war the lives of whole communities. From the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to First Nations of the Americas, humans have told stories of this possibility. What must the heart do to prepare the way for such gifts? How can the soul practice embracing the possibility of beauty?
April 26: with Chaplain Michelle Leebens-Mack
Are you seeking more ways to explore this month’s theme?
Reflection Ideas and Questions
Consider reflecting on these quotes:
Hope [and possibility] locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcome.
– Rebecca Solnit
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work…
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings. – Wendell Berry
I still believe that we can overcome… When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ask what’s possible, not what’s wrong. Keep asking. – Margaret J. Wheatley
Some questions you may use as a prompt for conversation or for a journal entry follow:
- We all tell ourselves, “One day I will…” What “One day I will” sentence has been with you the longest? What would need to change for you to start turning that dream into a reality?
- Who helped you find your way back to possibility when all the doors in front of you felt closed? If you were to thank them, what would you say now that you didn’t or couldn’t back then?
- What have you learned about finding the possibilities that live on the other side of grief?
- What if we’re built to have many lives in this lifetime of ours? What if we become fully human by pursuing and becoming many of our possible selves, rather than just one of them?
- Are you sure it’s too late to do it, or become it?
