June 20-30, 2021

Beginning of Summer
Coruscation - the occurrence of a small flash or spark. glitter, sparkle. flash - a sudden intense burst of radiant energy. p. 81 The Great Omission by Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard: "As a minister and a Christian, I do not have to "make it happen." I have to speak the Word and live in the Kingdom, and let the results take care of themselves."

Friends are the flowers in the
Garden of Life
Hebrews 6:19 Hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil
 Valerie Lorimer Contemporary Arts
Jetty Jumps and dives with Ken, Mads, and Harrison
 
Kristen and family visiting. YAY!
"Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. ~ Hebrews 4:16
Mom and I finally got in the water at Whalen's Wharf! Yay!!
Now it's been three times in 10 days. So very grateful and blessed.
"Overview: 1-3 John" - BibleProject video here
Psalm 16:8, “I keep the Lord always before me.”
Quality reminders throughout the Bible such as
Reminders in 1-3 John like: "God is Light and Love" BibleProject video
"Trust in You" by Lauren Daigle Click here to listen
Unction: the action of anointing someone with oil or ointment as a religious rite or as a symbol of investiture as a monarch
Vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. wikipedia
"What if it knew you by your name? What kind of words would cut / Through the clutter of the Whirlwinds of these days?" The Killers - "My Own Soul’s Warning"
EXodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD ...
Your God... For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Zechariah 13:9 "This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold...


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June 14-20, 2021

"Asclepiamania" Thanks for sharing, Heather
Beautiful photo above taken by Heather Laidlaw, and Below...
Captured by Sue Gager Palmer, June 14, 2021
Eternal Life t-shirts arrived just in time for...

 photo shared by MandyLou Sullivan
Happy Father's Day one and all
"It Is Well - Kristene DiMarco | You Make Me Brave" listen here. perfect timing. Thank you, Fain xo
"Jesus was and is the replacement sacrifice...the final word on God's loving and good character" listen here
Ken's Birthday greeting
Lifepointe 6/20/21 main idea: "Faith is acting in confident trust un God's character" listen/watch here
"Million Little Miracles | Elevation Worship & Maverick City" listen here
 thank you for sharing this song, Heather
New word this week, thanks to Sue Palmer. See "P" below and click here for her cool Facebook post
"Overview: Philemon" BibleProject on YouTube
Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters – being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore – in contrast with demersal fish that do live on or near the bottom, and reef fish that are associated with coral reefs. Wikipedia
Quartz for cooling clarity given as a gift from All Souls, along with this beautiful image and prayer
  Jess.Marie Instagram
"Saved by Grace" t-shirt by Eternal Life Co.
"Trust in You" by Lauren Daigle listen here to this great reminder
United with church family AND some biological family family I've not seen in 3 years!
Vital to the earlier generations of monarch butterflies
eXtremely personal and never private (implications of the good news of Jesus) Bible Project video
Yoga "Afterglow" feels similar. Heard this song on way home from Ken's class last week.
Z is a stretch, but if you click here to listen the music and feel these lyrics, you'll forgive me :)
Stop the clocks it’s amaZing
You should see the way the light dances off your hair
A million colours of haZel, golden and red
Saturday morning is fading
The sun’s reflected by the coffee in your hand
My eyes are caught in your gaZe all over again...

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Recent All Souls New London Services recap/highlights

"Before me sits the suffering" Carolyn quoted a professor who taught her
Capacity to grow and come close to what it means to be holy.
Difference between trauma informed ministry, and informing people of trauma
"Every mind was made for growth" Channing
Faith Formation Sunday 2021 - All Souls New London - June 13, 2021
Give them, not hell, but hope and courage. Do not push them deeper into their theological despair, but preach the kindness and everlasting love of God...Give them and yourself gentle tools for harsh times.
"Humanity is both sublime, and ridiculous!" ~ Carolyn
"I am from those moments -- snapped before I budded -- leaf-fall from the family tree." ~ George Lyon
Jesus was mentioned, but in a confusing way, so I prayed and asked for clarity. That clarity was given thusly: "by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace." ~ Ephesians 2:15
Launching point for intellectual and spiritual curiosity... Love will guide us....
Mortality, Morality, Meaning
New member ceremony  May 1, 2021
Ordination of Ann Kadlecek All Souls New London June 6, 2021
Perry Montrose : Director of Faith Formation
"Questions and curiosity and love" ~ Rev. Douglas Taylor
"Run to the Father"
Thread - Theology about what it means to be human - This is what our congregations are for...
Unitarian Universalists
Video can be found here on YouTube
"Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon
eXample: "What does God sound like my oldest child once asked me it is always a delight to get a question like that from a child so of course I dragged my then five-year-old child outside and sat them in the grass and I said "listen" what do you hear? wind... chirping... silence stretched as we listened. "I hear insects buzzing... so "God sounds like nature"
"Yes, I replied but is there anything else you hear? "Well, the cars out on the road and you and me talking." I grinned Yes all of that, everything..."
 I did not attend, but isn't this a lovely slide?

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June 12, 2021 - pulling the threads of this week's treasures together - June 13, 2021

"And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." ~ T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding"
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." John 14:26
"Celebrate this walk / through long days / this chance to...
"...Do it differently, to revel in slowness while light lingers just a bit longer." ~ Heidi Barr, 2020
Elderberry in bloom at Ledyard Street FRESH garden

 Thank you, Kelly xo miss you too xo
 Ecclesiastes 3:11 and Mary Wangerin

 Thank you, Ken

John 14:26
Ken's yoga Friday PM and ...
Listened to this song for the first time this week, thanks to Heather Black
"Million Little Miracles" | Elevation Worship & Maverick City - listen and WATCH by clicking here
 New London Harbor, June 10, 2021 
"Our spirit is where we receive God's life. Our soul we experience God's life. Our body is where we express that life." Found written a journal dated 4/10/19 click here for source closest to quote
"...Pull weeds, line-dry clothes, make jam, walk to the mailbox. There is much to savor in slowness, when quality of attention allows noticing each detail - intimacy with soil soft flutters of well-worn shirts / hands and berries creating together grass getting dewy in moonlight. ~ Heidi Barr
Quote: last sentence of The Untethered Soul: "And if God is in ecstasy, I wonder what he sees when He looks at you." p. 181
"...Rhythms of ritual, in ceremony of the holy ordinary." ~ Heidi Barr
"Stillness is vital to the world of the soul. If as you age you become more still, you will discover that Stillness can be a great companion" ~ John O'Donohue
"The fragments of your life will have time to
Unify, and the places where your soul-shelter is wounded or broken will have time to knit and heal." ~ John O'Donohue
Wonderful gifts of the Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Awe (Fear of the Lord) Isaiah 11:2
eXist, eXpand, eXperience
"You will be able to return to yourself. In this stillness, you will engage your soul. Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically, they do not know themselves at all. Aging can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time."
Zinnia Public Library of New London


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May 30 through June 6, 2021

"And the rain, rain, rain, came down, down, down in rushing, rising riv'lets 'Til the river crept out of its bed. And crept right into Piglet's Poor Piglet's" ~ A.A. Milne 
Beautiful Blooms
Clouds and Coffee at sunrise

Dancing seeds for three seed tea (see "T" below)
Early morning Energy
Family and Friends
Gardening, Groceries, and Growing in Grace
Hummingbirds, Honeysuckle, and House plant care
Iris in the All Souls UU Peace Garden
Jurassic Park snark: an oldie but goodie - and some amazing quotes too!! See "U" an a link below
Kitten in windows and soon in our home? Maybe, maybe in a few months, we shall see...
Long lovely walks with Misty and this song "Let There Be Peace on Earth" Listen here
Memorial Day weekend, Much rain, but... More flowers, Morning, GLORY indeed!
New Neighbor conversations and connections
Ordination of Ann Kadlecek - All Souls New London - June 6, 2021 
"Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all..."
Questions, answers, and more Quotes from Jurassic Park here
Raindrops on Roses, and Iris, and sap on new pine cones...
Sweet Scents of lilac, honeysuckle, and berry blooms enveloping us as we walk...
Three Seed Tea for gut health, proper digestion, and so much more (learn more here)
“Um, I’ll Tell You The Problem With The Scientific Power That You’re Using Here. It Didn’t Require Any Discipline To Attain It.” ~ Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
Video of Memorial Day Service :"Speak Peace: You Have A Voice" click here
 May 30, 2021
"X is for... X-ray tech ;) 
"Yet today I call you to my riverside / If you will study war no more. Come, Clad in peace, and I will sing the songs / The Creator gave to me when I and the Tree and the rock were one / Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your Brow and when you yet knew you still / Knew nothing / The River sang and sings on." ~ Maya Angelou
 I got to be in the children's area for my library shift. Yay!


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Steady Me, Steady Me...

 "Anchor" by Skillet listen here New London, CT
"Body is weak but I'm trying / To make it to shore, but I'm falling short / I need You more..."
"Come steady me, steady me now / When I get tired of finding / All of the fears I've been hiding / You gave me a breath, and tell me to rest..."
"Didn't I tell you / Do not leave me / for I am your only Friend, I am the spring of life...
"Even if you leave for thousands of years You will come back to me for I am your goal and your end. Didn’t I tell you / not to be seduced / by this colorful world...
"For I am the Ultimate Painter. Didn’t I tell you / you are a Fish / do not go to dry land for I am the deep Sea....

Didn’t I tell you
not to fall in the net like birds
for I am your wings and
the power of light.

Didn’t I tell you
not to let them change your mind
and turn you to ice
for I am your fire and warmth.

Didn’t I tell you
they will corrupt you
and make you forget that
I am the Spring of all virtues.

Didn’t I tell you 
not to question my actions
for everything falls into order,
I am the Creator.

Didn’t I tell you
your heart can guide you home
because it knows that
I am your Master.- Rumi - listen and watch here: 
"Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains" so good - listen here
Hold on to Me by Lauren Daigle listen here
 listen here
"Jump into your life With you whole heart, trusting that you will FLY to God!" ~ cristi christensen
cristi christensen
"Keep holding on 'Cause you know we'll make it through ... Just stay strong / 'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you / There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do There's no other way when it comes to the truth" ~ Avril Lavigne
Long, Lovely walks and Laundry - both are important for balance :)
Misty has Meds for the treatment of Lyme disease now, and is doing so much better  
"Nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus’s expense and have Nothing more to do with him." 
"Opening Our Lives to the Spirit" p. 41 Chapter 4 The Great Omission by Dallas Willard
Paraclete means advocate or helper. In Christianity, the term "paraclete" most commonly refers to the Holy Spirit as advocate or counselor (John 14:16, 26)
Quarantine Kids music is such a joy! click here for one of the earliest videos
Rumi, the 13th-century mystic poet, was truly one of the most passionate and profound poets in history... his presence remains strong, due in part to how his words seem to drip of the divine, and startle a profound remembrance that links all back to the Soul-Essence.  source
So Steady me, Steady me now
"Then he invites us to follow him into his practices, such as solitude, silence, study, service, worship, etc.—we call them “spiritual disciplines.” ~ p. 36 Chapter 3 The Great Omission by Dallas Willard
"you are an Unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in god's great universe" ~ Dallas Willard
"Voices Learning From Others" John Mark Comer listen here
"We are to add virtue to our faith, knowledge to our virtue, self-control to our knowledge, patience to our self-control, godlikeness to our patience, brotherly love to our godlikeness, and agape to our brotherly love (2 Peter 1:5–7)
"...eXpect him to move in our circumstances and are attentive to his actions..." ~ Dallas Willard
You are my anchor / You're keeping my feet on the ground... You are my anchor / So steady me, steady me now
Zenith stretch by a creative minority to keep the wider culture healthy and alive : "What if [creative minorities] knew that truth and power have nothing to do with one another and that you do not need to rule the world to bring truth into the world?" source, and link to more here
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