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The View from PUC Is AUGUST...In the Majestic/Inspiring Sense August 9, 2012 Deadline: Each Wednesday at noon Hi {FIRST_NAME|PUCer}, ...and so is THE VIEW from PUC ...Lots of ways to get inspired - and 9:30 AM 2nd Sunday Forum: plenty of things to fuel...or inspire...your PASSIONS. Here's all the A Humanist Perspective PUC news that fits in print...REEEEAAADD AALLL ABOOUUUT IT! 10:30 AM Service Moved by the Spirit * If you're having trouble reading The View in your email, Rev. John Morehouse click here to download the PDF version * Please send all VIEW submissions to [email protected] * Please send requests for a Sunday announcement to: 12 PM Adult RE Summit - Gary Hart [email protected] L 7 PM Meditation w/ Randy - H 7 PM Great Books Discussion Grp Through the Storms - No August Mtg This summer we drove through Yellowstone National Park. Driving along the lake, I was seized with a sudden urge to go swimming. “Pull the car over,” I asked Frances. “Where?” she Where Have All the asked. “Anywhere… by the shore. I… I need to go swimming.” So Flower(bringer)s Gone? we pulled off, I got down to my skivvies and jumped in the icy cold Is it Your Turn to Bring Flowers water. I thought my heart would stop. I came crashing to the surface on Sunday Morning?!?! and when my breath came back I yelled as loud as I could, “YES!” Plenty of dates are still God that water was cold! I climbed out, grabbed my clothes, dressed, available: and we were on our way again. “Odd decision,” my lovely wife said September 2, 9, 23, 30 to me. “Yes,” I agreed, “odd.” October 14, 21, 28 About an hour later as we neared the end of the lake, my cell November 18, 25 phone buzzed - we had been out of range. It was a message from my Please contact the PUC Office to brother: “Call me now.” We pulled over along the shore. I had just reserve yours! enough of a signal to get through. “Dad had a heart attack about an hour ago. While swimming in the pond. He’s in a coma. I need you Watercolors by Julius Schwartz here. Now.” I told him I was on my way. I would find an airport and invigorate PUC's Art Wall fly to home. I was on the phone for the next hour as we came out of through Sunday, August 12. Yellowstone and down the Eastern side of the Rockies into the rolling prairies of Wyoming, finally finding a flight out of Billings, MT, two UU Joke of the Week: UU Joke of the Week: hours to the north, that would connect me to the Twin Cities and onto Q: What do you call a dead New England. As we raced through the open prairie, my thoughts Unitarian Universalist? raced through a thousand memories, many of them having to do with A: All dressed up with no place to go. water. My father and I share a great love for water, he for the ponds and rivers of New England, me for the mighty oceans we spend our CLICK HERE for more hUUmor! lives near. Just then, as we were driving, a storm came upon us. Not one of those placid storms but a real drencher. A gully washer as they say. It rained buckets. Lighting and thunder. “Should we pull over?” asked Frances. “No”, I said, “we have to go through it.” Through the storm, 9/29, All Day. PUC Fall Sprucing with determination and passion. I was so glad she and Madeline Party - We’ll be conducting a PUC were with me, and with such calm, as the storm in my heart raged as campus-wide Fall Sprucing Party much as the skies around us. on Saturday, September 29. I caught my plane in Billings, and in Minneapolis, and then to We’ll spend the day cleaning up, Hartford. As I turned on my phone as we taxied to the gate, there was touching up, and just plain a message from my brother. My dad died while I was in the air, polishing up our campus and above the storm clouds. He simply slipped away. Later I realized facilities. It is a great opportunity to what had happened. I dove into that glacial lake in Yellowstone at get to know your fellow PUCers the moment that he had a heart attack swimming in pond in Mass. while helping make our home look Our hearts had passed through the storm. His heart was all done better. Details will be sent out now after 83 rich years. Mine still beating through the many more once we get closer to the date. storms before me. Any amount of time that you can My Dad died June 30, 2012. But he died the way he wanted to donate during the day will have a live. Swimming. Doing. Being the quietly passionate man he demonstrable impact. If there are was. Life is a series of storms we must all pass through. Life was specific areas of the campus or never meant to be always Sunny. Even here. Each of us must face specific items that you believe the thunder of change, the flash of betrayal, the dousing of hopes and need addressing during this dreams. As Thoreau once observed, there is only one way beyond Sprucing Party – contact John our struggles and that is through them. The point is that we don't Einhorn: have to go through them alone. This is the reason for our Church. I [email protected]/310-937- look forward to see all of you in the coming weeks. It is good to be 3134. home. With Grace and Grit, Upcoming Services —Rev. John August's Monthly Theme: [email protected] Passions 8/12: Moved by the Spirit TOBERMAN BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALE THIS Rev. John Morehouse SUNDAY AFTER CHURCH Rev. John explores what it takes THIS Sunday, August 12, the Voyagers (the Middle School-aged to be moved with spiritual passion kids) will be holding their annual Toberman back-to-school sale towards a better place in our lives. immediately after church! Please support this great service tradition; come prepared with cash to attend the RE store immediately after the 819: Stepping Boldly Through service. the Door Your contribution will pay for the school items that the kids will Rev. John Morehouse have purchased for Toberman families. This is a great annual event - Our journey into a deeper spiritual our kids find out which supplies are needed, scour the Sunday paper life is both a coming in and a going for the best sales, help their parents with the shopping, and then set out. Rev. John considers the tidal nature of our religious life. up shop from pricing to publicity to sales! Afterwards, they pack it up nature of our religious life. into backpacks and deliver the school supplies to some very grateful families. What a great lesson crossing business acumen with social 8/26: Dreaming Theology responsibility! Together Love, Rev. John Morehouse & Rev. Tamara Casanova Suzuki —Your PUC RE Committee Rev. John and Rev. Tamara share the pulpit in a sermonic dialogue on what their ministry GLBTQ Movie for August 2012: together this year might be. Imagine Me & You Please join us THIS Friday, August 10 at 7 PM in Recurring Events the PUC Library for our next GLBTQ Movie, Imagine Download the Latest Me & You. AdUUlt Programs Flyer HERE Sundays Rachel, a new bride, after catching a glimpsE of the Sunday Morning Forums, 9:30 AM, L florist at her wedding, finds she's tempted to leave her husband under 1st Sunday: A UU Exploration of Our Monthly Theme circumstances she never anticipated in this romantic comedy-drama, 2nd Sunday: A Humanist Perspective which stars Piper Perabo, Matthew Goode, Lena Headey, Darren 3rd Sunday: Spirituality and UU Boyd. Hope you can join us! 4th Sunday: [9 AM] 12 Months to a Compassionate Community: A reflection on The 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life 5th Sunday: Choices in a Jar Around the District and Beyond... —Delightful Dilemmas (4/29, 7/29, 9/30 & 12/30) Here's a great way to Stand On the Side of Love YRUU High School Group. 10:30 AM, L Half a Century Marrieds Group, 5th From Rochelle McAdam, President First UU Church Los Angeles: Sun., 12 noon, Fu Yuan Low "Hello, all. We need your support to help immigrants in detention. If Restaurant Singles-Family Brunch, 4th Sun., 12:30 you followed the news from General Assembly in Phoenix, you might PM, Offsite be pleased to take this moment to help a young man who has been Monthly Town Hall Mtg, 3rd Sun., H Great Books Discussion Grp, 7 PM, caught in the grip of arbitrary and ill-considered laws that are 2nd Sun., L Books in Our Lives Covenant Group, threatening to deport him and break up his family. 1st & 3rd Sun., 7 PM, L Narciso is married to a U.S. citizen and has 3 U.S. citizen children. Meditation Circle w/ Randy Goff, 7 PM, All but 1st Sun He was picked up for driving with an expired license. He has no other legal problems and only needs $750 to be released until his immigration hearing. His family has already raised the other $750 Mondays towards a bond of $1,500. Tai Chi (Pekich), Mondays, 9:30 AM, H Men's Ministry, 7 PM, V We have only until Sunday, August 12 when his bond hearing is Environmental Covenant Group, 1st Mon., 7:15 PM, L scheduled.
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