Small Groups

Holy Week Inhabiting

April 13, 2022
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We are touched by the same oil Inhale the same fragrance. Your life, my life, Your death, my death.

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Palm Sunday: a Prayer, A Poem, A Practice

April 1, 2022
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A Palm Sunday Prayer Holy OneYou ride through this lifeon the bony back of our stories,on the spread of our hopes You do not shun the confusion of our longingsor the brevity of our commitments.You meet us in the midst of themand by your Presence gather us closeand make us the more that we are.…

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November Table Church -Thresholds & Thin Places

November 13, 2020
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Sometimes something shivers us — a sunset, a single wildflower, a child playing in the park or in the street, a thousand scenes, a thousand times. That shiver is awe, wonder, a primal feeling, a sense of overwhelming meaning and mystery at the same time.    Ted Loder in Loaves, Fishes and Leftovers   All through…

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October Table Church

October 2, 2020
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“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” ― Meister Eckhart For this first series of Table Church gatherings we’re focusing on the ‘flavour’ of each month.  In September it was “beginning”, in October “thanksgiving”.  Don’t worry, I know that many of us might feel thanksgiving is too much to ask right…

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Table Church ~ Beginning

September 30, 2020
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Always, we begin again. Benedict When I was imagining how the frame of these gatherings might be built, I thought of the flavour I taste in each month.  In September, even though I’ve been out of school for a while, I still taste beginnings.  The fall crisp gives me an energy boost and I am…

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What’s Table Church and Why

September 30, 2020
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Why Table Church? To be vital in our living and our dying as individuals and as congregations we need to practice our faith close to the ground, in the ordinary doings of day to day life.  The table is one of those places.

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Giving

May 5, 2020
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I love this tiny hand touching the heart of things. I can almost imagine the pavement softening touched by these fingers. It made me think of how the walls of congregations have become more porous in these pandemic times.

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The Hollow in our Hearts

April 15, 2019
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Here we are on the edge of Holy Week.  The parade is over; spent petals and tattered banners still blow down the empty streets.  Some have stuck their palm fronds in the planters round the lamp posts. Some have forgotten their coats and there is a tiny sneaker on the curb.  The air has caught…

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Broken-open community

May 28, 2017
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  As I reflected on the heft of my heart, sitting in a room with so many others, each of us on our own journey, our paths mingling and diverging, I felt the strength of brokenness. 

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Epiphany Invocation

January 7, 2017
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 O shimmering O dayspring O light on the snow

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Prayer for Beginning a Meeting

March 15, 2015
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Holy One, We come, each carrying our own story our own vision our own hopes and our own purpose all to be threaded into the great story that is Your life with ours

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