August 30 Worship
Sermon by guest preacher Rev Canon Dan Weir
Worship
Reflections on ‘peacable’ as themes from Isaiah 11 & Romans 12
White Buffalo Teachings (excerpt)
— Chief Arvol Looking Horse
We need a great healing,
and we need a Great Forgiving.
But healing cannot begin without forgiveness.
We must forgive each other,
Forgive our loved ones,
Forgive our friends,
Forgive our enemies,
Forgive ourselves.
We need to pray even for a person who has done wrong!
In our Tiyospaye – our family — when two people fight they are made brothers or sisters.
Forgiveness itself is a powerful medicine.
We need forgiveness to create PEACE!
Mitakuye Oyasin! (all our relations) in the Great Circle of Life,
where there is no beginning and no end.
An Act of Faith: Peacable Kingdoms (Christies.com).
Learn about the life and art of Quaker artist Edward Hicks and his series of 62 paintings based on Isaiah 11 and descriptions of a world in which animal and creatures co-habitate peacably.
Wage Peace — Mary Oliver
Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.
Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
flower seeds,
clothes pins,
clean rivers.
Make soup.
Play music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries, imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.
Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious – Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Don’t wait another minute.
Songs about ‘Peacable’:
- Patti Smith’s Peacable Kingdom (art rock ballad)
- Rush’s Peacable Kingdom (blues/progressive rock)
- Adrian Belew’s Peacable Kingdom (progressive rock)
- Concordia Choir performing movements from composer Randall Thompson’s Peacable Kingdom (classical choral music)
Musings on Peacable as Possible
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one. — Thomas a Kempis
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. — Thomas Jefferson
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. — Joseph Addison
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. —Frederick Douglass
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the … peaceable have gone to the wall. — Elihu Root
Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceable assembly must remain sacrosanct. — Bryant McGill
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable. — Maximilien Robespierre
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. — John Ruskin
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called … ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable! — Mehmet Murat ildan
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect. — Thomas Jefferson
What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one. — Thomas Carlyle
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Peace of Wild Things
— Wendell Barry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Making Peace
— Denise Levertov
A voice from the dark called out,
“The poets must give us
imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar
imagination of disaster. Peace, not only
the absence of war.”
But peace, like a poem,
is not there ahead of itself,
can’t be imagined before it is made,
can’t be known except
in the words of its making,
grammar of justice,
syntax of mutual aid.
A feeling towards it,
dimly sensing a rhythm, is all we have
until we begin to utter its metaphors,
learning them as we speak.
A line of peace might appear
if we restructured the sentence our lives are making,
revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power,
questioned our needs, allowed
long pauses. . . .
A cadence of peace might balance its weight
on that different fulcrum; peace, a presence,
an energy field more intense than war,
might pulse then,
stanza by stanza into the world,
each act of living
one of its words, each word
a vibration of light—facets
of the forming crystal.
JCC and Around Town: MON, Aug 24 – SUN, Aug 30
Note: Rev Gail will be on vacation/”stay-cation” during the period Aug 20 – Aug 31 while her family visits. You may continue to email Rev Gail, especially in emergency, but responses and availability will be limited during this time. You may contact deacon Meg Phillips if any urgent needs arise.
MON, Aug 24
- 1pm Leaders in Training program is concluded for the summer. We will resume in September.
- 4pm Youth Choir & Band resumes on Mon, Aug 30. We are taking a break this week as band & choir members submit their recordings. Contact Billy Carleton for more info or if you have questions.
TUE, Aug 25
- Community Event: STORY by Believe in Books
9:30am • Believe in Books Livestream - STATEWIDE VIRTUAL CHOIR: Tenor & Bass Rehearsal
10am • Zoom (link available for choir member – RSVP by email to participate) 10am – Tenor & Bass - Community Event: FAMILY EXPLORATION PROGRAM – MAGNIFICANT MONARCHS
11am & 1pm • Nature Learning Center, Albany
To register for any session call 603-447-6991 or email us at info@tinmountain.org.- Please bring a mask for each participant.
- Suggested Donation $15/family for members and $25/ family for non-members. Scholarships available.
- Make a day of it and bring a picnic lunch. Each family (or families that prearrange to come together) will sign up for an 11am or 1pm start time and will travel between stations along the trail with a Tin Mountain staff member.
- And because each family group stays with the same instructor for the duration, programming can be tailored to and appropriate for any age!
- CLERGY LUNCH
12:30pm • Zoom
Local clergy gathering for meal and discussion. - Community Event: LIBRARY PICKUP/PRINTING HOURS
2-6pm • Jackson Public Library
You can place a hold –- online via your Koha account using your 14 digit library card number
- Contact by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org. or leave a voice message at 603-383-9731
- We will send you an email as soon as your item/s are ready for pickup. If you need to make special arrangements, please let us know, we want to help.
- Printing and scanning services are also available. Contact us for details.
WED, Aug 26
- Community Event: STORY by Believe in Books
9:30am • Believe in Books Livestream - Community Service: WAY STATION BOARD of DIRECTORS
9:45am • Zoom
Board meeting to discuss policies and programs. JCC volunteers attend as officers of board. - RING BELL
Noon • Jackson Community Church
THURS, Aug 27
- Community Event: YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA with Anjali Rose
**8am** • Zoom (Link provided once participants complete health waiver is sent to anjalirose15@gmail.com and registration/payment for class received.) See Anjali’s website for full list of classes offered and instructions to register. - Community Event: STORY by Believe in Books
9:30am • Believe in Books Livestream - STATEWIDE VIRTUAL CHOIR: Soprano & Alto Rehearsal
10am • Zoom (link available for choir member – RSVP by email to participate) 10am – Sopranos & Altos - Community Event: NATURALIST LED HIKES (Tin Mountain Conservation Center – Jackson Field Station)
10am • Jackson Field Station, Jackson, NH
Registration required: call 603-447-6991. Highlights include the summit of Tin Mountain, a tin mine on the property, and historic homestead, and a mountain pond. Tin Mountain’s naturalist will explain the historic use of the property, help identify plant species, and point out animal signs. These hikes are a great way to explore the lesser trod trails of the White Mountains and avoid the crowds. Participants of all ages a welcome. Reservations required – please call by the Wednesday prior at noon. Limited to 10 participants. Program fee of $5/person or $20/family; members free. More info: https://www.tinmountain.org/event/naturalist-led-hikes-8/ - RING BELL
Noon • Jackson Community Church - Community Event: LIBRARY PICKUP/PRINTING HOURS
2-6pm • Jackson Public Library
You can place a hold –- online via your Koha account using your 14 digit library card number
- Contact by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org. or leave a voice message at 603-383-9731
- We will send you an email as soon as your item/s are ready for pickup. If you need to make special arrangements, please let us know, we want to help.
- Printing and scanning services are also available. Contact us for details.
- Community Service: WAY STATION SHIFT
3pm • Curbside package preparation
5pm • Shift at curbside with guests - Community Event: CRAFTUP (Jackson Library)
4pm • Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/888091236
All crafts and all skill levels are welcome. - Community Event: WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL featuring GOD’s SLAVE (final in summer series) with guest speaker Marjorie Agosin.
7:30pm • Zoom 1) Contact organizer IN ADVANCE register. Please email: whitemountainjewishfilm@gmail.com
2) In advance, watch the film under discussion, GOD’S SLAVE. Available to rent on Amazon Prime for $4.99 HD, or click on “more options” for the $3.99 SD version. Here’s the link to God’s Slave on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Slave-Mohammed-Alkhaldi/dp/B00SNUT2YY The film’s running time is about 1:35 minutes. 3) Then look for followup email (once registered) that includes link to attend the Film Forum.
Additional info about Marjorie Agosin: poet, human rights activist, and literary critic. Marjorie Agosin is Professor of Spanish, at Wellesley College. Her diverse writing and teaching focuses on Jewish literature, women’s rights and human rights in Latin America, as well as migration, identity and ethnicity. Professor Agosin’s accomplishments are many — deeply tied to her love of her adopted home: Chile, and her commitment to social justice. The United Nations has honored Agosin for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. And in the United States, she has received the Letras de Oro, the Latino Literary Prize, and the Peabody Award, together with the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights. Here is a link to learn more about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Agos%C3%ADn and a sample of her books for adults and children which are available on Amazon:
A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile and I Lived on Butterfly Hill and Taking Root: Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin America (Ohio RIS Latin America Series Book 38)
FRI, Aug 28
- Community Event: STORY by Believe in Books
9:30am • Believe in Books Livestream - RING BELL
Noon • Jackson Community Church - JUDY FULLER’S MEMORIAL
3pm •Glen Cemetery, Glen, NH
Link to memorial website: https://judyfuller.alpynservices.com.
RSVP to the service: https://judyfuller.alpynservices.com/rsvp/
Rev Gail facilitates the gathering. From Judy’s Family: “We would like you to join us for a beautiful memorial service planned for Judy. It will be held at the Glen Cemetary in Glen, NH. This will be a casual, socially distanced, outdoor service, in order to accommodate all those who would like to attend. We would like an RSVP and also ask that everyone be considerate and please wear a mask.” They write: “About Judy… Judy was born on April 2, 1936 to Roger A. and Isabel M. Griffin, in Boston, MA. She was the first born of the 6 Griffin children, who’s births spanned 18 years. Being the oldest, Judy was relied upon to help care for her younger siblings, and as the only girl in the first 4, she quickly learned be very resourceful. Her Life… After graduating from college, she met and married the love of her life, in a ski club in Glen, NH. Together, Judy and Carl raised a family that she was most proud of, ran a successful small retail business, and she generously gave her time and energy to many organizations including Cranmore Mountain, the garden club, and the Meister Cup Race. Upon retiring to NH full time, Judy enjoyed their social life, playing golf with the ladies, and skiing with “the gang”. Together, Carl and Judy traveled all over the US and the World to visit with their many friends and family. They enjoyed life on their many trips to fish at Jones Pond, and the chores of daily retirement life, like making homemade maple syrup. Judy will be dearly missed by her family, close friends, and the many people that came to know her.”
SAT, Aug 29
- Community Event: LIBRARY PICKUP HOURS
10am-2pm • Jackson Public Library
You can place a hold- online via your Koha account using your 14 digit library card number
- Contact by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org. or leave a voice message at 603-383-9731
- We will send you an email as soon as your item/s are ready for pickup. If you need to make special arrangements, please let us know, we want to help.
- Printing and scanning services are also available. Contact us for details.
- RING BELL
Noon • Jackson Community Church - Private Event: WEDDING
Afternoon • Jackson Community Church
SUN, Aug 30
- INTERFAITH GATHERING (pavilion only)
8am • Pavilion **ONLY** this week and next week. No zoom in Rev Gail’s absence, group will be lay-led. Small group gathering outside at pavilion. Use social-distancing protocols: bring your own mask. Join us for poetry, prayer and reflection. - CHOIR PRACTICE
9am • Zoom link & password required. Contact church for more info. - IN-PERSON WORSHIP in SANCTUARY with GUEST PREACHER REV. CANON DAN WEIR
9:15am • Social-distancing & Masks REQUIRED
We will use only designated open pews only (2 out of 3 pews are roped off). Families (and quaran-team groups who have already been in close proximity) may sit together. We will avoid passing of peace, handshaking, hugs, etc. We also ask that you use hand sanitizer as you enter and wear your own mask throughout service. Worship will be streamlined with scripture, prayer and live music by Alan Labrie (if he’s able to arrive while worship is in session): no congregational singing. When worship ends, participants are asked to leave the church with social distance between each group; we will immediately be preparing for the next zoom-based 10:30am worship service. If you have any signs of illness such as fever, cough, congestion, stomach upset, you are courteously asked to remain home and take care of yourself. - VIRTUAL WORSHIP with GUEST PREACHER REV. CANON DAN WEIR (Zoom)
10:30am • Zoom link & password required. Contact church for more info.
Join us for worship, music, reflection, prayer, scripture. Stay for virtual coffee hour. Service will also be live-streamed to website and Facebook (if technology supports this function on the day of event). Afterward, recordings of worship service will be posted to Facebook, Vimeo.com channel & Youtube.com channel. - RING BELL
Noon • Jackson Community Church