Winter Tapestry

Come learn about, meditate upon, and discuss the beautiful and venerable tapestry of many faiths that share and celebrate this winter season. Join us this Sunday, December 20 at 5:30 pm. Safe travels.

Darkness and Light

Sunday's Gathering will be a time of contemplative exploration and prayer as we focus on the gifts and challenges of Winter: The Season of Waiting. What can we learn from our dark and barren times? Where do we experience the Holy during seasons of waiting? What Light do we yearn for and seek? We will explore these and other themes during a time of contemplative meditation.

The Gathering is supplying spaghetti noodles for St. Paul Presbyterian's Christmas Food Mission. Please bring boxes of spaghetti noodles this Sunday.

Our New Logo

The Gathering joyfully celebrates our new logo. Many thanks to the Logo Workgroup for their creativity and hard work!

December 6--the theme is Advent, Yearning for the Light. Spread your light with us at 5:30 pm at Promenade Square.

Practicing Gratitude

The Gathering will center around contemplative meditation this Sunday. The theme is practicing gratitude for this gift called life. The offering will go to the Concho Valley Food Bank.

Day of the Dead Celebration

Bring photos of deceased loved ones, family, friends and pets. This Sunday the Gathering will celebrate the Day of the Dead. It's Mexican roots are anything but morbid:

The celebration of the Day of the Dead, which occurs on All Saints’ Eve at the beginning of November each year is a major commemorative ceremony throughout Mexico. Its purpose is to celebrate, remember and, as much as anything, to entertain the dead. Sometimes roads of flowers are put in place to guide the dead from the graveyard to the house where their relatives will have constructed an altar dedicated to the most recently deceased and made ready an array of sugary foods and drink.

The Mexican Day of the Dead is anything but sober and cheerless. It is an effervescent event, full of zest and colour, an annual opportunity to remember and re-engage with relatives and friends who have passed on.

Join us November 1st at 5:30 pm for worship.

The Path or Way

Theresa enlightened us on key aspects of Taoism. She read from the Tao Te Ching translated by William Martin. The path involves:

Universality
Embracing Opposites
Non-Resistance
Direct Experience
The Present Moment
Non-Coercion

The path is within you. During our discussion Karen Schmeltekopf noted The Psalms were written by Eastern peoples. They reflect many of the principles of Taoism.

Oneness Blessing this Sunday

On October 18th at 5:30 pm The Gathering will host the Oneness Blessing. Karen McGinnis and Alicia Lown will offer the blessing to those in attendance.

The Oneness Experience is shared by the Oneness Facilitator through gently placing their hands onto the head of the participant for about one minute.

Commonly, those receiving the Experience feel a sense of deep calm and inner peace, and throughout the following days or weeks report a greater stillness and clarity in their daily activities. Others report a simple sense of peace and a deeper level of connection with both themselves and others.

The sessions are very peaceful and meditative. All are welcome here. Those who appreciate silence, emptying, meditation, peace and healing are in for a treat.