Transcript for January 29, 2012 by Bob Kleinheksel Let it be this moment that all gathered feel and invite the synergy of soul, senses and body; that all would be and feel welcome, softened by grace and connection - knowing ...
Transcript for January 15, 2012 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather again, knowing and bringing the beauty and quandaries of our bodies. Now, individuals, bodies together....warm, throbbing blood, hearts beating, head colds, runny noses, picture- perfect health, joint ailments and cares. ...
Transcript for January 8, 2012 by Bob Kleinheksel Welcome now to this place of comfort and provocation; to this place of ease and intrigue. For today there is new growth and changing of minds. Today there is interest in ...
Transcript for December 18, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel We live with the hope of spring and the melancholy of winter. We face simplified landscape and trees and the complications of inner turmoil. So too do we now gather with a ...
Transcript for December 4, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Continue this day now with a new shred of confidence, for you are on the way with open eyes. Big eyes, big lives, big thoughts, big plans. This morning let us wake up, ...
Transcript for November 27, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Peace and gratitude be yours, to share, enjoy and celebrate. Peace that comes from a deep down knowing that we are not alone, that others around are pulling for us. Gratitude ...
Transcript for November 20, 2011 by Mary Ackerson The child in me greets the child in you. The child in me greets the child in you…..and weeps, weeps For what else is there to do? After the outrage and anger, the shock, ...
Transcript for November 6, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Within these sounds of silence stir our deepest thoughts, hopes and petty anxieties. Within these walls gathers a most human collection of men, women, children, visitors, veterans - all with hurts, needs ...
Transcript for October 30, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Welcome you all. Welcome to this chaplaincy and community of care with hospitable folk as well as challenges of new learning, more mature relating and responsible living. Gather now, side by ...
Transcript for October 23, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Harvest time, nature slowing and showing itself anew - whether in naked starkness or surprising, defiant color and beauty. Life all around, kamikaze squirrels with acorn buffet, raucus birds and animals scurrying ...
Transcript for October 16, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Morning blessings, courage and respect to each of you, for life is longing for our souls to take us where we need to go -no matter what the risk, beauty and delight. ...
Transcript for October 9, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Namaste and gentle greeting to each of you. Welcome, be at peace, be comforted and challenged now to be more of who you are and are yet becoming. Welcome you all ...
Transcript for October 2, 2011 by Mary Ackerson A Second Sunday, Our Second Sunday….the change a bit more real, first day jitters gone, we gather new memories ……new images adorn our journey…. A dewy–shoed procession down a slippery grass hill rising ...
Transcript for September 25, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Gathering now, we pause to reflect, to feel, to commit to thoughtful and mindful intention. As if setting beside a quiet pool and still waters, we wonder again about the ebb and flow ...
Transcript for September 11, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel You, we - are the new day. What say you to get busy living? Get busy welcoming, feeling deeply, remembering thoroughly, caring about the strength and importance of community. ...
Transcript for September 4, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel If you are out there, come on in and be at home. Be at peace in this late summer season full of transformation and transition; full of reflection and change. We ...
Transcript for August 28, 2011 by Cindy Anderson August ends And so end the long and lovely days of summer. The air cools The skies change The days shorten as Earth readies for her fabulous fall fashion show It is time It is time to ready as well. First ...
Transcript for August 21, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel We pause to welcome quiet thoughts, tenderness and tears and a new resolve around change. If music makes us cry, then let these tears be life-giving and received by our fellows. ...
Transcript for August 7, 2011 by Mary Ackerson August…Midsummer Seductive, Alluring, Alive Nature the Diva stomps for attention, bombards with sensation Life permeates, saturates Greenery flourishes – in driveway cracks and mossy shade, creeping up tree trunks, highways flanked by Queen Anne’s Lace, lily ...
Transcript for July 31, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel On the brink of August, we pause to breathe deeply, to re-affirm our place in the unfolding and creation of this community and, indeed, our living, expanding universe. You are welcome here; ...
Transcript for July 24, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Welcome again to the dawn of peace and peacemaking in this beautiful and troubled world we share. Welcome now to this community. Welcome you all: Those of you conflicted, those of ...
Transcript for July 17, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Fly and be free, people of life. Be present now. Pay attention….or doze if you wish. In the pain, there is much to gain. In the changes, we can ...
Transcript for July 10, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Let us be still and know that all will be well, that in all manner of things it will be well. Questions linger, deep emotions are felt, fresh anticipation percolates as this ...
Transcript for June 26, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Each of us here, a creative wonder; and each of us here welcome now in community – to breathe deeply, to be inspired, filled with life and learning. Each of us a ...
Transcript for June 19, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Come all into the ever widening circle - with outstretched arms to greet you, a firm handshake, a kiss of hospitality and affection. With laughter and conversation, with anxieties, feelings, honesty ...
Transcript for June 12, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel We breathe in these moments – noticing inhalation and expanding lungs. We breathe in peace and loving intention – deeply, longingly; we exhale justice and compassion to those around – giving our ...
Meditation for June 5, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Let me be open to you; let me be open to me – let us be open with and for each other as we gather on this full-brimmed day…this day full of late ...
Transcript for May 29, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel It is good and right we gather in an ever-widening and inclusive community: To be wanted, needed, appreciated; for the poor and discouraged to find treasure and comfort and for others to ...
Transcript for May 22, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel We pause, re-grouping and continuing as community. Indeed we are ordinary miracles, star gazers, the dreamers, co-creators of meaning. Here we are in the midst, in the stream of an exploding, evolving ...
Transcript for May 15, 2011 by Ian Lawton Quiet your mind, relax your body, soften your gaze, and feel your breath. In this moment you are grounded and peaceful, held in the embrace of love that is within, between, and all ...
Transcript for May 8, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Warming days welcome us more fully into once hesitant spring. And like a rose, spring blooms evidently now before us – calling us all out as seeds of possibility and growth. And ...
Transcript for May 1, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Warm and grateful welcome to all of you – for you are people on the way, on the move – choosing, determined, vacillating, thanking and thinking. You and we are enlivened, discouraged, sad, ...
Transcript for April 24, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Welcome all of you, visitors and veterans, men, women, children. Inspiration and encouragement is about to happen again! May springtime peace be evident in your thoughts all the way through your consistent ...
Transcript for April 17, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We break camp again this day. To live and love, to be as human as we can. Human, humus….of the earth –of mud and grass. Feet planted on good soil ...
Transcript for April 10, 2011 by Ian Lawton As the sounds of jazz soften, quiet your mind and bring your full attention to this moment. Begin with awareness; of your body, and your breath. Become as relaxed as possible knowing that ...
Transcript for March 27, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Love be our language, transforming, subverting our best laid plans; making us silly and wise. Love is here and all is well….love changing everything. Love letting us never be the same. ...
Transcript for March 20, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Words of wisdom come to us again: Whispered, shouted, known and intuited. Let it be. We arrive with anxieties and hopes, sadness and levity – knowing full well the heights and depths ...
Transcript for March 13, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel The Zydeco beat beckons us to lighten up! And on a day of Parties and passion, the day of carnivale, the celebration of the flesh - we gather again, opening ourselves up to ...
Transcript for March 6, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Take heart, all you people, for love was made for me and you. The scriptures written long ago declared it: True love casts out fear…..and God is love and we can never ...
Transcript for February 27, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel People of Life and love, lucky and luckiest people in the world….long-timers and visitors, the young, the elderly, birthday and anniversary people too, be at home and peace now. We gather as ...
Transcript for February 20, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel We face the rest of our lives this morning, we who are discouraged, invigorated, enthused, tired and lonely. We sit now, as long-timers and visitors, the divorcing and the re-connecting; as ...
Meditation Transcript for February 13, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Music and melodies round out our experiences this morning – guiding us to reflect and learn, to grow as enlightened stardust observing the emergence of all things. We celebrate 14 billion ...
Meditation for February 6, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel Let us find our way – into this new day. And let us give thanks to Life itself – this divine/fleshy and pervasive force advocating for itself – bidding all toward fuller life ...
Peace be with and within all who gather: Peace of the quiet winter; peace amidst the discomfort of cold and icy treachery; peace and hope of the sunlight gaining on darkness; peace found in strength of community. Deep peace ...
Transcript for January 23, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel What a time to be alive, this day –as with every day! Welcome all, brand new visitor and seasoned veteran. Welcome all, young child and cagey grandparent. Welcome all into ...
Transcript for January 16, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel For everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a rhythm and season for all things – and we join together now on the great wheel of life and living. Let it be ...
Transcript for January 9, 2011 by Bob Kleinheksel The year continues to dawn and unfold and it bids us out in the open….to live, to grow, to create balance, to learn, to laugh and to love with fewer conditions. Blazing ...
Transcript for January 2, 2011 by Wayne Johnson Centering on this moment, we breathe in. Life itself sustains us. With grateful hearts, we breathe out. Letting go of worry, anger, fear, letting go of scenarios, random thoughts that pull and distract. We ...
Transcript for December 26, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We let go of fear this day – at least as best we can-and affirm the expansiveness of Life itself and God in all our understandings. Our minds, often untrusted and restless, ...
Transcript for December 19, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Life Spirit of unfathomable depths and unapproachable heights, we gather on this blustery, chilling season of least light in winter darkness. Through mystery, and through moments both mundane and mesmerizing, might this ...
Transcript for December 12, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Make for yourselves an essential and merry little Christmas –all of you here and now. Be received into this exchanging community full of testimony of the importance of living well and fully. ...
Transcript for December 5, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Holy is this time. For all time is holy and sacred in its passage. The Spirit of Life and divine essence pervade the universe – from the farthest nebulae of stars trillions ...
Transcript for November 28, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Come all of you, now, here – to benefit from the warmth of community and bodies sitting side by side, front and back. May your hands be held, arms be around each ...
Transcript for November 21, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Be at peace all of you now in this gathering time. Breathe deeply, shrug your shoulders and let go of clenched hands or miserly spirit. Remember you are a child of ...
Transcript for November 14, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel The life-beat for learning, changing, remaining open and becoming goes on: the thrumming, the constant…both the regular and syncopated sounds guiding and filling our days. Let the beat be as sounds ...
Transcript for November 7, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Sitting and gathering now, we wonder and wait in a harvest season of hope and new possibilities: Hope for becoming more of who we are – more mature, more fulfilled, more loving ...
Transcript for October 31, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather in this place with fears dispelled and confidence gained. For we are people of the light and of the shadows –navigating this changing world using the reserves and strength within, between ...
People of C3, guests, visitors, long-timers and those on the edge: You are light and kindness, possibility and beauty enfleshed, the latest manifestation of the universe still in the making. Your uniqueness, talents, presence and leadership enhance this gathering. ...
Transcript for October 17, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We go and flow, move and grow in the ingenious and abundant spirit of Life, with God of all our understandings and Universal Presence: We honor the hum, the bounty, the purr of ...
Transcript for October 10, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel People of life, people of love – all of you who gather – it is time again to let go and take on in the fullness and challenge of these days. To wake ...
Transcript for October 3, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather again, you and me – individuals, couples, families – all beautiful and necessary – with exuberant yeses and important nos. Precious and able are we all: all ages, shapes and ...
Transcript for September 26, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Come, all of you, into this place of rest and comfort from broken wings; come all of you into this place of dangerous transformation and commitment; come all of you to this community ...
Transcript for September 19, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel (This prayer, in part, is inspired by the words of Ted Loder contained in Guerillas of Grace, Prayers for the Battle, LuraMedia, 1984) Gathering together, we affirm our blood-line connection with each other. Even ...
Transcript for September 12, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We pause and pray, we meditate and relax…in the presence of God as love, as experience, as intimate exchange, as celebration of self and neighbor, in mystery and in nature; We dwell in ...
Transcript for September 5, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We join together in a wider and wondrous community – with four-legged friends and other pets who round out our unique families and circles. The sights and sounds, animals and humanity ...
Transcript for August 29, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Gathering in community, we feel and bring our courage and fears, our emotions and numbness; our history and unrealized possibilities. What an amazing set of people – gathered here and now – ...
Transcript for August 22, 2010 by Mary Ackerson Sultry summer days beckon Lush…verdant…alive Calling…calling…calling, “Slow down, breathe in, rejoice, let go” We indulge in long dozy afternoons – reading, napping, dreaming. We gorge on summer gifts – salty corn butter dripping round the cob, ripe peach ...
Transcript for August 8, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel The mass meets this morning once again – a crossroads of gladness, of humanity – of cares and concerns. People with mixed motivations, histories, needs and hopes. Let us be grounded ...
Transcript for August 1, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel In our collective presence, we enjoy the intimate connections of being heard, known, welcomed and regarded. We affirm our varied orientations to each other and now invite a greater peace among us. ...
Transcript for July 25, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel “All for one, one for all” we often hear – blurted out by soldiers, colleagues, teammates. And these words echo today as we gather and sing, learn and grow, receive comfort and ...
Transcript for July 18, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We stand in solidarity with all that is and see today with new eyes what has always been: Beauty in every sunset and person; deep satisfaction with honest words and valiant hearts; ...
Transcript for July 11, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel As we pause in calmer moments, let us affirm the flickering flame, the spark of life part of our very being. Even now, let us imagine one shining candle within illuminating us ...
Transcript for July 4, 2010 by Ian Lawton Imagine. Just imagine. Divine imagination. Close your eyes and surrender to divine imagination that sees what eyes cannot see, hears what ears cannot hear and feels what bodies cannot feel. Surrender to divine ...
Transcript for June 27, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather surrounded by and instilled with the glory of the universe – aligned with the god of our understandings, buoyed by particular convictions and united by exploring common values. Life giving ...
Transcript for June 20, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather now in new awareness of our connections with all reality – as stardust and earth majesty gazing upon itself – considering itself in the cosmic mirror. We are carbon, water, iron ...
Transcript for June 13, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We gather in honor of the God experienced within as self-affirming people, manifestations and expressions of the universe in the making; we gather in honor of the God experienced between – in relating, ...
Transcript for June 6, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel How can we not get caught up with the heartbeat of life? The universal drums, rhythm, pervasive and eons-old thrumming? The four-four time beating within, causing us to tap fingers, toes ...
Transcript for May 23, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Welcome back, settle in and be at home – you people of Life, stardust creatures, infused with infinite and pervasive divine presence. This undeniable life force, that which keeps a heart beating ...
Transcript for May 16, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We join together in the Spirit of fire and freedom, a crucible’s chaos: for creativity and possibility are bubbling, brewing, about to burst forth again in beauty and bold design. In springtime newness ...
Transcript for May 9, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We are people on the way, not yet arrived – and we gather in determined diversity and undeniable unity, with distinctions and commonality both in this emerging inclusive community. For the same ...
Transcript for May 2, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel People of life, people of the stars, all you enthused with divine presence: deep peace and renewal of the lilac-scented spring to you; deep peace that comes through intimate, tender exchanges be upon ...
Transcript for April 25, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We affirm our connection to the humming, thrumming beat of Life, from the oozing mud to the distant stars; from the emerging hosta pushing through fresh mulch to the squawking bluejay high above. ...
Transcript for April 11, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Life spirit, intricately within us – with a spring-time pervasive life force, we are unified and yet differentiated as journey-mates on the way. With beautiful distinctions and profound commonalities, we join with ...
Transcript for April 4, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Resurrection and Easter prowess prowls across the landscape, through the intimacies of this community and coursing through nature’s DNA. The new life force, the primal spirit from the beginning urging iris and ...
Transcript for March 28, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Pausing now, let the vibrations of infinity, harmony and peace settle on us anew. May any exquisite confusion be centered into any new clarity for our time together. And at least ...
Transcript for March 21, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Right here, right now, we reside in the midst of strength, instilled and surrounded with love, in continuity with community on the way; connected in divine presence and with the god of many ...
Transcript for March 14, 2010 by Mary Ackerson I watched a boy dance this week – a “big” boy, a street-toughened, watching-out-for-my-little-sister kind of boy, dirt-smudged in tattered hand-me-down clothes and the wrong-sized shoes – a boy whose hazel eyes betray a ...
Transcript for March 7, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel In this ebbing winter stretch, the earth continues its tilt back toward new blue-sky horizons and radiant sunshine. We hurtle through frozen space, attended by vigilant stars. This pearly blue planet is ...
Transcript for February 28, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Dear people, born from the galaxy, citizens of life: you and we are the breath, voice and hands of the infinite. We get together again – individuals forming rich and diverse ...
Transcript for February 21, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We align ourselves more fully with love, with life, each other and the pervasive thrumming of the universe. This constant beating, the heartbeat of all life calls us, invites us, grounds us ...
Transcript for February 1010 by Bob Kleinheksel Ah, another day of parties and passions, the day of the carnivale, the celebration of the flesh –and partiality given to fat and excess. Let us dwell in revelry, song and dance, the ...
Transcript for February 7, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Pausing now, we affirm individual energies and uniqueness – all of us, each one here, wrapped in wonder and possessive of strength and beauty. We affirm our collective presence; that which is ...
Transcript for January 31, 2010 by Mary Ackerson When she seized control of Narnia, the White Witch made it Always Winter , Always Winter and Never Christmas. Can you imagine? Can you imagine… month after month, day after day, morning after morning, Everyday waking ...
Transcript for January 24, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Eternal and infinite life is ours now and continues in mystery, memory, in countless moments – in pain and beauty both. In the quiet of this morning, we affirm that we have always been ...
Transcript for January 17, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We realize our connection to all of life: The earth as our cradle, the stars and rains as blanket and beverage, deep roots in lush soil; ancient atoms -reused, recycled from generation ...
Transcript for January 10, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel We pause and sit in the stream of life, rooted, grounded – now unfolding, opening to the sound of silence. We are soft as cotton fluff; we are hardened like sun-baked roads. All ...
Transcript for January 3, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel Happy New Year to you all! On behalf of us all at C3, I wish you good beginnings, clear vision and anticipation of beautiful realities and states of mind -to be discovered, ...
Transcript for January 3, 2010 by Bob Kleinheksel All things and all people now inspire us as another year unfolds in an early winter stretch of storms and strains and now confounding cold and ice. All this stimulates and stymies ...
Transcript for December 27, 2009 By Bob Kleinheksel We shall continue to foot it - into the depths of winter. Goaded on by lengthening days, we journey side by side; we understand our shared stories and traditions step ...
Transcript for December 24, 2009 By Bob Kleinheksel Come, O come Emmanuel, Great Spirit of life, beauty and truth - dwelling in, between, around and beyond all we know. We gather again in this place, celebrating the birth of love ...
Transcript for December 20, 2009 By Bob Kleinheksel In the vast unknown and in this welcoming sanctuary space we join together in warm community; with the most familiar senses of self and assuring interpretations of the ultimate we gather. In intimate known-ness ...
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