Announcements
Announcements
The Meeting passed a Minute supporting the Charter of Compassion last year. We will continue to discuss this project and how we feel about verbal violence.
Attached are the revelent documents: a description of the project, the Charter of Compassion, and an essay of concerns a Friend expressed when we passed it. Click on this link to see the documents provided for reading to prepare for the discussion.
Discussion at 7 p.m.: Our topic will be entertainment in Houston
Come share your favorite things to do around Houston. What little known museums or events do you enjoy?
Worship 8 - 8:45 p.m.
7 p.m. Discussion Topic: What is your vision for your New Year?
Do you have promises that you want to make to yourself or others?
What has been the result of past resolutions?
8:00-8:45 p.m. Meeting for Worship
All Friends are welcome to this Meeting for Worship and Candle Lighting.
We hope it will be a meaningful experience.
For those Friends who would have missed Candle Lighting, the Wed. night worship group decided to provide the opportunity for the Live Oak community during their weekly worship time. The doors will open at 7:00 p.m. and Friends will set up the usual foil covered table and center candle. At 7:30 p.m. worship will begin. As we wait expectantly in the silence with dimmed lights, each attender is invited to offer vocal ministry and light a candle to place on the table with those of other members of the community. Vocal or silent ministry is welcome as each attender lights his or her candle from that of another Friend, increasing the Light.
The combined light of all the different candles will shine brightly, symbolizing the strength and unity of The Light within all humankind, and emphasizing the importance of the letting The Light shine forth.
This has been a holiday tradition at Live Oak Friends Meeting since Dec. 1983. See the reprint of the Friends Journal article written by Yvonne Boeger giving the history of the tradition in the Documents section of the web page.
There will be extra candles available for those who have not brought their own.
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We continue our sharing about ways in which we deal with our anger. This topic has held our interest [and our angst] for quite some time. Come join us and share your story - either as catharsis, or as inspiritation to fellow attenders.
Here are links to two previous posts on how to post content on the website:
www.friendshouston.org/content/how-post-content-our-new-website
www.friendshouston.org/content/how-post-content-our-new-website-part-2
Remember, there is a lot of information available on the website. If you are looking for something, a good way to look is to do a search - type a keyword into the search box at the top right of the page, and see if what you are looking for is in the results. For example, if you want Joan's sandwich recipe, type "recipe" in the search box, and you will find the recipe!
Parker Palmer, author and former Dean of Studies at Pendle Hill, wrote about another kind of worshipful meeting - "Meeting for Learning". Such a meeting is held as preparation for discernment by a community; no decisions are made, although a topic which will be considered in a later business meeting is often the subject.
In such a meeting, three entities come together: the teacher, the student, and the “third thing”. These three change continuously throughout the meeting; the teacher becoming the student, the student becoming the teacher, and the ‘third thing’ evolving into whatever the collective discovers it is. “The ‘third thing’ mediates the relation between selves. It saves the dialogue from being a simple sharing of subjectives.”
In preparation, the teacher comes to the “meeting” with expert resources on the subject, but the real job is to nurture and encourage the expertise of others. The teacher must also help build a group which can be trusted by its members, so that they can find the truth that is beyond all their devices and agendas.
October 9: Dr. Klineberg, State of Houston
October 16: Living Nonviolence in Our Daily Lives #8
October 23: Post-Earthquake Haiti (Aaron Tate)
October 30: Meeting for Learning a la Parker Palmer (Bette Drexler)
November 6: Seekers Gathering (Bill Mize)
