AtholUU E-Newsletter – August 5, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
   All worship services begin at 10:00 AM

Aug.  7        Steve Wills’  TED and Response —  Purple Heart Day

Aug. 14      Rev. Richards preaching

Aug. 21      Rev. Richards preaching

Aug. 28      Rev. Elizabeth Strong preaching

EVENTS

Peace Picnic is being held, Sunday, August 14, 2016
   Sponsored by North Quabbin Antibullying Task Force
Butterfield Park –downtown Orange
From 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM
**BYO lunch, drinks, etc.**

from Carla Charter:
Peace Picnic at Butterfield Park.  There will be no food be served with everyone bringing their own picnic lunch.  We are hoping to have community band stand type music, peace readings, and make the afternoon a time to just enjoy each others company and build community.

Board of Management Meeting will be Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 10:00 AM.

Please mark your calendar — Fall Fair is Saturday, September 17, 2016

 

IN CLOSING

from This Day In Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman

1546
Stephen Dolet, a book printer was burned at the stake in Lyons, France for denying the Trinity.  He was a friend of Michael Servetus, who met the same fate in Champel, near Geneva, Switzerland in 1533.

1997
Edna Pearl Bruner, a field worker for the Universalist Church in America, died at age 93.  Her field work during the 40s and 50s made her a well known and loved figure.  After the Universalists merged with the Unitarians in 1961, she worked for the new UUA until 1968.

And, a poem for a summer’s day

Leisure – Poem by William Henry Davies (Welsh poet)

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.