AtholUU E-Newsletter – August 10, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
   All worship services begin at 10:00 AM

Aug. 14   “Summertime’s Peace”      Rev. Marilyn Richards

In all the tumult and the sensationalized strife of an election year, let’s take time to revel in summer days, connecting with all those wonderful experiences that are being ignored: peace, serenity, joy, etc.

Aug. 21      Rev. Richards preaching

Aug. 28      Rev. Elizabeth Strong preaching

Sept. 4      Steve Wills’  TED and Response

EVENTS

Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016,  Rev. Marilyn will have an article in the Greenfield Recorder, in the Faith Matters column.

Sunday, August 14, 2016
Peace Picnic
   Sponsored by North Quabbin Anti-bullying 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.

Chris Coyle is having a yard sale
on Saturday, August 20 starting at 8 a.m.
Included are many of Bob and Barbara’s books, field guides, magazines, notes, pictures, nick-nacks and many other miscellaneous items.  Everything will stand alone or be in small groups priced at $1.  All proceeds will be donated to the ABNC.

Location:  1978 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Athol.
Rain date:  Sunday, August 21

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

IN CLOSING

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s (Unitarian Minister, who left his job for the lecture circuit)
Divinity School Address
Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday
Evening, July 15, 1838

“In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.
The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the
tint of flowers. The air is full of birds, and sweet with the breath of the
pine, the balm-of-Gilead, and the new hay. Night brings no gloom to the heart
with its welcome shade. Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their
almost spiritual rays. Man under them seems a young child, and his huge globe a
toy. The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes
again for the crimson dawn. The mystery of nature was never displayed more
happily. The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures, and the
never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward, has not yielded yet
one word of explanation. One is constrained to respect the perfection of this
world, in which our senses converse.”

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Rev. Marilyn Richards