BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.13//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:37@nvuu.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240218T120000 DTSTAMP:20241007T182403Z URL:https://nvuu.org/events/between-melting-and-freezing/ SUMMARY:"Between Melting and Freezing" with Rev. Dr. Jeanne Foster\, Anne J ungerman\, Krystalargo De Lindachrist\, & Brian Shaw DESCRIPTION:Between Melting and Freezing\n\nwith Rev. Dr. Jeanne Foster\, A nne Jungerman\, Krystalargo De Lindachrist\, &\; Brian Shaw\n\nWe often feel buffeted between crisis and crisis\, problem and problem\, issue and \nissue. How do we find moments of rest\, times of peace\, in a fast-paced \, crisis-torn\nworld? In a passage from the Four Quartets\, T. S. Eliot w rites: “Between melting\nand freezing / The soul’s sap quivers. / The dumb spirit stirs.” This poet\, who is\npart of our UU tradition\, has w isdom to offer us about living in the “between”\ntimes.\n\nRev. Dr. Je anne Foster grew up in New Orleans. She received her Master of Divinity de gree\nfrom Starr King\, was ordained by the Monterey Peninsula UU Church\, and served as minister of\nthe UU Fellowship in Modesto. She earned her P h.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in\nthe interdisciplinary area of Religion\, Literature\, and the Arts. She is Professor Emerita at Saint\n Mary&\;#39\;s College in Moraga\, where she taught Literature and Creat ive Writing for many years.\nHer primary focus now is on her own creative writing. Her poetry books include A Blessing of\nSafe Travel\; Goodbye\, S ilver Sister\; and most recently\, Your Form Became My Own. She is co-\ntr anslator with Alan Williamson of The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bia nca Tarozzi\, which\nwon the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. Her new manuscript is\ncalled From a Tuscan Farmhouse Window. Her passion is ballroom dancing and\, in particular\,\nballroom dancing i n Tuscany.\n\nHYBRID SERVICE: in-person &\; online. Online: join HERE \nMeeting ID: 965 8475 4060\nPasscode: 218531\nCall-in #: (669) 900-9128\n \n\n\nOrder of Service\nWelcome\nOpening Words\nCentering through Music — “Memories” (from Cats) by Andrew Lloyd Weber\nChalice Lighting\n\n Anne: We light this chalice as a symbol of the light within every human he art.\nMay our individual sparks meet and merge bringing both light and war mth to the world.\nCongregational Response: Be ye lamps unto yourselves\; be your own confidence\;\nhold to the truth within yourselves as to the on ly lamp.\n(Attributed to Gautama Buddha)\nOpening Hymn — #354 “We Laug h\, We Cry”\nTime for All Ages — “The Naming of Cats\,” From T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats\nSinging Out the Children — #118 “This Little Light of Mine”\nReading — Selections from Four Quartets\, T.S. Eliot\nReflection — On Eliot’s connection with UUism and my interest in this particular passage from Four Quartets\nAnnouncemen ts\nSharing of Joys and Concerns\nSilence (one minute)\nMusical Response — Improvisation\nOffering — “You Must Believe in Spring” by M. Leg rand\nMessage — “Between Melting and Freezing” — Rev. Dr. Jeanne F oster\nClosing Words\nClosing Hymn — #16 ‘“Tis a Gift to be Simple ”\nExtinguishing the Chalice\nWe extinguish this chalice\, but not the l ight of truth\, the warmth of love\, or the fire of commitment. These we c arry in our hearts out into the world\, until we meet again.\nBenediction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/nvuu.org/wp-content/uploads/20 24/02/sm_2024-02-18_FB-valentine-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Service LOCATION:Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists\, 1626 Salvador Ave\, Napa\, C alifornia\, 94558\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1626 Salvador Ave\, Napa\, California\, 94558\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR