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		<title>Farewell Chalice Reflection for Jan &amp; &#8220;Benediction&#8221; &#8211; June 20, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to part ways reflectively, mindfully, compassionately, in the spirit of religious community?  How to part ways with no strings attached, but words that ring with....what might we call it....blessing?  At the conclusion of each of our worship experiences together, I offer you a blessing, a benediction.]]></description>
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		<title>Chalice Reflection &amp; &#8220;Sing out, sing on&#8230;.&#8221; &#8211; June 13, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hold each other's history.  Whether it is a history of six years or six days, it is equally precious.   In this time I have learned and grown from the lessons you have taught me, some easy, some not so easy.  We turn a page in the respective chapters of our life journeys.  As we do so, may we all continue to 
Sing out, sing on....

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		<title>&#8220;Wise as OWLS, Innocent as Doves&#8221; &#8211; Youth Sunday, June 6, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don't commonly think of serpents--or snakes--as wise; but they are.  ....they can also be lovable.   So it is with owls.  They're known for their wisdom.  But for their love?   As the "Whoo's" sounded softly through the wintry wind, two owls sang their song of love and gazed forth into the night as if they knew the churnings of the world far better than any of us.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lives Celebrated, Living Remembered&#8221; &#8211; Memorial Day Sunday &#8211; May 30, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 21:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem strange, but as a minister, I find the process of planning a memorial service immensely gratifying.  Not because someone died, though we all will.  Not because I speak with family and friends of the deceased in the intimacy of their grieving, though we have all been there in the land of grief.  Rather because I receive from family and friends a treasure of stories of a life lived and living remembered.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nature, Nurture, whatever&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day, May 9, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were I to ask my own mother--she who gave birth to me and did indeed nurture me--what her opinion is on this matter of nature or nurture, I can only guess what she would say.    Her response would emerge from a century of traveling her own life course.  In fact, this is my first Mother's Day without my mother here to ask such questions.    ...what would she say as a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, and a longtime nurse, on this matter?  I'll tell you exactly what she'd say.....]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;All Things New&#8221; &#8211; May 2, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 22:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My epiphany of the "nowness" of time....has...ripened into a consciousness of the fragility of time.  ...The "new" doesn't last.  In the blink of an eye, we are here and not here.  In the blink of an eye, the universe shifts.     Awareness permits us to stretch the moment.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God, the Movie&#8221; &#8211; April 11, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Cradle of Humankind on a sunny August morning almost two years ago, a boy chased his dog.  If young Matthew could have leapt roughly two million years into the past, he may have met a strange counterpart to himself, standing upright on two legs,but with features that would have startled Matthew and his dog.  Rarely do we as humans see and touch our beginnings as did Matthew.   ....It is with this story of Matthew and Tau and their romp in the grass and what comes of it that I would begin "God, the Movie!"]]></description>
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		<title>Chalice Reflection &amp; &#8220;The Amazing Daffodil Story&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Hope Rising&#8221; &#8211; Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010</title>
		<link>http://firstparishcohasset.org/2010/04/chalice-reflection-the-amazing-daffodil-story-hope-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's the big deal about Easter for those of us who hold to a religion of faith and doubt?  What's the big deal about Easter if Jesus didn't really rise from the dead, but stayed dead?   ....The message, the teachings, the life, the love, and the hope that the young man Jesus brought and left with us is a big deal.   Against all odds, he fed the most down-trodden with hope. With healing presence, he touched soul and psyche, and perhaps bodily healing followed suit.  He restored a belief in the possible and claimed that there were ways other than violent rebellion to resist the forces of imperial Rome.  He befriended the outcast.   ]]></description>
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		<title>Chalice Reflection &amp; &#8220;Peace and Islam&#8221; &#8211; March 21, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace does not equal pacifism, nor does peacemaking equal pacifism.  Pacifism is an absolute, and I respect such a stance.   Peacemaking is what I try to practice.   As long as I know that I am capable of violently defending myself or another creature, I am not a pacifist.   If, however, I feed the fear that another person or another people or another religion is undermining however I consider “me and mine,” and if I act on this fear, I am no more innocent than a hijacker, a crusader, or any of the women and men of history made and history being made who reject surrender to the promise and possibility of love and peace.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spirit of Life&#8221; &#8211; March 14, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone asked you what you would sing if your were invited to describe our faith in song, I'm betting that most of you wouldn't hesitate.  "Spirit of Life," of course.   ....Like all songs, this one had a pregnancy, a long one, a deeply soulful gestation.  Its receptacle was the social activism that has described Carolyn McDade's life for decades.]]></description>
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