BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17151@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251220T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251220T170000 DTSTAMP:20251215T215618Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-12-20/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Pillars of Creation DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Pillars of Creation An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\ , and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have f ound that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate communi ty of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the re ading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a sessi on only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation . Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well t his way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n \n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and ca lling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from gr oup members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday (12/20 at 4PM)\n\nThe test will be this famous photo from the Hubble Telescope of the Eagle Nebula a nd its "Pillars of Creation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Cre ation#/media/File:Pillars_of_creation_2014_HST_WFC3-UVIS_full-res_denoised .jpg.\n\n[caption id="attachment_49782" align="alignnone" width="144"] Pil lars of Creation[/caption]\n\nHere's a short description of what the photo shows: The Eagle Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust about 7000 light years away from Earth. At the edge of this cloud\, denser of clumps of gas and dust are collapsing into stars. It takes about 1 million years for one of these stars to ignite its fusion process. Then the heat of the fusion disp erses the neighboring gas and erodes the pillars. In about 3 million years \, the pillars will be gone.\n\nWe may also discuss this translation by Ro bert Alter of Genesis: When God began to create heaven and earth\, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s br eath hovering over the waters\, God said\, “Let there be light.” And t here was light.\n\n\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web b rowser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone : 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this clas s by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https:/ /zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wedn esday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\n Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \ ;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular-- but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\ n connect to something of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more ful ly and authentically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR