BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18416@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260819T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260819T130000 DTSTAMP:20260814T233842Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2-2026-08-19/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Tree of Life-Malick DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Tree of Life-Malick An exploratio n 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\n\nThe reading for this session: Wedne sday\, August 19th\n\nThe nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'l l follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted\, for gotten\, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to plea se itself. Get others to please it\, too. Likes to lord it over them. To h ave its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shin ing around it\, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us th at no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end. I will be tr ue to you. Whatever comes.\n—From The Tree of Life (film) 2011\, Terrenc e Malick\n\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in whi ch we read and converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While ma ny small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are freque ntly in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those wh o are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoo m hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\n\nHow to join :\n\n\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/968658 08923\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Mee ting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 669 9006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Ar ea?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonan t-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly cal led "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more of ten than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualit ies 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 i mportance 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 perce ive or feel more deeply\n be more fully 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:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR