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:9443@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T170000 DTSTAMP:20210702T155417Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sacred-text-reading-group-2021-07-10/ SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group \n\n\nA weekly online sacred text re ading group with Amy\n\nUsing a spiritual-practice approach\, in each sess ion we will explore a different brief scriptural text in depth. The aims o f the sessions are educational (learning something about the texts and tra ditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what the texts ask of us)\, and co mmunity-building (getting to know each other better). Amy will have a vers ion of the text available to share\; “bring” your own if you like. All are welcome\, as are your suggestions of future texts. About half our rea dings so far have been those suggested by group members.\n\nOur reading fo r Saturday\, July 10\, 2021\, is longer than usual\, from Anton Chekhov's short story "In the Ravine. The context\, as given by the member who sugge sted it: "It’s 1900. Lipa is a peasant girl who’s married into a wealt hy family. Her husband has been sent to a prison camp Siberia for counterf eiting\, a crime he is guilty of. Her infant son has been murdered by her sister in law because he was going to inherit his grandfather’s wealth. She’s carrying the baby home from the hospital in the night when she mee ts two travelers\, an old man and a young man\, getting up from a campfire and getting into their wagon."\n\nAdd Event\n\n"I have been at the hospit al\," said Lipa after a pause. "My little son died there. Here I am carryi ng him home."\n[The old man] went with the light to Lipa and looked at her \, and his look expressed compassion and tenderness.\n"You are a mother\," he said\; "every mother grieves for her child."\nAnd he sighed and shook his head as he said it. [The young man] Vavila threw something on the fire \, stamped on it -- and at once it was very dark\; the vision vanished\, a nd as before there were only the fields\, the sky with the stars\, and the noise of the birds hindering each other from sleep. And the landrail call ed\, it seemed\, in the very place where the fire had been.\n[…]\n"Get i n\, we will give you a lift as far as Kuzmenki\, then you go straight on a nd we turn off to the left."\n[…]\nThey drove on for half an hour in sil ence.The old man says "Life is long\, there will be good and bad to come\, there will be everything. Great is mother Russia\," he said\, and looked round on each side of him. "I have been all over Russia\, and I have seen everything in her\, and you may believe my words\, my dear. There will be good and there will be bad. I went as a delegate from my village to Siberi a\, and I have been to the Amur River and the Altai Mountains and I settle d in Siberia\; I worked the land there\, then I was homesick for mother Ru ssia and I came back to my native village. We came back to Russia on foot\ ; and I remember we went on a steamer\, and I was thin as thin\, all in ra gs\, barefoot\, freezing with cold\, and gnawing a crust\, and a gentleman who was on the steamer -- the kingdom of heaven be his if he is dead -- l ooked at me pitifully\, and the tears came into his eyes. 'Ah\,' he said\, 'your bread is black\, your days are black. . . .' And when I got home\, as the saying is\, there was neither stick nor stall\; I had a wife\, but I left her behind in Siberia\, she was buried there. So I am living as a d ay labourer. And yet I tell you: since then I have had good as well as bad . Here I do not want to die\, my dear\, I would be glad to live another tw enty years\; so there has been more of the good. And great is our mother R ussia!" and again he gazed to each side and looked round.\n\n\n\nHow to jo in:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/57888278 1\, passcode: words\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 578 882 781\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 578 882 781\, passcode: 171919\n Join this class by one-tap on mobil e phones: +16699009128\,\,578882781# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\ n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03 /Online-Sacred-Texts-Reading-Group.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Classes,Learning,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR