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“Do this work until you feel the delight of it.” – The Cloud of Unknowing   In This Month’s Issue… A reflection from Gillian Drader on Returning to What Was Never Lost . Registration opens for TCS’s November 29, 2025 online retreat with Cynthia Bourgeault. Enjoy a “ Contemplative Summer 2025 ” e-store promotion. Membership Season.  TCS’s In-person & Online retreat with Heather Ruce in October 2025.   Returning to What Was Never Lost: A reflection on uncovering the authentic self by Gillian...

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens…” – Ecclesiastes 3:1   In This Month’s Issue… A reflection from Therese DesCamp on couch grass. Share your contemplations with TCS through a short community survey. A new TCS video: “Meet TCS Teacher, Therese DesCamp.” Upcoming retreats. Wide Spot: Couch grass by Therese DesCamp Revulsion is not my instinctive response when someone confides their image of Love. But when she said, “I think of Love—big, universal...

“Love is the religion and the universe is the book.“ (Rumi, his sentiment as expressed in Coleman Barks’ book, “Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing.“)   In this newsletter for you:  A new reflection from Paula Pryce; Save-the-dates for two new and upcoming TCS retreats with Cynthia Bourgeault; Thanks to donors; Advance details on TCS’s Advent 2025 retreat; A poem by Ilka Fischer; and Continued registration opportunities for TCS’s October 2025 hybrid (in-person or Zoom)...

“ Our talent, our gift, is our willingness to enter the reciprocal dance with whatever cards we’ve been dealt in this plane.“ (Cynthia Bourgeault) In this newsletter are:  retreat registration opportunities, including for TCS’s upcoming annual in-person retreat; a 15% discount coupon for TCS’s online store; links to a new TCS video; and  an important update for donors. Witnesss by Therese DesCamp Every night at 8 p.m., after the war began, Pope Francis called Holy Family Church in Gaza. Every...