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“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...

“Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.“ (From: John 13:34-35.) In this newsletter are registration opportunities for: a TCS online retreat on May 08, 2025 with Heather Ruce; a TCS gift: a workshop on May 31, 2025 with Therese DesCamp a TCS online retreat on June 14, 2025 with Alana Levandoski; and an in-person (with a Zoom option) retreat with Heather Ruce over the dates of October 05-09, 2025. Whirling Water Dervishes Tools for Turning around a Hostile...