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	<description>embracing restoration through hospitality, solidarity, &#38; awareness</description>
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		<title>waking up to our idols (a version of God made in our image)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love stories where a character is seemingly "stuck" only to find, create, enter a turning point that leads to their freedom from an enslaved existence. Check out Menomena's Evil Bee - what resonates in you through the artful story?
As a community, we've been exploring the idea of "Suspended Space." We are a group consciously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=119</link>
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		<title>is your faith making you a more beautiful person?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our gathering tonight, we began talking about suspending space as a group - being willing to open ourselves to the hope that everyone and everything can be instruments of our own transformation.   We spoke together about the postures of "protecting" God by our obsession with a boundaries focused faith vs. an openness - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=112</link>
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		<title>longing to behold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've become increasingly aware of a very real tension of attempting to define God and feeling like I am losing God in some way the more I attempt to describe Him.  At first I think it seemed like I was merely reacting against those who defined God in such a way that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=108</link>
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		<title>rethread is back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rethread is back - and ready to neighborhood families BACK TO SCHOOL.
Check out the latest email update for info (or read below):




UPCOMING STORE:
"Back To School Store" Saturday August 14
Rethread has returned and is ready to help make Back to School easier on families in the greater Plaza District area. As always, we are relying on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=106</link>
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		<title>awareness and it&#8217;s affect/effect [daily examen]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, in the Gathering, we will practice the Daily Examen.  This has been an important practice in our pursuit of being more aware of God, of others, and our interior life.  We have a pdf of the practice available in on our Resources page.
A few steps to follow to enter into the Daily Examen:
* Slow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=96</link>
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		<title>the way before us: creativity or &#8220;death-bringing&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the book Creativity by Matthew Fox to pour over it a second time.  His subtitle is "Where the Divine and Human Meet" - it's at this point of creativity, for Fox, that we've been made.  I find the idea quite intriguing.  Creativity---seeing life emerge in our way of living, in our expression, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=92</link>
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		<title>a bicycle dismantled . . . a life retreived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

This past sunday was a Film&#38;Dialogue format for The Gathering.  We had the great opportunity to view Jitensha (Bicycle).  It was a great conversation around the way all of us experience certain seasons of "dismantling".  It's in these often slow downward descents that it seems our life is slipping through our fingers---unable to grasp and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=90</link>
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		<title>together, we taste and . . . [communion baking sign-up]</title>
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"His Body Broken . . . His Blood Poured Out . . . His life in us," are the words you will often hear as we gather around the bread and cup of Christ at our gathering.  Our senses are engaged, and together, we taste and are reminded of Christ's sacrifice.  Together, we taste and our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Blurring the Lines Between You and Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our conversation on Solidarity last week has really stuck with me since.  Kathy and I watched the Chris Tse video again together and talked about some of the ideas he brought up in his slam.  The primary thought that has seemed to confront me many times since our conversation is how easy it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=84</link>
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		<title>exploring community within [practice]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DIRECTED SILENCE: exploring community within (inspired by a tilden edwards practice)
"Close your eyes and let your imagination take your through your body with a focus on its spacious and miraculous quality. Emphasizing the spaciousness can include a sense of openness of forms."  From within to skin, head to toe, shoulders to fingers explore the boundaries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergenceokc.org/jointheconversation/?p=82</link>
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