RalphConnor Easter IV Potluck Worship ~ May 11, 2022 at 7:15pm I know this drill. I settle down, I pause, I breathe. I tell my mind, please, be still. I know this dream. It feels like wind that sings, like air, showered clean, like holy ground. It’s hopeful, wild like faith on fire, like passion found, like Spring, focusing, surprising. ~ Dan Stone Let Christ be rising now in our lives and in our prayers, as we open our …
Grounding and being…the journey of Lent continues You are invited to have a candle ready to light. The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground of our own feet, and learn to be at home. ~ Wendell Berry The Avowal As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and …
And so in this Lenten season, We journey with Jesus, Spirit-led, Into the wilderness of our apprehension To face our demons, And to find the courage to open again and again, To lean once more into the winds of grace And be uplifted by mistral presence. Bruce Sanguin Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That’s the trick of it, really. Open yourself to everything, And everything opens itself to you. Richard Wagamese Come to sing, come …
Evensong March 16, Lent III, 2022, 7:15 pm Don’t Know Mind You are invited to bring a cup of tea (perhaps in a thermos cup that will stay warm) and a candle. Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That’s the trick of it, really. Open yourself to everything, and everything opens itself to you. Richard Wagamese The single hardest lesson I’ve ever had to learn is that the greater, grander plan is not mine to create …
Evensong – March 2, 7:15 pm This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. For the imposition of ashes, you are invited to bring and have ready, a small bowl with ashes (mixed with oil), or essential oil, or water. You are also invited to bring and have ready a candle. You may also wish to have a journal or paper and pen to use. It may be that when we no longer know what to do …
The Practice of Getting Lost I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, then I lost my mind. Rumi So this week I will endeavour to be fully present in the lostness; to examine all I’ve left behind in order to feel safe; be mindful of undiscovered gifts; and to find new ways to befriend uncertainty and hopefully discover new and yet undiscovered paths for the journey ahead. https://www.morebeyond.co.za/ “I have found things while I was lost that I …
Evensong January 26, 7:15pm To be struck by the magnificence of nature is to be returned again, in all-too brief-moments, to the innocence in which we were born. Awe. Wonder. Humility. We draw them into us and are altered forever by the unquestionable presence of the Creator. All things ringing true together. If we carry that deep sense of communion back into our workaday lives, everyone we meet benefits. That is what we are here for: to remind each other of …
Epiphany III, Welcoming the Guiding Light Join for song, reflection, poetry, and inspiration as we continue our Epiphany explorations. You may wish to have a candle and your journal or paper. Start right now take a small step you can call your own don’t follow someone else’s heroics, be humble and focused, Start close in. David Whyte I’m preparing to go out, getting ready for a journey, because it is January, and each of us is going on a journey …
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous’? Actually, who are you not to be? ~ Marianne Williamson You and I together Mirror the light of light And illumine the pathway home ~ Catherine F. MacLean
Feast of Epiphany We dance the blessed paradox Of one more sacred spin around the sun Pausing at the threshold of yesterday’s yearnings and tomorrow’s dreams. ~ Sharon Seyfarth Garner We begin again, a new year and the season of Epiphany ~ a time of revealing, of new insights, of magi on a long journey, following a star. Is there a word that has chosen you for the journey ahead? Release your thinking and expectations. Soften your grasp and surrender into a …