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Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series called Earth-Honoring Faith. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when we attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and encourage us to respond more faithfully in our daily lives. Outline for Earth-Honoring Faith ▪August 16:…
A Place at the Table
There is a great deal of information that may be learned from the website for this phenomenal documentary “A Place at the Table”. Please take time to visit, become a Hunger Fighter by playing the game and find out more!
Picnics are process
“The picnic philosophy is one of flexibility, of leisure, of carpe diem. The sun is shining. Pack up, head out, give in. Heed the Slow Food manifesto: ‘savor suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure.’ And for goodness sake, enjoy. Picnics are process, or should be.” (from Urban Picnic by John Burns & Elisabeth Caton) What is your faith process? Do you savor suitable doses of doing good, doing no harm and practicing the spiritual disciplines?
Picnic pests.
“I do not like to eat al fresco. No sane person does, I feel. When it is nice enough for people to eat outside, it is also nice enough for mosquitoes, horse and deer flies, as well as wasps and yellow jackets. I don’t much like sand in my food and thus while I will endure a beach iconic I never look forward to them. My idea of bliss is a screened-in porch from which you can watch the sun…
Picnic
What Becomes a Picnic Most Huckleberries, boysenberries, grapes Disregard for clocks Cradle of friends Cloth napkins Influence of clouds: arcs, tufts, flocks Water moving No money Lemon,lime,and vinegar (sour notes refresh in heat) Shade Atmospheric effects: light pillars, coronas, waves in the sun Buckeyes sipping nectar Expectations of night – later, inside (from picnics by Hilary & Alex Heminway) What becomes your faith the most?
Weeding or planting?
” In my world, gardening consists of a desperate scramble to remove marauding foliage before it engulfs the house. PLANT something? When? I suppose It might help if I were diligent. But I’m more of a diva gardener, awaiting the muse’s call. Conditions must be perfect — not too hot or cold or wet or buggy — or I simply cannot set foot on the leafy stage. But occasionally, the stars do align and I head bravely into the yard,…