Advent Offering: Keeping Afloat
Soon the season of Advent will offer us hope at the endings, and we pray, in-breakings of new life we can take hold of in deepened trust and courage.
I want to invite you to an Advent class series: Keeping Afloat.
This is a seasonal offering of Wild Indigo Guild, and you can also find more about it at www.boatandtable.org/build.
Most simply, I offer time to gather and keep in touch with that of God in you and others. These days of the year and history may be feeling especially dark and uncertain. As the seasons change, disappointments erupt, times of uncertainty swirl, we can listen together for consolation, and hope that runs down deep.
We will explore five practices drawn from the centuries of Christian life that can aid you to sink down contemplatively into the stability, integrity and beauty of the divine life.
Imagine them as a craft by which to float through the smoother and rougher waters we pass through of various kinds.
Reading the Land
Praying in Time
Accompanying Others
Nearing Stillness
Working with Your Hands
We will meet for an hour to take an easy paddle through a series of slides that include art, images and quotes that afford ways to see, be and act, knit with ecology and life today. Our contemplative time and conversation will lead us toward practical steps for your life now. (And it will be relaxing and fun to look at the art and quotes I've 'curated' for us to ponder together!)
Time and Dates: gather 'online' Monday 4-5pm Pacific/7-8pm Eastern on November 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 23. With enough people, I can offer two evening times, one Pacific and one Eastern.
To sign up, simply email, call or text me to say that you'd like to take part. . Please provide me an email address, you will receive a link to join the meeting near to the first session.
The class is free of charge, and I welcome your sharing this class with your friends, local community or church.
Attend as many or as few as you like. I hope to see or hear from you soon.
in hope and peace,
Evan
John Shute Duncan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
