PRELUDE
Music by John Gerard
WELCOME
Welcome to The
We come together with diversity of thoughts, stories, talents, hopes and hurts. All we bring is welcome; our prayer is that in coming together with all our differences and with Spirit, we participate toward a new divine reality. This is sacred space.
OPENING MEDITATION
by Donald Jeffrey Hayes, Earth Prayers, p155
Do not stifle me with the strange scent of low growing mountain lilies – do not confuse me with salubrious odor of honeysuckle!
I cannot separate in my mind
Sweetness from sweetness – Mimosa from wild white violets; Magnolia from Cape Jasmine!
I am from the north tide country, I can understand only the scent of seaweed; Salt marsh and scrub pine riding on the breath of an amorous fog!
O do not confuse me
With sweetness upon sweetness;
Let me escape safely from this gentle madness –
Let me go back to the salt of sanity
in the scent of the sea…!
TELLING OUR STORY
I see you!
I am here!
PEACE – TOAST
In this place we creatively express;
Some of us are focused, some are a mess!
We participate during the sermon
And people do connect, we are learnin’
Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave
At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave
Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.
Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
By John
CONVERSATIONAL SERMON
Mark 4:35-41 (end of Ch. 4)
Later in the day, when evening had come, he says to them, “Let’s go across on the other side.”
After sending the crowd away, they took him along since he was in the boat, and other boats accompanied him. Then a great squall comes up and the waves begin to pound against the boat, so that the boat suddenly began to fill up. He was in the stern sleeping on a cushion. And they wake him up and say to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are going to drown?
Then he got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Be quiet, and shut up!” The wind then died down and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so cowardly? You still don’t trust, do you?”
And they were completely terrified and would say to one another, “Who can this fellow be, that even the wind and sea obey him?”
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· Thoughts on today’s reading?
· Who is this ‘fellow’ anyway???
· What do they find so terrifying?
COMMUNION AND SHARING OF RESOURCES
God is with us.
Yes she is.
FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
BENEDICTION
And now may the Goddess bless you all and bless you kindly – Be at Peace and Drink in the Spirit!
POSTLUDE
By John
