listening to the trees...

This Sunday's live stream considers the wisdom of trees. It is the start of the new liturgical Season of Creation (September to the Feast of St. Francis) and asks us to listen for the truths of creation starting with Forest Sunday. We'll look at the oldest creation story in the Hebrew Bible, share some poems and rethink what it means for God to love the whole cosmos (John 3: 16). Maybe even a bit of Joni's "Woodstock" and Eucharist, too.  I love this quote from Herman Hesse:

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy… for trees stand lonesome-looking in a forest, yet not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. These trees are the most penetrating preachers, their silent fortitude struggles with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, and to represent themselves with beauty and integrity.

These pictures are from a new mentor I've been listening to who lives in the wetlands right behind our home.

Join me @ 9:55 am if you can @ https://www.facebook.com/Be-Still-and-Know-913217865701531/