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Advent 1

Good to see everyone tonight.

For those who weren't around, the liturgy we used can be downloaded [here]

A precis? I wanted us to think about Advent as a time of preparation. Waiting... for... something. So perhaps over the next few weeks we could think about what we could do in the New Year in various terms:

//Ourselves

//As a group

//Within our communities

For me, I've been thinking about working towards a more ritual-rich life. Less logos, and more symbols. And so I've been wondering about trying together, throughout next year, to evolve liturgies for various times. For use ourselves each day, for use as a group through the weeks, and for use during special moments of celebration.

I know that people such as friends involved in the genesis of The Symbol Society are also really interested in this becoming a devolved project, where we feed stuff we've written in, and can then share what others have written too.

We'll wait. And see.

;-)

hospitality in this season of goodwill

by our best and worst attempts at hospitality we say to ourselves and to the whole world
everything matters, you are not alone, you are more than you know, the awful thing is not the final word, today is all we have, and today is enough, we need eachother.

words brother homan sent by text by a dear far away friend as the fireworks ended and the dark last night drew in , scribbled on the inner sleeve of my brand new diary as the new year began, then carried close.

and now, as we can see advent drawing close, we seek to visit this together.

last night we bagan to unravel what this might mean.
in amidst the hunger and end of the day frazzle, the planning and strategic suggestions, did we hear eachother whispering?