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Attention: Until further notice, Many Wells is taking a hiatus from meeting on a monthly basis. We will continue to hold space for Creation Spiritual principles throughout the coming moons.
Join in our sacred celebration!
2nd Sunday of the month
from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
in Unity Church's lobby,
3205 N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO.
Bring yourself and, if you choose, bring an element to incorporate into our celebration, exemplifying this month's topic:
Every one of us is a mystic.
We can enter the mystical as much through
beauty (Via Positiva) as through contemplation and
suffering (Via Negativa).
We are born full of wonder and can recover it at any age.
For example, depending on your way of expressing yourself, you might want to bring a poem, or a quote; a song or a chant; a circle dance or body motion prayer; something to adorn the altar space, like something from our natural world or from your artistic imagination -
whatever you choose to share for the good of the community. We compile our order of worship as we gather, joyfully trusting
in the creative chaos of the ever-unfolding Cosmos.
Come Play!
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Monthly Sacred Celebration Topics
*January 11, 2009*
Our inner work can be understood as a four-fold journey involving:
- awe, delight, amazement
(known as the Via Positiva)
-uncertainty, darkness, suffering, letting go (Via Negativa)
-birthing, creativity, passion
(Via Creativa)
- justice, healing, celebration
(Via Transformativa).
We weave through these paths like a spiral danced not a ladder climbed.
*February 15, 2009*
Every one of us is a mystic.
We can enter the mystical as much through beauty (Via Positiva) as through contemplation and suffering
(Via Negativa).
We are born full of wonder and
can recover it at any age.
*March 8, 2009*
Every one of us is an artist.
Whatever the expression of our creativity, it is our prayer and praise (Via Creativa).
*April 12, 2009*
Every one of us is a prophet.
Our prophetic work is to interfere with
all forms of injustice and that which interrupts authentic life
(Via Transformativa).
*May 10, 2009*
Diversity is the nature of the Universe.
We rejoice in and courageously honor
the rich diversity within the Cosmos
and expressed among individuals
and across multiple cultures, religions
and ancestral traditions.
*June 14, 2009*
The basic work of God is compassion and we, who are all original blessings and sons and daughters of the Divine, are called to compassion.
We acknowledge our shared interdependence; we rejoice at
one another's joys and grieve at
one another's sorrows and labor to heal the causes of those sorrows.
*July 12, 2009*
There are many wells of faith and knowledge drawing from one underground river of Divine wisdom. THe practice of honoring, learning and celebrating the wisdom collected from these wells is Deep Ecumenism.
We respect and embrace the
wisdom and oneness
that arises from the diverse wells of
all the sacred traditions of the world.
*August 9, 2009*
Ecological justice is essential for the sustainablitity of life on Earth.
Ecology is the local expression of cosmology and so we commit to live in light of this value: to pass on the beauty and health of creation to
future generations.
*September 13, 2009
The Universe, and all within it, is fundamentally a blessing.
Our relationship with the Universe fills us with awe.
*October 11, 2009*
In Creation, God is both
immanent and transcendent.
This is panentheism which is
not theism (God out there) and
not athesism (no God anywhere).
We experience that the Divine is in all things and all things are in the Divine.
*November 8, 2009*
God is as much Mother as Father,
as much Child as Parent, as much God in mystery as the God in history, as much beyond all words and images as in all forms and beings.
We are liberated from the need to cling to God in one form or one literal name.
*December 14, 2009*
In our lives, it is through the work
of spiritual practice that we find
our deep and true selves.
Through the arts of meditation and silence we cultivate a clarity of mind
and move beyond fear into
compassion and community.
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