When: Sunday, June 19th, at 4pm
Where: Meet at Saluda UMC and we will all head to the Missing 40 Trail (aka the "Lost 40")
For info on the trail: http://saludaclt.org/missing-40-trail
Join us for a contemplative hike on the Missing 40 trail, followed by picnic dinner and swimming afterwards for those who wish to!
We will be meeting at the trailhead and will be learning some contemplative practices for reflection/prayer/meditation in Creation to then take out with us into the woods on a quiet hike. Lena will lead any children on a kid-themed contemplative hike so the adults can enjoy some rare solitude.
Please bring picnic food and your own plates, cups, napkins, and utensils (the less plastic we use the better for the earth).
The rough schedule will be:
4-5pm Contemplative Hike
5-6pm- Picnicking along the water
6pm- Swimming
The passages we will be meditating on are:
Psalm 42: 1-6
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Proverbs 8: 12, 20-31 (from The Message adaptation)
I am Lady Wisdom, and I live next to Sanity;
Knowledge and Discretion live just down the street. […]
My benefits are worth more than a big salary, even a very big salary;
the returns on me exceed any imaginable bonus.
You can find me on Righteous Road—that’s where I walk—
at the intersection of Justice Avenue,
Handing out life to those who love me,
filling their arms with life—armloads of life!
God sovereignly made me—the first, the basic—
before he did anything else.
I was brought into being a long time ago,
well before Earth got its start.
I arrived on the scene before Ocean,
yes, even before Springs and Rivers and Lakes.
Before Mountains were sculpted and Hills took shape,
I was already there, newborn;
Long before God stretched out Earth’s Horizons,
and tended to the minute details of Soil and Weather,
And set Sky firmly in place,
I was there.
When he mapped and gave borders to wild Ocean,
built the vast vault of Heaven,
and installed the fountains that fed Ocean,
When he drew a boundary for Sea,
posted a sign that said no trespassing,
And then staked out Earth’s Foundations,
I was right there with him, making sure everything fit.
Day after day I was there, with my joyful applause,
always enjoying his company,
Delighted with the world of things and creatures,
happily celebrating the human family.
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