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Hello Reader!

Hello beloved one.

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Announcements:

*Office hours are happening at Wolverine Farm on Thursday from 10 to 12. It will be delightful.

*Hey! Listen up! We are taking a whole church rest for Labor Day weekend. This means we will not have meet in person on September 1st. Please stay home and eat a big breakfast. Or, go camping. Or, walk a meandering path. Or, sit and watch a bird. Or, snuggle with someone you love. We’ll provide an at-home liturgy closer to the date.

*Looking for a way to help with the Alexander wildfire? Consider this:

EMERGENCY

FOSTER

CALL

​All Aboard Animal Rescue is calling for an emergency foster call! Some of our Foster's are having to evacuate due to the sudden Loveland Wildfire. If you are able to take a pup or kitty if needed please *text Emma (970-217-3070)

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Bumble Being

We usually follow the Revised Common Lectionary. Click on the link if you want to see what we'll be exploring in the weeks to come.

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INVOCATION

Holy God,

ever present and moving among your people,

draw us near to you,

that in place of hostility there may be peace;

in place of loneliness, compassion;

in place of aimlessness, direction;

and in place of brokenness, wholeness;

through Christ Jesus, in whom you draw near to us.

Amen.

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SONGS

Come to Us O Lord Young Oceans, Sarah Macintos... PREVIEW   ​

Safe Place (Psalm 84) [Remas... Enter The Worship Circle, Ka... PREVIEW   ​

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SCRIPTURES & READINGS

Ephesians 3:14-21

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

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Organize our days, we pray,

by the working of your Spirit

in our midst.

Organize our thoughts,

by the working of your Spirit

in our minds.

Organize our emotions,

by the working of your Spirit

in our inmost hearts.

Organize our desires,

by the working of your Spirit

in our will.

Organize our relationships,

by the working of your Spirit

in our labor, homes, and leisure.

Illuminate our lives, God,

illuminate us.

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TAKEAWAYS & COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

• “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Control freak — okay, now you say control freak who?!” Do you ever feel like there is a script going on much of the time and when someone says “knock knock,” they maybe don’t want to have a real conversation but rather want to make sure you’re staying on the ideological script?
• It’s hard to get a handle on all the complex issues, conflicts, grievances, etceteras in our world. Even if you can grasp something, you can’t seem to talk people into or out of much. But I think we can always return to love — we can get a grip on that.
• That knock knock we hear too often insists we think fast, produce, perform. More and more, we can’t think, produce, perform to the satisfaction of ourselves or the one knocking. But I think we can always return to love — we can get a grip on that.
• Paul’s prayer for his friends reveals a longing to be established in love. How? By returning to being.
• I think simply being is an establishing practice. I found bumblebees in a meadow in New Mexico. I just was. They just were. I felt love. What is a return to being for you?
• What is an establishing (stabilizing) practice for you? When you don’t know enough, when you haven’t done enough, when you are not sure what love looks like right now, where and how may you return to being?
• Get over the tyrant in your own head who insists on perfect performances. Join me in this thought experiment. Put your name where I put mine: I am not Darren experiencing the body of Christ. We are the body of Christ experiencing Darren.

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ARTWORK

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BENEDICTION

You are God’s Child

Gifted with dreams and visions.

Upon you rests the grace of God like flames of fire.

Love and serve the Lord in the wildness of your being.

Practice Resurrection.

And may the deep peace of Christ be with you,

The strong arms of God sustain you,

And the glory of the Holy Spirit shine upon your face.

Amen.

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Resource: Jim Carey Darren referenced these far from dumb and dumber words from actor, Jim Carey, from a commencement speech in 2014. They are poignant and worth revisiting: "Life is so beautiful, especially when I'm absent from it. Don't get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character, and I was lucky to get the part, but I don't think of that as me anymore. I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world and now I feel like the world and universe experiencing a guy. So there's kind of been a shift." "That peace that we're after lies beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory." "You will only ever have two choices - love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart."

Practice: Return to Being Hey you, there. Yes, you. Look up right now. What surrounds you? What is small and tender and amazing? Or, what is vast and expansive and astounding? And how about you? Can you, just for a moment, feel yourself existing as one facet of God's glory? Give it try.

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Be.

Grace and Peace,

Katrina and Darren

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