Re-Wilding God

Continuing our theme of Ancient Wisdom is the growing collective awareness that God is also found in song and dance and in the trees and the ocean and in the dance of the butterfly. The parables that Jesus uses to describe our Kin-Dom with all of creation is designed as an unstoppable force that rises up and gains momentum.

I will also be drawing upon the life of John Muir once again as someone who spiritually evolved and matured in his relationship with God over time. From his strict conservative Scottish Calvinist upbringing where he would be physically beaten if he did not recite the New Testament perfectly from memory, to the older man who was described as a ‘wild man’ with long hair and a beard who once tied himself to the top of a pine tree during a storm so that he could get a better sense of how the trees moved and swayed, John Muir led quite an extraordinary life.

He found God in the wild, within nature. Once he discovered a new species of orchids he had never seen and fell to his knees, weeping with joy at their beauty. Muir’s Re-Wilding of God was so complete in his later years that he would he would literally preach the Gospel of the trees as he said, “…that I could descend from these mountains like John the Baptist to preach the brown-green woods to all the juiceless world…crying, ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Sequoia is at hand.’”

Luke 13:18-24

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”

The Parable of the Yeast

And again he said, “To what should I compare the kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

The Narrow Door

Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. 

Heaven and Hell 111"There is a like correspondence with things in the vegetable kingdom... Trees, according to their species, correspond to the perceptions and knowledges of good and truth which are the source of intelligence and wisdom.” - Swedenborg

Join us!

 Blessings,

Rev. Dave

Sunday Rhythm:

3pm Work Together

4pm Worship Together

5pm Eat Together

Come as you are, stay as you are able

All Are Welcome