Wilderness Way Community's Sunday Rhythm - What you can expect

 Leaving

(Loving)

Learning

(Loving)

Living

 

Leaving:  We leave behind empire and everything that tames, enslaves, domesticates, numbs, silences, distracts us.  This is crossing the Red Sea.  This is remembering our baptism.  This is affirming our call and desire to live fully alive.  This is creating alternative space.  This is entering the wilderness.

 

Walking the labyrinth…Gathering…Opening ritual

 

(Loving):  We remind ourselves of our commitment to practice the skills of loving one another in order to create an open, safe place in which to learn, discover, uncover, struggle, be vulnerable, and lean into a new way of being in the world.

 

Reading of the Shalom Covenant practices of Loving:

Seeing, hearing, honoring, having good will.

 

Learning:  We enter liminal space in which we open ourselves to deep wisdom in order to discover healing, power and wiser ways of living.  This is wilderness space.  This is the place where transformation happens, where visions are sought and received, where that which is not life-giving is stripped away, where old patterns of domestication are revealed and dismantled and new ways of freedom and justice emerge.  This is the place where new communities are born.

 

First Sunday focus: The wisdom of Jesus and the Jesus movement

Second Sunday focus: The wisdom of our lives (sharing autobiographies)

Third Sunday hike: The wisdom of nature

Fourth Sunday focus: The wisdom of Sabbath, Jubilee and Shalom (learning about this wisdom more deeply, and sharing about how we are living our community practices)

Fifth Sunday focus: As the Spirit guides

 

(Loving):  We practice another skill of loving, “responding to needs,” in order to strengthen the bonds of community before we go our separate way, through

 

Communal prayer for the needs of the people gathered and others.

 

Living:  We gather up, bring to mind, name, ingest, embody what we have received that leads us more fully into untamable, resurrection life!  This is manna.  This is bread for the journey.  This is the body of Christ.  This is enough for everyone.  This is the already within the not yet.  This is the dream of God. 

 

 “Communion” ritual, drumming, dancing, peace