Dear Earthlings,
Please join us Sunday, November 22st, 5 pm PST on Zoom for a worship service including a theater improv of a virtual Thanksgiving Feast! Please bring your imaginations. You are invited to gift us with your favorite dish to share. We will imagine, as if, we are sitting around a beautiful table and we will share our favorite foods and what we are grateful for, lighting candles sn offering prayers. Please look on this website to know what indigenous people lived on the land you are currently, zooming in from, as we honor native indigenous people www.native-land.ca.
Please bring a small amount of any kind of oil for an anointing ritual, a small amount of water and soil. This can be a small glass of water from your kitchen sink and a small tea spoon from a houseplant or a handful of soil from your garden. We invite you to begin an altar near your computer to be used for the rest of 2020 and through the season of Advent for our weekly Zoom worship. For Advent this year, we invite you celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's right to vote and ask that you wear either all white or something white as we honor all the women who worked to assure women's right to vote!
The Gospel of Mother Earth My name is Mother Earth and I was born four and a half billion years ago. I am your Mother and all creatures here on our common home are my children. God is my Mother just like God is your Mother. I am also like Mother Mary who conceives you with God and gives birth to the baby Jesus in love, nurses him in love, cares for him in love. Before you were born, you were loved, now you are loved, and God will love us all always. That’s the Good News of my Gospel. Like the prophet, Jesus, I come also to give you a message of God's love. As you know the world is overwhelmed by pandemic, poverty, climate catastrophe, war, nuclear weapons, greed, selfishness and I’m sorry for it is painful to grow up. I want you to grow up my dear family. It is time to see with your heart and imagination not just your brain and eyes. What you have done to me you have also done to women and their children, as well as to poor people, people of color and all those who are the least of these. Jesus, like me, shared that it is time for the human family to grow up and take care of those who are hungry, strangers, ill, homeless and in prison, but my dear family, please now it does not stop there it is all the creatures here in our family, the cows and cats, peacocks and pansies, whales and wild flowers all the gorgeous plants and animals and life forms in the soil, air, water, fire and don’t forget the angles and archangels and spiritual beings you cannot see now. I HAVE FEELINGS, we all have feelings. This you can know and respond to in love when you get your prescription filled for your eyes are not seeing clearly. Remember to play games with one another and create beauty with your new glasses for that is what will help give you 20/20 vision also. You are destroying our common home, my human family. You forgot that what you do to me, your Mother, you do to yourself as well for we are all interconnected. We are one family my dear ones, and when you try to leave some out, you become deprived and depraved. I weep in hurricanes, oceans filled with tears. You act with no feelings about our feelings. Too often you poison our water, soil and air. I can’t breathe! You choke us with your lack of feelings and we are dying in huge numbers during this pandemic. Please help me, help you. Don’t you see, what you do to me you do to yourself? My gift to you this Advent 2020 is a new pair of glasses for you need a new prescription. Stop looking at the surface, go deeper, see with your imagination and your heart. Yes, I know it hurts to see the deeper truth but there are also realms of great beauty that you cannot see without these new imagination glasses. Out of crisis and labor pains come new birth. I beg you, this Christmas go with Mary and Joseph on a journey to safety guided by your dreams for it will take you to a new way of life. You will be safe with the Holy Family in the barn. You will begin to imagine how to create a new life that is born in love, when you begin to be more interested in others. The Angels and Holy Family, the cats and cows, donkeys and sheep have so much to teach you. All is created in love my family. God the Mother, the Mother of God, Mary and Jesus in the barn, need your help to bring a new way of life to birth. Prepare yourselves. It is time to pray, to ask God for help and to learn LaMaze from Grandmother Ann, Jesus's Grandmother. Pregnancy and labor are dangerous, you cannot do it alone. Remember to breath and pray and ask God for help. I am here also, for God is in me and I am in God. If there is a nuclear winter, God and I will continue just be set back a few million years. Remember you were made in love, you are love, you are born to learn to love. This is the Gospel Good News from me your Mother Earth. May you wear your new imagination glasses in love.
Nov. 29th Rev. Natalie Shiras will share stories of her anti racism work and we will explore a more truthful story of the genocide of the Native Americans as a part of the American Thanksgiving story. All worship services close with DANCING at the Mary Magdalene Cafe! Please bring scarves to wave. Save the Date New Year's Eve alcohal free dream sharing and dance party on Zoom. 5 pm PST!
Church for Our Common Home's new address is 15435 Strong Road, Dallas, Oregon 97338. We are less than a 30 minute drive from Salem, Oregon and about an hour plus south of Portland. Our barn now houses an art gallery space. and is hanging art made from dreams in the Dream Art Gallery as well as children's art in the Children's EartH Art Gallery! Large colorful rugs on the ground and wide open space allow us to dance and sit 6 feet away from one another with lots of fresh air.
Sending love, Bonnie
Rev. Bonnie Tarwater Minister Church for Our Common Home