Please come walk the Goddess Ariadne Snake Labyrinth on New Years Eve!

Dear Friends,

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Please join us New Years Eve, 6-9 pm as we journey to confront our deepest fears and grief. We will ask; What needs to be slain and grieved within us in order to begin creative work in the New Year? We will ask and explore these questions in prayer, at our new Wailing Wall, as well as in walking the snake labyrinth in candle light, music and dancing, dream sharing and incubation, art making and a fire ritual. We will begin at the Wailing Wall where we will write and leave prayers to God in the tradition of the ancient Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. We will share the story of Ariadne the Greek Goddess of the labyrinth, the snake goddess, and tell her story of falling in love with the hero Theseus. Ariadne however is also a heroine in this tale for it is the two working together that enable them to conquer what has been undoable by others. She saves Theseus who has to journey into the labyrinth to slay the monster, but because of the red thread she gives him he finds his way back to her. Ariadna means 'holy one' and this Cretan Princess who was the daughter of King Minos and the daughter of the moon-goddess Pasiphae later is dumped by Theseus and then marries Dionysus. She is a goddess who does not give up no matter how difficult the life challenges she faces.

Symbolically we have inner monsters that we must symbolically slay. As we journey in and out of the labyrinth, guided by the spirit of partnership of Theseus and Ariadne, we will ask for her genius to help us find simple solutions and his courage and strength to slay our inner demons. Many Greek myths tell stories of a hero who can only triumph over challenges with the help of a woman. There is an inner partnership of the divine feminine and the divine masculine we all need in the New Year. "The harder the journey, the more and the tougher obstacles in his/her path, the more the initiate will be transformed and acquire a new self in the course of the voyage of initiation." Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, Chevailer and Gheerbrant Regardless of the personal and collective dangers we now face with climate and ecological catastrophe we must never give up and have faith that when we face the truth of present dangers we will rise to the occasion especially as we work in partnership with others.

The photo below is a statue of a woman holding two snakes from the Greek island of Crete. It is a Minoan sculpture from about 1500 BC. In Greek religion and mythology and in many ancient cultures the snake was a symbol of wisdom and fertility. Come join us in a beautiful and rich evening of wisdom. Come walk the snake labyrinth as we explore many wisdom traditions from the ancient world to find a way when there seems to be no way. No alcohol will be served and we ask for you to please bring finger foods to share. Please call with any questions.

Sending love always,

Bonnie

New Year’s Eve Dec. 31 6-9 pm no alcohol, dream sharing, dream incubation, guided mediation, fire ritual, walking the snake labyrinth, with music and candle light and NEW WAILING WALL., please bring finger foods.

Upcoming invitations:

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck.

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

MLK All People’s Breakfast January 21th, 9-12 noon $75 join Walt and Bonnie buy tickets www.alliancesd.org/all-peoples-celebration-sponsorship

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

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Christmas and New Year's Blessings

Dear Friends,

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When I was six years old I had a vision in the underground tomb of Mother Mary, in Jerusalem at the Dormition Abbey. A dead woman came to life, a sleeping woman woke up, a wooden woman turned to flesh. This God experience has been a guiding metaphor for my life and ministry. The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Black Madonna of the Americas, and the event of her asking and receiving a church built in her honor is alive, awake and real again. The divine feminine face of God is encouraging us to build her a church dedicated to the earth called, Church for Our Common Home. We ask you to help us find a donation of land to build an artist church to pray for the earth. Our Common Home Counseling Center currently funds the ministry of the church with Walt’s work as a marriage and family therapist and Bonnie’s work as a pastoral counselor and spiritual director.

Walt and I are grateful for you, our friends, colleagues and family, and we want to share the good news that this past year, we were granted a nonprofit 501C3 tax status for Our Common Home, a church and counseling center. Although we are not accustomed to asking people for money, the reality is that we depend on tax deductible donations in order to keep Church for Our Common Home alive. If you don’t have money to donate, or don’t wish to donate, we understand and ask that you hold the church in your heart and prayers. We hold you in our hearts and prayers and have enclosed an envelope for you to send us your prayer requests. Please connect us to people who you may know who have land they would like to donate and or individuals and/or organization who may be interested in collaborating with us.

 Church for Our Common Home is dedicated to the Earth, the Divine Feminine and the Arts. We worship every Sunday at 5 pm, and celebrate communion with a vegetarian pot luck following worship. This last summer the Holy Spirit called us to take our worship services to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. We do this to save ourselves, for to do nothing is to be in collusion with inhumanity. For six consecutive weeks we made a powerful, prayerful protest to the separation of children from their parents at the border and the refugee crisis caused by our country. Due to the technological genius of Anna Smith, our new Director of Media Communications, we are now able to sometimes offer worship services and other programs on live stream on our church web site. We are committed to experimenting with untraditional ways of doing church and creating beloved community with all earthlings on planet earth.  

We are in the sixth extinction of life on earth, one caused by humans, and it is past time we wake up and tell the truth about the root causes of economic greed and power over violence that has caused ecologic catastrophes, wars and resulting humanitarian crisis. There are 68 million refugees, one in every one hundred people on the planet, half who are under the age of eighteen years.

Our vision includes growing our own food and particularly welcoming children and elders as we explore an intentional intergenerational community. Currently, our programs include, Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina (a Benediction reading, prayer and meditation on scripture) regular worship in nature, Taize chanting worship, Prayer and Healing Services, dream groups, newsletter articles and updates, (please sign up on the church website) book groups, and special programs like our upcoming annual alcohol free celebration on New Year’s Eve December 31, 6-9 pm with art making, dream sharing and incubation, a fire ritual, prayers for the 150-200 species of animals who go extinct every twenty four hours at our new Wailing Wall, and walking the snake labyrinth with music and candle light. This past year we participated in two non-violent civil disobedience actions and several protests and marches. A group of us went on a field trip to Salvation Mountain, three of us went to a week and a half workshop in Temecula on how to build a straw bale ecologic house/church, and we had a booth at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, Canada. We worked with San Diego 350.org and First UU Church of San Diego and put on an Earth Day weekend extravaganza with a program on the ‘Reunion of Science and Religion’ with the preeminent climate scientist, Dr. Ramanathan, and Dr. John B. Cobb. Jr. the environmentalist, theologian and philosopher in an intergenerational event with live music and dancing, a reception with local earth justice organizations and were gifted with the Sheikh’s vegetarian community meal or Langar. We give special thanks to Dr. Cobb who was the initial inspiration of our church and the first supporter.

Special thanks to the Unitarian Universalist community who has welcomed me back and I am enjoying serving as the Vice President of the Board of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Community Ministers. Dr. Cobb has recently invited me to write three chapters in his current book about ‘Ecologic Civilization‘ and I am honored and thrilled! Our beloved granddaughter Laina joins us sometimes for Sunday worship and it is as a grandmother that I am called to do whatever I am able to do, to create safe, sustainable and loving community for a very uncertain and dangerous future our children and grandchildren are inheriting. Young people are voicing their concerns prophetically and I invite you to be inspired by fifteen year old, Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg on YouTube. She and Laina give us hope for our future. Please stay in touch and send us news of what you are up to and how Church for Our Common Home can support you in the New Year.

Love and blessings always,

Sending love always,

Bonnie

Dear God, You who fill us with courage to stand up to Empire, bless our journey as we work to save our common home Mother Earth during the current sixth extinction of life on earth, the only one created by us humans. You who are the love dance between mother and child, friends and lovers, music and motion, color and light, planets and stars, egg and sperm, you who are the egg that opens graciously and loves the creative force of sperm into transformation and miraculous new life—you Holy Mama, God of Love, Spirit, you who we call by many names, we give thanks for you and the sacredness of all nature that is alive. You who are up and down, in and out and in-between, you who are amidst our interspecies web of life, we give thanks for your unspeakable beauty and vastness. We are in awe and give thanks for our part of your creation.  We come this Christmas to stand in solidarity with Jesus and the holy family, with the animals, angels, shepherds, wise men and all those who are humble, homeless, holy and vulnerable. We hear your call to live and work in solidarity for justice and love. Fill us with your love and mercy in a world filled with cruelty and lies and teach us to love our enemies. Help us for we often feel overwhelmed and afraid. Save us from our ignorance and arrogance, wake us up to the suffering of human and nonhuman animals and plants. Inspire us to stop thinking and acting small, but to use our crisis as an invitation for bold genius. We give thanks for the inspiration of the story of Christmas and the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene that open our hearts.  May the Christ-Sophia child be born within us this Christmas morning. We ask you for the blessings of a pure heart. Teach us to see with our hearts in the coming New Year. Amen

Photo above under earth photo is of a human sperm cell that  measures roughly about 0.002 inches and cannot be seen with the human eye, and a human egg which is  about 30 times bigger and is about  the size of a seed that can be seen with the naked eye.

“’A myriad of sperm collaborate to place a singlesperm before the egg, which them opens –volitionally—rather than simply being battered or overwhelmed...…The egg opens to a single sperm,’    She (Nancy Denman, a research embryologist) explained,’ For almost twenty four hours there is stillness. Then all of a sudden, the egg starts vibrating violently. “Ignition!!! We all call it.”’ Then she adds parenthetically, ‘Those of us of a more religious bent might be inclined to describe it as “the descent of the Spirit.””  

Love is the Answer, What is the Questions?

by Cynthia Bourgeault.

New Year’s Eve Dec. 31 6-9 pm no alcohol, dream sharing, dream incubation, guided mediation, fire ritual, walking the snake labyrinth, with music and candle light and NEW WAILING WALL., please bring finger foods.

Upcoming invitations:

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice, every Wednesday 10 am.

Monthly Taize Chanting service first Sunday of every month

Beach candle light worship every second Sunday at Torrey Pines State Park at 5 pm. It gets cold and dark so please dress warmly.

Healing Service third Sunday worship at 5 pm.

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Committee on Ministry meeting every third Sunday evening after church and pot luck.

Webinar with Environmental Justice Practitioners Network co-sponsored by First UU Church and Church for Our Common Home, once a month call Jamie Long (619) 436-9435.  

MLK All People’s Breakfast January 21th, 9-12 noon $75 join Walt and Bonnie buy tickets www.alliancesd.org/all-peoples-celebration-sponsorship

New live stream worship on church web site, some Sunday’s 5 pm (PST) Churchforourcommonhome.com More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: Addiction Issues, PTSD, Individual and Group Therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

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Climate March this Saturday, Prayers at 8:30 am and March at 10 am

Dear Friends,

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Please join us this Saturday for the 350.org Climate March, at the Civic Center, downtown San Diego, 8:30 am for a prayer service and 10 am to march to the Embarcadero Center, where we will have a church table. Church for Our Common Home will be easy to find for at the head of our procession will be a flower girl sprinkling flower petals on the path of our Giant Rod Puppet Mother Earth.

We will have a flower girl who will be sprinkling flowers on Mother Earth's path during the march for we need to make amends for all the ways we have harmed her and begin to treat her with the love she needs. Please call or text Bonnie if you want to find us and walk with us! (858) 248-5123. We will be giving away, copies of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and selling Church for Our Common Home T Shirts with new born baby, children and adult sizes.

Please check out new video about church.

Please share with your friends.

Sunday, September 9 we are beginning a new book group, Jesus Abba, by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. at 3 pm before worship at 5 pm. We will meet every 2nd and 4th Sunday at 3 pm for book group.

This Sunday and the second Sunday of every month we worship at Torrey Pines State Park Beach and do prayer prostrations on the sand.Call for more info. (858) 248-5123.

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Straw Bale workshop first week in October. Join Bonnie, Dan and Jamie in Temecula. We work with a group to build a straw bale structure and they in turn will come help us build our church!

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice with a change of time beginning in September we will meet the 2nd and 4th Sunday from 3:30 -4:30 pm.

 

1st Sunday of every month, 5 pm Taize Chanting service

2nd Sunday, 5 pm y worship with prostration prayers at Torrey Pines State Park Beach every at main entrance

3rd Sunday 5 pm Prayer and Healing Service

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

Worlds Parliament of Religion in Toronto Nov 1-7, 2018, our church will have a booth.

Please call Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit or prayers. (858) 248-5123

Sunday worship soon on live stream on

the Church for Our Common Home web site.

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services: addiction issues, PTSD, individual and group therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.Contact us now!

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

God I am passionately in love with you and all your creatures

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Solomon's Song of Songs. "Oh, kiss me, touch me with your lips; your love tastes better than any wine. You smell better that any perfume; even the sound of your name smells sweet-- no wonder they all love you!.....For your love is better than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you. Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you..... Do you have a shady place where you rest in the heat of day? I want you; I don't want to spend all day wandering around among your friends, wearing all these clothes in the heat of day....Arise and come, my pretty darling, come away with me!......Winds of the south and winds of the north, wake up and blow now: breathe through my garden, drive him mad with my fragrance, draw him into my garden; let his tongue stop its talking, let him taste my choice fruits..... Oh, you daughters of Jerusalem, I swear to you-- if you find my lover tell him-- Tell him what? Tell him I am dizzy in love. ......I came to my lover hungering, as he came to me.........." Song of Songs, 1:1-3, 7, 2:13b, 4:16, 5:8, 6:3

The Inclusive Bible, the First Egalitarian Translation

Dear Friends, August 31, 2018

People who are depressed are lonely, by definition. They feel separate and alienated. They are lonely for other people and community, but modern people are also often alienated from the natural world and God. Together, humans and non human, plants and animals are an organic, relational, interconnected whole. Many of us have been brainwashed by what I would call an insane Godless world view. Most of us live in cities surrounded by freeways and concrete and are deprived of relating to the natural world. Not having regular intimacy with nature may feel like a lack of connection to God for nature is God in the sense that God rushes through all natural life. Many of us experience God in nature and yearn to be close to God in nature. The truth is that we are all interrelated and are interwoven in an erotic aliveness, created and sustained by God's love. Our purpose is to love and be loved, but not just people, we are here in order to love God and all of God's creatures.

The image above of the woman and lion in a tender embrace touches me as it transports me to the world of the imagination and the realm of story or fairy tales. We see a symbolic holy union of the divine feminine and the divine masculine in this image, which invites us to imagine a new hopeful future, "where they live happily ever after." Not merely an image that amphromoriphizing the lion to be like a human, this image invites us I think to reconnect to all that is seperate within us. This image invites us to enter the truth that we are an interspecies creation on earth, potentially in loving partnership with all God's creatures.

I invite you to contemplate this image as a metaphor rich in spiritual nourishment. Just as we are alienated from the natural world, many of us are also alienated from the world of metaphor and imagination and may need to be reminded of the ground rules or guidelines. God is not a mother hen, but God is like a mother hen. God is not male or female, but God is like the male and female in a loving embrace like in the image above. God is not only in humans, God is in all sacred life and is the interrelatedness of all species of animals and life forms in the universe. This depiction of inter species relationship transcends the concreteness of heterosexuality, homosexuality etc. Part of our depression and loneliness comes from our autistic like state due to having been starved of beautiful metaphors and stories in a world out of balance by idolizing analytical and rational thinking. Estrangement from God is deeply painful and depressing. One way of reconnecting with God for me has been by contemplating provocative images of God.

Every Sunday at Church for Our Common Home we say prayers of confession for, "the 150-200 species of plants, insects, birds and mammals who become extinct every 24 hours." This genocide is due to a world view and behaviors that are out of balance. Nuclear bombs, climate change, imperialism and war etc. are expression of our being out of balance as a human family. Tolerating and not stopping the death and suffering of the vulnerable comes when our thinking and behavior as a human family that is so out of balance, it is sick.

As we awaken to the genocide of plants and animals our denial and depression is in many finally maturing. We are being called to see the falsehood that tells us that we are separate and causes self-centeredness and depression. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross leads us on the spiritual adventure through the five stages of grief, to acceptance during times of facing death. I experience it as God calling us to transform ourselves from denial and anger, through bargaining, and depression, until we can move into acceptance and love. As Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. says, "What we need is enough ecological catastrophe so that people wake up, and not so much that it is too late." Like people who have had a near death experience and begin to reconnect to the holiness of life and God. When we come to accept the state of the planetary crisis we will have moved from denial, anger, bargaining, depression to acceptance and love. When this happens there is potential for great kundalini like energy of spiritual and physical power of purpose for our human family.

As a parish minister I have witnessed many people in their later years fall passionately in love. Not having hung out with many older people before I was a parish minister, I just did not know this happened. It does, all the time. Senior communities are regular Paten Places of love intrigue, broken hearts and passionate yearnings for intimacy. All living creatures are made in God's image and have energy to dance with other life forms. Just contemplating human bodies and how we were made for sexual loving, which sometimes creates human babies, is so inspiring, it leaves me awe struck.To passionately love another sexually, physically, spiritually, psychologically, intellectually, and in any and all combinations, WOW....Way to go God.... You are an awesome God. "Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance." Abraham Herschel. We were made for a diversity of awesome intimate relationships with other people, as well as communities, the natural world, the world of the imagination and God.

Falling in love with another human being, and erotic human sexual love, is one of life's greatest mysteries and joys. When we are in love we see the beauty not only of our beloved, but of all that is alive everywhere in creation. God is like a passionate lover, who adores and loves us just like the lion and woman in the above image love one another. Most of us can get behind the idea that God is love, but too often we have left out the erotic and passionate reality that is God. Too often our religious communities and churches, our worship and religious stories and rituals are bland and lack erotic passion. Much of Christianity has idolized celibacy historically and told us a story that Jesus was celibate. I don't believe that for a second. I can hear him saying to us today, "I said celebrate, not celibate!" Jesus loved so passionately it changed the world. He loved real people, and all of God's creation. Our reading from the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible for this Sunday, reminds us that Jews in the ancient world like Jesus, understood passionate erotic love as the holiest of the holy.

The love story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene has been left out of the dominant Christian tradition but has lived underground for centuries. Cynthia Bourgeault writes in, T he Meaning of Mary Magdalene that their love for one another was just, "Too Hot To Handle" and so the early church rewrote the story and left Magdalene out. According to some traditions, Jesus and Mary Magdalene loved so deeply that she traveled into the pits of hell with him after the crucifixion. The resurrection for me is a hologram of rich metaphor of many meanings, one being about the passionate love story, between two real people--Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Their love for one another was more powerful than torture and death. Now that is a great love story! Part of facing the planetary catastrophe and turning it into a catalyst for radiant love requires that we recycle our old religious stories whose paint has faded and recycle and repaint our stories with new vibrant, rich, erotic colors of passionate love. Perhaps the new religious story for our time will be a love story between all living creatures on earth, a story that invites us to fall in love with God and all her creatures. May we activate our kundalini sexual passions in order to change our thinking and our behavior to stop killing off full species of animals on a daily basis. If you want to save something - love it.

We are witnessing the 6th extinction of life on earth--the only one created by humans and we need new passionate religious love stories, images, symbols and rituals that will energize and activate our kundalini prajna and life force. It is time to share love stories in rich vivid colors and symbols to inspire our work to save living creatures.

Last week, I was standing in line at Rite Aid Drug Store and while waiting, I looked over the the sale table, which they cleverly and manipulatively place next to the cashier line in order to tempt us to buy stuff we don't need or want. There was an end of summer sale of garden statues, and one caught my eye. It was a gray plastic statue of Mother Mary about one feet tall. I picked her up and immediately smiled and got a warm feeling of love that I is familiar to me when I enter the symbolism of Mother Mary. The statue was Made in China of course, and cost $19.99. Then a statue of Jesus caught my eye. I had no desire to buy him for some reason. I rolled my eyes as I stood there encountering the insanity of capitalism and plastic objects made with child slave labor etc. and how it is destroying our planet. But my psyche was not done with these images and intuitively I knew to pay attention. You need to know that I have many altars to Mother Mary that I have created for decades and they continue to work to heal me. For millions of us, she is a powerful archetypal symbol of the divine feminine too often dishonored and left out, but always the placeholder of God's unconditional love for all her children, especially the most vulnerable ones. Mother Mary images and statues have been a healing "indulgence" for me. I decided our garden would be well served by adding one more MOther Mary statue. Then I noticed a sign that said, Buy One, Get One Free. I thought I don't really want a plastic statue of Jesus on my altar for some reason, but essentially he would be free. I picked Jesus up in my left hand for I am nothing if not a bargain maniac. As I gazed down at the two male and female plastic garden figures it occurred to me, "I can recast this play. Mother Mary can easily be recast as Mary Magdalene, same gender, similar costume.... " There they were in my hands, Jesus and Mary Magdalene the lost bride, the lost divine feminine with her beloved bridegroom, no longer only a mother and son, but a mature woman, a passionate lover, healer and teacher of wisdom who is in love with a real live holy man.

It is rare to find any art work of Jesus and Mary Magdalene where they are at the same eye level. Usually she is way down at his feet either crying or anointing his feet. But as I gazed at these two statues of side by side, Jesus and the lost bride of Christianity, she transformed herself and became an equal partner of Jesus. Right there in Rite Aid, I got swept away in their love story. We need passionate love stories at this dangerous historic time. We need passion and love more than ever before. Here is a photo of the outdoor altar dedicated to the love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the Christ-Sophia.

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We had a worship service last Sunday, at this new outdoor altar and we served a traditional communion service. We ritually took the body and blood of the Christ into our own bodies as Christians have done for centuries. Then we created a new ritual and ate rose petals to symbolically take in the body of Mary Magdalene, the Sophia into our own bodies. We closed with an anointing ritual that marked the holy union of passionate love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the Christ-Sopha within us and in God's creation. Do all of God's creatures yearn to be the beloved of God?

 

In recent years my voracious appetite to study and surround myself with images, stories and rituals about Mother Mary shifted into a yearning to enter the story about Mary Magdalene, often alone in a cave of contemplation. It has shifted again. Today I long to enter the story and symbols of Jesus and Mary Magdalene together in holy union. I still treasure my Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene images and art work and don't plan to give them up, but for me at this stage of my life, I yearn for the holy union between the Christ-Sophia, the divine masculine and divine feminine within myself and made manifest in my relationship and work in the world. Could this be a sign that our planetary emergency has activated the maturing of masculine and feminine energies within us and is getting ready to come together at this stage of our human evolution? Perhaps it means that men and women are open to join in loving partnership and collaboration in order to save our common home, Mother earth together? Emergency can bring out the best in us individually, in couples, and familes and in our communities. This is my prayer.

 

In gratitude and love,

Bonnie

 

Church for Our Common Home News

Please pray for and ask for guidance for Church for Our Common Home. We are asking for two or more acres to build a straw bale ecologic church dedicated to Mother Earth, the Divine Feminine and AWE-- art, wisdom and the earth. Celebrating the beauty of God's creation we will learn to live sustainably and invite other community makers to join us. Inspired by the ecologic community in Findhorn, Scotland who prayed over infertile land which transformed it into fertile land. Similarly, Church for Our common Home is dedicated to the power of prayer and we pray for healing for our Mother Earth. We envision a beautiful setting to build a straw bale church structure in the radically creative nontraditional spirit of Salvation Mountain here in Southern California, as we create new religious stories, symbols and rituals for our time. We are open to collaborating with other groups and individuals as we work to alleviate loneliness and suffering particularly for children and all living creatures caused by our planetary emergency. We are called to create loving community and follow in the footsteps of many Christians and communities before us. Brother Roger is a man who bought a farm outside of Paris and cared for orphans in need of help after WWII and created a loving and thriving spiritual community in Taize, France. But unlike many Christian intentional communities we do not hold up celibacy as necessary to love God more deeply as we celebrate intimate love of all kinds. It is time to prepare for the ecologic disaster as we create a radically loving spirit filled community, together.  

Church News and Upcoming events:

Our 501C-3 nonprofit tax exempt status for church approved! Your gifts to church are tax deductible. 

Straw Bale workshop first week in October. Join Bonnie, Dan and Jamie in Temecula. We work with a group to build a straw bale structure and they in turn will come help us build our church!

Lectio Divina  and Centering Prayer  Contemplation of scriptures for Sunday and Centering Prayer, an ancient Christian contemplative prayer practice with a change of time beginning in September we will meet the 2 nd and 4th Sunday from 3:30 -4:30 pm.

Monthly Taize Chanting service 1st Sunday of every month, 5 pm.

Monthly worship with prostration prayers at Torrey Pines State Park Beach every 2nd Sunday, 5 pm at main entrance

Monthly Prayer and Healing Service third Sunday 5 pm .

Dream Circle every first and third Sunday before worship 3-5 pm.

September 8 th Saturday join the prayers at 8:30 am and march with 350.org at 10 am down town, San Diego at the civic center.

Worlds Parliament of Religion in Toronto Nov 1-7, 2018, our church will have a booth.

Please call Rev. Bonnie if you would like a pastoral visit or prayers. (858) 248-5123

Sunday worship soon on live stream on

the Church for Our Common Home web site.

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services : addiction issues, PTSD, individual and group therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Art Therapies etc.Contact us now!

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

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Holding regular worship every Sunday in July at 5 PM Otay Mesa Detention Center

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June 28, 2018

Church for Our Common Home

Worship services in July 2018 

Sunday’s in July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

 5 pm at the Otay Mesa Detention Center

7488 Calzada De La Fuente, San Diego, CA 92154, on the side walk.

 

Ecumenical and interfaith

July 1, Taize Chanting worship. Please bring musical instruments and easy music will be provided.

 

Rev. Bonnie Tarwater, Affiliate Community Minister  First Unitarian Universalist  Church of SD

All are welcome at God’s table. Finger food pot luck after the service.  

We will gather on the side walk, so please bring folding chairs.

Dream Sharing also offered the 1 st and 3 rd Sunday from 3-5 pm.

 

Also on live stream on Church for Our Common Home Facebook page.

More info call (858) 248-5123

www.churchforourcommonhome.com

 

Calendario de Servicios en Julio de 2018 y posiblemente más.

Los Domingos 1, 8, 15, 22 y 29 de Julio

5:00 pm

En el Centro de Detención de Otay Mesa

7488 Calzada De La Fuente, San Diego, CA 92154, sobre la acera.

Ecuménico e Interreligioso

El 1ero de Julio, Taize Canto de adoración, favor de traer instrumentos musicales y se les proporcionará música sencilla.

Rvdo. Bonnie Tarwater, Ministra de la Comunidad Afiliada Primera Iglesia Unitaria Universalista de SD

Todos son bienvenidos en la mesa de Dios. Tapas de comida después del servicio.

Nos reuniremos en la acera, favor de traer sillas plegables.

Sueños Compartidos también ofrecen el 1er y 3er Domingo de 3 a 5 pm.

También en vivo en la página de Facebook de Church for Our Common Home

Más información llame al (858) 248-5123

www.ChurchForOurCommonHome.com

Our Common Home Counseling Center’s services : addiction issues, PTSD, individual and group therapy, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Honoring, Creative Arts etc.

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com