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River Flow Grünewald Guild Summer Program 2018 Every Riven Thing -Christian Wiman, adapted by Vonda God goes, belonging to every riven thing God’s made sing God’s being simply by being the thing it is: stone and tree and sky, one who sees and sings and wonders why God goes. Belonging, to every riven thing God’s made, means a storm of peace. Think of the atoms inside the stone. Think of the one who sits alone trying to will oneself into a stillness where God goes belonging. To every riven thing God’s made there is given one shade shaped exactly to the thing itself: under the tree a darker tree; under the one the only one to see God goes belonging to every riven thing. God’s made the things that bring God near, made the mind that makes God go. A part of what one knows, apart from what one knows, God goes belonging to every riven thing God’s made. Sunday Welcome Vespers Introductions Orientation Litany of Welcome by Laurie Rudel At some point we named a desire to step away from our usual routine. Because of that desire we made the journey to this place, a place set aside for the soul purpose of creativity and companionship, of learning and rest. And so it is that we come now — to attend to the ebb and flow of our energy; to listen for the voice of the river; to be refreshed in body and mind, heart and soul. We come — to be nourished by good food, to play and pray with dear companions, and to walk with one another in gentleness and in humility. May each day of our time together be filled with unexpected grace. May our times of frustration or doubt find a productive state of ease. And may the core of our gathering be rooted in the never-ending flow of gratitude, blessing, and love. “Every Riven Thing” Meditation Evening Blessing: May you rest well, trusting that the Holy One, of which you are a part, holds you and all together. Amen.

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River Flow Grünewald Guild Summer Program 2018

Every Riven Thing -Christian Wiman, adapted by Vonda

God goes, belonging to every riven thing God’s made sing God’s being simply by being the thing it is: stone and tree and sky, one who sees and sings and wonders why

God goes. Belonging, to every riven thing God’s made, means a storm of peace. Think of the atoms inside the stone. Think of the one who sits alone trying to will oneself into a stillness where

God goes belonging. To every riven thing God’s made there is given one shade shaped exactly to the thing itself: under the tree a darker tree; under the one the only one to see

God goes belonging to every riven thing. God’s made the things that bring God near, made the mind that makes God go. A part of what one knows, apart from what one knows, God goes belonging to every riven thing God’s made.

Sunday Welcome Vespers Introductions

Orientation Litany of Welcome by Laurie Rudel At some point

we named a desire to step away from our usual routine.

Because of that desire we made the journey to this place,

a place set aside for the soul purpose of creativity and companionship, of learning and rest.

And so it is that we come now — to attend to the ebb and flow of our energy; to listen for the voice of the river; to be refreshed in body and mind, heart and soul.

We come — to be nourished by good food, to play and pray with dear companions, and to walk with one another in gentleness and in humility. May each day of our time together be filled with unexpected grace. May our times of frustration or doubt find a productive state of ease. And may the core of our gathering be rooted in the never-ending flow of gratitude, blessing, and love. “Every Riven Thing” Meditation

Evening Blessing: May you rest well, trusting that the Holy One, of which you are a part, holds you and all together. Amen.

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Monday Matins

They come singly, the little streams, Out of their solitude. They bear In their rough fall a spate of gleams That glance and dance in morning air.

They come singly, and coming go Ever downward toward the river Into whose dark abiding flow They come, now quieted, together.

In dark they mingle and are made At one with light in highest flood Embodied and inhabited, The budded branch as red as blood.

~Wendell Berry

Wisdom Chant by Darlene Franz The Earth is full,

full of your goodness. The earth is full, full of you.

Your goodness fills the whole earth. Artist Talk – Where is the current pulling us into new and undiscovered possibilities?

Announcements for the Day Sending Blessing (Hafiz 1320-1389)

We are all great rivers flowing to their end. Swirling inside us is the silt of ages and creatures and lands and rain that has fallen for millions of years. All this makes us cloudy with mud, unable to see God. As we struggle for clarity and the open sky, the Lord keeps saying the same thing: Come to me now and be blessed, Come.

Monday Vespers at the Bridge

In water that departs forever and forever returns,

we experience eternity. ~Mary Oliver

Message at the Bridge Looking Upriver – Hope fills us with the strength to stay present, to abide in the flow of the Mercy no matter what storms assail us.

Looking Downriver – It is entered always and only through surrender; that is, through the willingness to let go of everything we are presently clinging to.

Turning as a Group toward the Center – And yet when we enter it, it enters us and fills us with its own life–a quiet strength beyond anything we have ever known. ~Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope Wisdom Chant by Darlene Franz

The Earth is full, full of your goodness.

The earth is full, full of you. Your goodness fills the whole earth.

Evening Blessing by James Weldon Johnson, 1921 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might led us into the light; Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Amen.

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Tuesday Matins

Let the seed of freedom awake and flourish, let the deep roots nourish, let the tall stalks rise.

O healing river, send down your waters, O healing river, from out of the skies.

~Fran Minkoff

Song: “Oh, Healing River” - Rachel Kurtz

Artist Talk: How can we invite the waters of healing to flow abundantly within us and through us?

Announcements for the Day

Sending Prayer: Light, golden light fresh from the source. Colors, creation’s colors Calling our senses. Life, life in its oneness Life in its manifold oneness All from you. You are the Sun from whom the morning shines. You are the River in whom each life-form flows. Each face, each race Each cell within our ever-living soul. This new day we greet You.

-from Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace by John Philip Newell

Tuesday Vespers Song: One by One

One by one, everyone comes to remember We’re healing the world one heart at a time.

Candle-Lighting Prayer:

Deep Peace of the running wave, and the cleansing of the waters. Deep Peace of the flowing air, and the clearing of the skies. Deep Peace of the soft rain, and the shelter of friendship. Deep Peace of shining stars, and the memory of timeless beginnings. Deep Peace of the quiet earth, and the kinship of all creatures. Deep Peace of the gentle night, and the warm hearth of family. Deep Peace of the ancient stones, and the tenacity of life. To the terrors of the night, and the troubles of your day… < Candles can be added with your concerns spoken aloud or whispered in your heart. >

Your healing come, Grant us all deep peace.

River Flow Meditation Video

Evening Blessing: Like roots below the surface, drinking in water—may you take into your body, your soul, the life-giving nourishment of sleep, and sink into the deep rest of God’s peace. Amen.

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Wednesday Matins

Bathe yourself in the ocean of matter; plunge into it where it is deepest and most violent;

struggle in its currents and drink of its waters. For it cradled you long ago

in your preconscious existence; and it is that ocean that will raise you up to God.

--Teilhard de Chardin Song: “If Not Now” – Carrie Newcomer

Artist Talk – Where are we called to stand in firm resistance against powerful currents and turbulence? Announcements for the Day Community Litany: No matter the outcome of political machinations and the strivings of empire, there is a quiet stream of loving resistance that values the true riches of the Kingdom of God— the poor, the vulnerable, the oppressed, the marginalized. It is the way that leads to Life. ~Ellen Haroutunian

Wednesday Visio Divina Vespers

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs. ~Theodore Roethke

I’ve Known Rivers by Langston Hughes

I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Visio Divina with Sarah Jane

Evening Blessing: As the moon traces its light across the surface of water, as star-fire pricks the blanket of night, so may God’s love and light shine in your heart and in your dreaming. Amen.

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Thursday Matins

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day

is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Song by Gail Ransom, Worship Jam: All things are in God

and God is in all things. (repeat) Light of light, Sound of sound

Love flows through and all around.

Artist Talk – How do we maintain the stamina to continue pouring ourselves out over time?

Announcements for the Day

All things come from you, O God, And to you we return. All things emerge in your great river of life And into you we vanish again. At the beginning of this day we wake Not as separate streams But as countless currents in a single flow The flow of this day’s dawning The flow of this day’s delight The flow of this day’s sorrows Your flow, O God, In the twistings and turning of this new day.

-from Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace by John Philip Newell

Thursday Labyrinth Vespers

A Symphony of Paths by Tamisha Tyler

Gravel cries out underfoot a rhythmic percussion

it is beaten down with each step but in its cry, I hear the heartbeat of God

it is the rhythm to which my life has been orchestrated

in a 3 by 4 measure so as to always keep me on my toes

I too find myself in the cry of this gravel like the sound of the African Drum

Sending word of celebration "Come," it says

"let us feast." Song: Labyrinth Walk by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan, adapted by Vonda Labyrinth walk, be our direction Nourish us on the way

One ancient path, river to mountain Home is the journey

Guided by steps, stirred deep within Into the mystery

Nothing but now, sleeper awake Flow with the river

Weave circle in, weave circle out Web of creation Labyrinth Talk Community Labyrinth Walk

Blessing at the Center

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Friday Matins

What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again.

The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience.

Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you are somewhere in it

and it will never end until all ends. ~Mary Oliver

“Poetry at the River Clarion” by Mary Oliver

Artist Talk – What is your unfinishable work?

Announcements for the Day

All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken by Rainer Maria Rilke

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. If this is arrogant, God, forgive me, but this is what I need to say. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea.

Friday Vespers at the Finisterre As timely as a river God’s timeless life passes into this world. It passes through bodies, giving life, and past them, giving death. The secret fish leaps up into the light and is again darkened. The sun comes from the dark, it lights the always passing river, shines on the great-branched tree, and goes. Longing and dark, we are completely filled with breath of love, in us forever incomplete. ~Wendell Berry

Finisterre Blessing by Liv Larson Andrews

O God who is, who was, and who ever shall be,

we ask your blessing upon this place. In your mystery, draw near to us here.

Come in the four winds. Cross this circle and unsettle us.

Bless you, O Wind.

Come in the rushing water. Cleanse, refresh and sustain us.

Bless you, O Water.

Come in the living land, terre firme. Root us in holy love.

Bless you, O Land.

Come, O God, in the passage of time, in sun, moon and stars, in the rolling years.

Weave our sacred memories into your adventurous future.

Bless you, O Time.

Finally, bless all created things and co-creators that visit this ridge.

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Saturday Celebration Opening Song: River of Life I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me Makes the lame to walk and the blind to see Opens prison doors, sets the captives free I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me

Spring up, oh well, within my soul Spring up, oh well, and make me whole Spring up, oh well, and give to me That life abundantly! Morning Blessing: Psalm 104 — adapted from Psalms for Praying by Nan C. Merrill

Praise the Creator of the Universe! Bless the Heart of my heart, O my soul!

You set the earth on its foundations, strong & secure, You covered it with the deep, like a garment, with many waters that life might come forth.

At your word, the waters divided, becoming rivers and lakes and mighty oceans.

You created springs to flow into the valleys; they flow between the hills, giving drink to every creature of the field, quenching their thirst as your Living Water quenches ours.

We look to the seas, great and wide, which teem with life innumerable . . . O, that we might receive your gifts, taking only what is needed with grateful hearts.

I will abandon myself into your hands as long as I live; I will sing praise to You as long as I have breath.

Praise the Creator of the Universe! Bless the Heart of my heart, O my soul!

What were your experiences with River Flow this week? Describe a fluid moment that surrendered you to mystery.

Reflection

Your Week’s Video

Sharing of the Community’s Creative Gifts

Prayers of the People Litany of Departure by Laurie Rudel

Having gathered together in this place, we give thanks for the gift of rest and play, for the creative flow of learning and work, and for companions who gladden our hearts.

Having gathered together in this place, we give thanks: for the land and for the river— for our teachers— for those who nourished our bodies with good food— for those who washed our pots and pans and plates and cups— and for those who prepared for us spaces to create and places to rest.

And having gathered together in this place, we now make ready to take our leave. Circle of Grace Blessing: (by Jan Richardson) In the leaving, In the letting go, Let there be this To hold onto at the last:

The enduring of love, The persisting of hope, The remembering of joy, The offering of gratitude, The receiving of grace, The blessing of peace.

Sharing the Peace

Celebration Brunch