With-ness

With-ness

December 18, 2016
Rev. Justin Schroeder
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My colleague, the Rev. Phil Lund, recently wrote an Advent blog post, entitled, “Advent: The Season of With-ness.” In the Christian calendar, Advent is observed during the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. Advent is a time of waiting and anticipating the birth of hope and the birth of light, in a world in which the days have shortened and darkness reigns. Advent is a time of being present, of showing up. Who, and what, are we showing up for? And how do we show up, exactly?

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December Worship Theme: Presence
Sufi teacher and scholar, Kabir Helminski, writes “Presence signifies the quality of consciously being here. It is the activation of a higher level of awareness that allows all our other human functions – such as thought, feeling, and action – to be known, developed and harmonized.” Presence is named as awakening, mindfulness, dhyana, or remembrance in other religious traditions. Some might be surprised to discover that repentance, derived from the Greek, metanoia, means to enter the big mind/presence. Common to all the great spiritual traditions is a spiritual philosophy of presence. In this season of advent, of waiting and listening, we will explore and experience Presence, the intersecting places of sense and spirit.

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