Breathing Exercises

Highlights from the meeting:

1. Readings from Genesis, Exodus, and a telling of part of the Joshua cycle (Josh 3.5: “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”)

2. Arvo Part laying the Mood behind the Word (De Profundis, Lamentate-Stridendo, Fratres, Summa) and K’naan closing out the night (In The Beginning, loud).

3. Reviewing several word-pictures that came through praying people over the last year and a half while this community was still a gleam in God’s eyes. Tonight we took ownership of some good revelation.

4. Art.

This from Gwen (drawn during the scripture readings): The World, in the beginning (waters above and below … see it?)

This from Darla: her drawing of a vision/dream that unfolded over a month.

Darla’s notes: “This image was a simple picture — first a blank white canvas and later changed to a stack of white paper. The stack glowed blue with an electric energy and floated. This paper was imbued with ‘privilege’ and ‘responsibility’. The crisp paper beckoned to be written on. It wanted to be used. Words that came to mind while looking at the stack: ‘God-made’, ‘freedom’, ‘expectant’. I saw the sign of the paper as a ‘green light’ for us all to move forward in creating a new community. God is giving us a ‘foundation’ (the blank stack of paper) in which to begin.”