Good morning, Prairiewoods Family!
We are going virtual with our weekly Tuesday Prayer Experience Series. Please consider joining us via Zoom this Tuesday, March 31, from 11:30 a.m.–noon, as well as subsequent Tuesdays for the time being. This series offers an opportunity for us to pray together. We are blessed with many ways to pray, ranging from songful prayer, contemplative prayer, silent meditation, and body prayers such as walking the labyrinth. Join us for this ongoing prayer series and experience the joys of prayer and meditation together.
A free-will donation is appreciated and can be mailed to Prairiewoods (120 E Boyson Rd, Hiawatha, IA 52233) or by calling our main office at 319-395-6700 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Friday.
This series is facilitated by Angie Pierce Jennings, Emelia Sautter and other Prairiewoods friends.
Join us each Tuesday from 11:30 a.m.–noon via Zoom as we pray together in this season of spring!
If you don’t already have it, click here to download Zoom.
Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m., click here to join the Zoom meeting. If prompted, enter meeting ID 739 543 244 and password 042717.
In the meantime, I share with you words on stillness from our beloved Bayo Akomolafe, Spirituality in the 21st Century presenter in 2019:
“In stillness, worlds churn. If you have looked hard at the manner of things, if you have surveyed the troubles of our time, and cannot discover a way forward, do not despair. Do better. Grieve: mount an altar to the sensuous feelings of loss that swim through you. In the stinging fumes that redden the eyes, you might partly recover a clear vision of where to go. You might come to see that forward movement is no longer possible in these moments, and that the way to go was never forward anyway – but awk-ward: into the blackness of catacombs, into the shadows of sanctuary, into the riven cracks signed with the pen of the trickster, into the heat of compost, into the position of a prostrated man who knows that when the storm roars the thing to do is to be still. In that stillness, entire worlds churn.”
Much love,
—Emelia Sautter, Prairiewoods ecospirituality coordinator