Wind Combed Linen

First, I wish you a blessed Holy Week.

Lent breaks open to Easter. Seeds break open into the life they contain and contains them. Many seeds must go through a season of cold, soil acidity, or passage through an animal, in order to crack open in the light. The seed of our lives needs seasons of preparation, wandering, purification, exile, and wilderness, to crack open into the light, and wind blowing with a new quality of life in creation.

the chestnuts are germinating well!

Next: the spring quarterly newsletter for Boat and Table Workshop is available.

I’ve addressed hopes for 2021, and workshop offerings for spring and summer. I’m planning two spring and summer book groups for you plant lovers and craftspeople.

And I ask your support for the blog and the ongoing offerings at the Boat and Table Workshop. A recurring donation link on the welcome page makes it easier!

If you are in a financial position to offer a pledge of support, please consider a gift to support the online workshop hospitality, classes and other offerings for 2021.

With your help and as the Spirit gives leave, I hope to offer a place online, and soon enough in-person, for practical learning and spiritual community.

I’d like to find ways to connect people to support one another in their practice this year. Classes, prayer and book groups are one way we can do this

Or, Would you appreciate the enouragement, insight and company of a group that keeps a pattern of spiritual practice, or follows a ‘rule of life’? Let me know.

spring, linen fiber combed by winter wind

Palm Sunday begins a week of prayer and devotion. The story of Jesus suffering and death includes this among other details about how his family and disciples cared for his body:

And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mark 15:46

The three days that precede the early morning hours of Easter Sunday are kept by many Christians as an ongoing service of prayer that include the celebration of the Eucharist and the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday, carrying, embracing, beholding, praying before the corss on Good Friday, and the ‘Great Vigil of Easter’ on Saturday Night. The Great Vigil is liturgical prayer of unique power and piercing beauty, and often includes readings from from the whole of scripture. This telling the story of salvation in reading and song, is accompanied by the celebration of the Eucharist, and often baptisms.

I hope that you can find a way to enter the spirit and the rhythm of these days, and find a new sense of peaceful trust in resurrection life.