Gratitude and Devotion Coda: Service

Holy Mother, in Whom we live, move and have our being, from You all things emerge and unto You all things return.

Beloved, I vow to keep opening my heart to you, to surrender to your love.

Holy Mother, I vow to serve and to celebrate and to reverence Life in all Your forms with authenticity and clarity and energy and joy.

Holy Mother, in Whom we live, move and have our being, from You all things emerge and unto You all things return.

So it is.

Blessed be.

This is my vow of ministry, which I took in 1998, and have repeated – sometimes daily, sometimes going years between voicings – ever since. I’ve been repeating it more often, lately. Since September last year – exactly ten years since I took my vow, in fact – I’ve been a full-time postgraduate student. I was led to it: it is my will, my heart’s desire, and that of the Universe that I be on this path. But, swamped as I have been by assignments and the practicalities of arranging fieldwork, to say nothing of the maintaining family relationships long-distance which the location of my studies has required, I have fallen into thinking that the studying is the point.

It is not.

My purpose is to share peace; my vow is to love and to serve. These are the point. Repeating my vow is helping me to remember that.

And you? What is your purpose? What is your vow?

The Elements of Magic

Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th April, 2009

Eskdalemuir, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

A core class in the Reclaiming tradition

led by flame and Halo

Sadly, this class has had to be cancelled.

New Links

I’ve added some new links to the Weblinks categories (down on the right):

Nick Wilding
I met Nick through the Rural Leadership Programme at Falkland Centre for Stewardship. In addition to being one of the leading lights of the Centre for Human Ecology, he’s an inspiration in the areas of relationship, community, sustainability and just being an all-round decent human being.

Transition Culture
“How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations.” Rob Hopkins’ website is full of tips and information about the Transition Movement which is growing pace around the world

Resilience
“This blog’s purpose is to support the emergence of a craft practice of resilience. The resilience pioneers are helping the old systems ‘let go’ as well as focussing our evolutionary energy on building resilience at every level – to withstand the coming storms whilst enriching our collective humanity, cultivating life-giving cultures of sustainability.” Another blog from Nick Wilding, this time with a specific focus. There’s some cross-over with his other blog above, but still very well worth reading.