WELCOME TO PEACE and to our three week celebration of the SEASON OF CREATION! 

Our themes and liturgy during this year’s Season of Creation are inspired by Barbara Mahany’s The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text. She writes: “Ancient peoples read the Book of Nature as the first sacred text, the text of all of creation, inscribed and unfurled by a God present always and everywhere.” God has “infused the natural world with symbol and meaning, and if only we read what’s there in the trees and the storms and the stars and the hives, we might more fully comprehend the Creator.”

Over these three weeks we’ll explore three themes inspired by Barbara’s book: Water’s Edge/Salish Sea—Wind & Weather—Celestial Spheres  

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Our theme for this Sunday, Week Three, is Celestial Spheres.  Sun, moon, and stars interact with Earth and shape the daily lives and rhythms of all of Earth’s inhabitants in ways both profound and mundane.  These “spheres of influence” are part of the origin story of all Earthlings. An astonishment sample from Barbara:

“Orbital truths: planet Earth orbits around the sun at 64,800 miles per hour; our solar system—one described “like a merry-go-round unhinged, [that] spins, bobs, and blinks”—is downright slo-mo in comparison, gliding a mere 43,200 miles per hour along a course east of Hercules.” 

The Worship Guide for Week Three can be downloaded here: Creation 3B Book of Nature 6.23.24 bulletin FINAL