UP WILD CHURCH
Behold
& Awaken Wonder
WELCOME TO U.P. WILD
U.P. WILD is a diverse faith community that cultivates the roots of Christianity recognizing that the wilderness has always been and still is a place of holy connection, revelation, wonderment, & healing.
OUR SHARED VISION:
Gathering together we bear witness to the holiness around us & place ourselves as God's stewards within a living breathing eco-system. We challenge the emptiness of our culture of consumption and experience the fullness of living in right relationship with the Earth and our Creator. We open the Book of Nature.
THE PRAYER OF THE BEE:
God, let my small span of ardent life melt into our great communal task; to lift up to Your love this temple of sweetness, a citadel of incense, a holy candle, myriad-celled, moulded of Your graces and of my hidden work.
PRAYER OF MECHTILD OF MAGDEBURG:
The day of my spirtual awakening was the day I saw, and knew I saw, all things in God and God in all things.
PRAYER OF THOMAS MERTON:
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.
PRAYER OF SAINT BASIL:
God teaches us through creation. [The natural world] is the supreme icon
of Christian faith which leads to knowledge of the Supreme Artisan.
PRAYER OF HENRI NOUWEN:
I am afraid that in a few decades the Church will be accused of having failed in its most basic task: to offer people creative ways to communicate with the source of life." (1972)