Description:

The Beatitudes--Jesus' sermon on the mount--are a prescription for healing in a world gone mad for bigness--big power, big wealth, big emotion, big media. The season of Lent calls us to resist this bigness gone amok, to find again our God of mercy in the humble.

The Earth is stirring with the same re-orientation--tiny messages of hope and life making their way toward the surface of the soil and our consciousness. 

In her own spiritual life, Deborah Potter discovered a practice which embeds these messages from earth and scripture--Jesus' echoing beatific messages--into soil of our lives.

That's what this Lenten afternoon retreat will teach us—how to find and work with the tiniest miracles of Earth--to use them, along with scripture and prayer, as the materials with which the Holy Spirit reorients us toward what is merciful and free.

Join us for lunch, outdoor foraging, contemplative meditation and community reflection. 

 

To Bring with you:

•Weeds, Seeds, Berries, vines, leaves, fungi or any other element of Earth that strike you as overlooked and beautiful. We will also forage as part of the retreat, but to begin before the retreat may enrich your connection with the season and equip you with materials from your own or a particularly meaningful landscape.
• Garden Gloves, if you prefer to work with them
• Garden Clippers

 

About our Retreat Leader:

Deborah Potter is a preacher, poet, writer and natural artist whose work converges around one fascination--the connection between land, self, sacred story and maker. She has written two books, a full-length poetry manuscript and a poetry chapbook: Directions to Beauty: An Almanac for Personal Transformation, Probably God is a Bayou: Brackish Reflections on Life, Death, and Place, Poems from an Un-manicured Yard and When Owls Call: Eulogies for my Youth and the Planet. Deborah lives in Pensacola, Florida and serves at First Presbyterian Church, Milton.

 

To pay by check, please make your check payable to Center for Sacred Space in the amount of $45.00 and mail to P.O. Box 2164, Pensacola, FL 32513.

If paying by check, please consider adding a donation of $20 or more to support the Center for Sacred Space and its programs. 

Cancellation Policy: If a cancellation request is received 30 days prior to the event, a full refund of the event cost will be given . If a cancellation request is received between 30 days and 14 days prior to the event, 50% of the program cost will be refunded. If the cancellation request is received less than 14 days prior to the start of the event, none of the cost will be refunded.