Invite: Sanctuary at Afrika Burn 2008

August 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm | In Afrika Burn, community, emergent spirituality | 8 Comments

We’d like to invite you to join us at Afrika Burn 2008. We are aiming to camp for 2 nights, arriving on Friday the 17th around noon, and leaving on Sunday 19th. The emphasis (speaking personally) is going to be family, so I will be taking part in childcare and facilitating an enjoyable, safe experience for the kids.

We are going to create a theme camp “Sanctuary“, planning to procure a central Bedouin shelter (with about 100 square meters chill/dance/sing/play/drum/tell stories/eat/sleep space) and around which we can pitch our tents. See the example from partycipation 2007 on the left. Besides providing a focus point, this will help protect against dust, wind and heat. We are hoping to pitch slightly removed from the noisier all night party spaces.

If you are “in”, then this would entail

  • shared meals – cooking and washing – from lunch Friday to breakfast Sunday. Maybe this equates to suppers only.
  • if you have kids, possibly a stint or two at childcare.

Even so, you are not obliged in any way – your level of participation is up to you.

Love and promises

August 9, 2008 at 9:23 pm | In Uncategorized | 2 Comments

On Sunday 27 July 2008 Bev lead our group.

She began the morning’s event with an absorbing short film titled “Are you the favourite person of anyone?” A quirky but interesting inward questioning glance at a real honest question. We then spent a few minutes in contemplation around this question and considered at first who is our favourite person, friend pet, sibling, colleague, family member etc…  We then gave some thought about being someones favourite person.

After a time of reflection a stunning rendering of combination of Jesus’s prayers were read out to the group in a prose style. Jesus believed in the power of prayer and said “Ask and you will receive”. The words were based on the prayers of Jesus found in  John 14 and 17.

After listening to the words of Jesus that were layered with desire and promises, a tray of fortune cookies ( hand-made by Bev!! ) was passed around and each person took a delicate cookie. We started to break up and eat the cookies. Inside each cookies we each found a small strip of paper with a promise of God printed on it. The promises were short quotations from the bible.

We then entered into a prayerful meditation that was titled a “Heart Meditation”. We focus inwardly on our hearts and allowed a sense of love energy to grow and then with Bev’s guidance though the meditation we were lead to focus this love into the centre of the group. We then thought of a loved one and “sent” this combined love to this person.

Continuing in meditation we then listened to two pieces of music. Eva Cassidy singing Songbird and Kelly Green singing Holy is the Lord. We remained for a while focused on God’s love our love for each other and the morning’s sublime grace melted into tea, coffee and muffins.

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August 2, 2008 at 11:58 am | In community | Leave a Comment

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