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A REPORT ABOUT AWARE 2009
AWARE 2009 was a beautiful weekend when under direction of Emma Marsh
we explored this beautiful story of Mary and Martha with Jesus.
Emma touched our very souls again with her teachings of this wonderful story.
Twenty five beautiful christian women spent the weekend realizing that in this MARTHA world we most definitely should become MARYS but we realized that we have to be a little of both. Sometimes, in our rushed worlds as women, with our own families, aging parents, our jobs and our own spiritual journeys and with trying to function in our parishes we must remember that there is more expected of us than to be fund raising and that we need time for fellowship and learning together. This is what Jesus would want us to do.
Rev. Dana Mellis used beautiful little tulips planted in separate pots, growing at different stages to show us that we are not all "at the same place" in our faiths.
Duncan, the Lavrock caretaker, had planted tulip bulbs in pots in the ground, and had just dug them up and laid them on the front steps in this cold May weather. Rev. Dana in her contemplative way, brought these inside and showed us with her teaching that we are all like the plants, some at different stages of our faith, not quite blooming yet, while others are showing color, but then again others are really young yet and explained to us it is alright that we are at different stages of our faith's journey and demonstrated the beauty of each one. It was most heart warming and comfortable.
Our workshops were productive as women brought forth their different ideas and questions, we all learned much from that. The prayer time was most sacred and the music lifted our souls in that beautiful country. As we received communion on Sunday morning we had an altar cloth that was inscribed by each woman, most beautiful.
Lavrock offered us, as usual, wonderful meals and caring and the staff have become precious to us.
AWARE 2009 missed Arcelia, as she is home recovering from illness and we prayed for sisters since gone to be with the Lord.
Blessings!
Olive Grunert
Convenor 2009.
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