Wild Church Invocation August 2025

We gather together in this wild cathedral
where there are no walls or windows
to separate us
from the land on which
trees breathe and plants transform
the sunlight
where the spirited elements dance and desire,
tousle our hair
and play on our skin,
where everlasting cycles of birth and death,
and birth again,
are engraved in the seasons’
turnings.
With abundant gratitude and openness,
quieted hearts and wandering souls,
we pay attention
as our senses reveal their ancient knowing,
and call this,
Sacred.
-Mary Abma

Time spent under ancient trees, by bubbling creeks and in conversation with the land and waterways of Whatcom Falls was not wasted, at Mondays Wild Church.

Gratitude to all who gathered, shared in blackberries, prayer and reflection. As we listened to creation and each other, the summer ground the held us and the sunset reminded us to embrace this wild and precious life.