April News from Earth & Soul
Hello Dear Friends of Earth & Soul,
We have entered into a new season of the year and I invite you to spend time looking and listening to Earth. She has so much to teach us. And we need to listen now more than ever. In The Great Search, John Philip writes of how the Scottish poet Edwin Muir “invites us to remember our first experiences of light, glistening in earth, sea and sky, and in the eyes of those who love us, and to pledge ourselves in faith to every human being and to the healing of Earth as our shared home.”
What a gift it is to come together as part of the Earth & Soul community whether online or in person to pray together, to learn, to share in spiritual practice, to listen and to pay attention to how we are being called into compassionate action in our lives that we may be part of healing in the world.
Thank you for your presence with one another in person, online and in spirit. We invite you to join us for the May offerings listed below as well as any of our growing list of 2025 and 2026 retreats, pilgrimages and events which are listed on our Events Page.
Special note: There is an opening on the June 21-28, 2025 Iona Pilgrimage for a back view twin/double room. Please contact the St. Columba Hotel directly via phone or email: St. Columba Hotel
Let us begin each new day together with this prayer that we may grow in awareness of the light that is everywhere.
May the angels of light
glisten for us this day.
May the sparks of God's beauty
dance in the eyes of those we love.
May the universe
be on fire with Presence for us this day.
May the new sun's rising
grace us with gratitude.
Let Earth's greenness shine
and its waters breathe with Spirit.
Let heaven's winds stir the soil of our soul
and fresh awakenings rise within us.
May the mighty angels of light
glisten in all things this day.
May they summon us to reverence,
may they call us to life.
-John Philip Newell in Praying with the Earth
John Philip and I are grateful to share in this journey with you. Thank you for the light you are in this world.
Peace,
Cami Twilling
Director of Earth & Soul