July News from Earth & Soul
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Dear Friends of Earth & Soul,
July greetings to each of you. I invite you to pause for a moment, place your hand on your heart, and take a few slow deep breaths. May you know the light within you. You are a blessing in this world.
In his forthcoming book, The Great Search, John Philip Newell writes, “The light of the divine can be looked for everywhere, in every moment, and deep within every encounter and relationship of life.” Now, perhaps more than ever, we are being invited to look for this light everywhere. Our communities, nations and world can begin to heal when we look to the light within one another, when we love the light that is in Earth, and when we honor the light within our own being.
The Great Search is available for pre-order and releases on August 20 in the US (HarperOne) and mid-August in the UK (Wild Goose). We invite you to join the book launch celebration at Montreat Conference and Retreat Center on October 24 in person or via Zoom. The celebration will include wine, music, and song as well as readings from the book by John Philip and the opportunity to have your own copy signed. Please join us for this exciting moment of celebrating a profound vision for the way forward today in our relationship with Earth, with one another and our own true depths.
There are several things happening this October and we would love to have you join us. Two retreats in the Celtic Wisdom series are being offered. Celtic Wisdom 1 at Bon Secours in Baltimore, MD and Celtic Wisdom 3 in Montreat, NC. The Great Search series begins at Roslyn Retreat Center in Richmond, VA. In addition to these retreats a day retreat will be held in Brevard, NC and an evening talk in Black Mountain, NC. All details and a full list of events can be found below. Our complete list of 2024 retreats, pilgrimages and events are listed on our Events Page. Please note we are always updating the events page so check back often.
We are grateful for each of you in the Earth & Soul community as we share together in teaching and spiritual practice and listen both as individuals and collectively to how we are being called to compassionate action.
Let us pray together for our world, communities, families and for those who are working to bring healing in places of great conflict. We are one Earth community. May we live and act in this way that all may know peace.
You are above us, O God,
you are within.
You are in all things
yet contained by no thing.
Teach us to seek you in all that has life
that we may see you as the Light of life.
Teach us to search for you in our own depths
that we may find you in every living soul.
-from Sounds of the Eternal, a Celtic Psalter
Blessings to you.
Peace,
Cami Twilling
Director of Earth & Soul