I am writing to you tonight, to bring to you a proclamation of the State of the Church as we have come to celebrate nearly a year since we embarked on this local, physical journey; this phase of the development of our Church and Church family in Athens, GA. It has been a remarkable, amazing joinery, one filled with Magic and Miracles.
It had been too long since I had seen my Mother, who, on her next Winter, will celebrate 95 years walking, in a good way, on the breast of our Sacred Mother Earth. I was eager to come here, come home, and visit her. It was my initial plan to spend only a few days here, then return to Chattanooga. But, Spirit had other plans.
Realizing if I went back to Chattanooga, as I initially planned, she would be here, alone, with both of her two sons, hours away from her. I was prompted to stay a while, at least until my brother returned from holiday. Fortunately, this was one of those moments in which I listened.
Within days, I received a phone call from her Assisted Living facility, saying Mom had take a nasty fall, and was being transported to the ER. Victoria then made me aware of some up-coming festivals at Rabbit Hole Studios that I might be interested in. Now, stepping back in the story a few years, I first met Victoria while she was working as a server at a favorite restaurant of mine.
How fortunate was I, we, that Victoria was serving my table that. We had never met until then, but there was that certain and immediate soul connection between she and me. I spoke of Prayer Ceremony I was offering in the Athens area at the time. She expressed a beautiful interest in my work and offerings. We exchanged phone numbers, agreeing that I would invite her to my next Ceremony, the latter of which came in November We gathered for Prayer Ceremony at our beloved Healing Path Farm, in our yurt, creating a sacred space on a cold November evening.
