OpenSpirit, a creative worship gathering in the Christian tradition.
Sunday, March 22, 2009; 7:00 – 8:00 pm; MetroWest Performing Arts Center, Framingham.
Have you ever gotten lost in the desert? Desert wilderness can be profoundly disorienting. Relentless sand, everywhere you look. The desert can be bereft of roadsigns, directional markers. Over there – is that an oasis, or a mirage? Even so, our spiritual journey can bring us suffering, loneliness, and chaos – despite our best laid plans, and our fervent, heartfelt prayers.
In the desert, without a map. Friends, fellow pilgrims, what does it mean to sojourn in such places – and survive, perhaps even thrive? What strength can we find in companionship, with those we share bread with day by day? What animating energy can we find in communal worship, worship that enlivens and sustains our spirits in dry and barren seasons?
Is there, perhaps, a world of orientation that lies, as one poet puts it, “under the map”? How can we access this deeper layer, find a new way forward, let our spirit-sense discover the way? Let us seek together this new orientation. May God surprise us in ways we cannot anticipate. 
OpenSpirit. All you need to bring is a hunger for the presence of God, a thirst for authentic community. There is no right or wrong way to be in worship. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to dance, dance! God invites us to bring our whole selves to worship – all that we are, all we can become. We can bring our hearts, our minds, our spirits and our bodies, all of who we are, made in the image of God, unique, precious.
The MetroWest Performing Arts Center is accessible to all. Look for the red door, take the elevator to the third floor. Don’t be lost in the desert! Come, join us, and be found.