Advent Longing for the Redemption of All Creation
OpenSpirit Sunday Evening; December 6, 2009; 7 – 8pm
Performing Arts Center of MetroWest, Framingham; Pearl St., Red Door, 3rd Floor
Advent Longing. OpenSpirit continues exploring our deepest desire for God’s presence, our yearning for God-with-us. Last Sunday, at our retreat, we prayed with Isaiah, that God would tear open the heavens and come down.
Longing. This week, we pray with people of faith around the world in preparation for the international conference on climate in Copenhagen. We focus on our yearning for the redemption of all of creation, all life, all around us. 
Together, we shall explore both the challenges creation faces, and the vision required to move forward as sisters and brothers, in new ways.
Theologian Sallie McFague says the world itself is God’s body. What, then, does it mean to speak of Incarnation? As we prepare to celebrate the embodiment of the holy in a baby’s vulnerable flesh, can our ‘Christology,’ our understanding of Jesus, include all of created life?
This Advent, praying for Copenhagen, can we see the divine embodied in all created life, and commit ourselves to participate in redeeming it?
In poetry and song, with today’s newspapers and ancient scriptures, let us come together in prayer. This Advent, our prayer is not just for ourselves, although we need God’s presence in our own lives more than ever. This Advent, we pray for the redemption of all of creation. Join us at OpenSpirit: come in longing, to be met in the presence of God; bring your hunger, to be filled at a table of hope.