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Wednesday Morning Small Group Gathering on Zoom

Join Pastor Stephanie every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10am on Zoom for 60 minutes of devotion, discussion and meditation. 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 10am to 11am Meeting ID: 588 088 690 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/588088690

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We need your help to fill our 12 water tanks!

Thank you, Thank you! We are getting closer to reaching our goal of purchasing water for the summer and fall!
https://gofund.me/23ef1646

Want to join me in making a difference? The Land has doubled the size of our garden this year which … Stephanie Price needs your support for Water the Garden!

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The formation of the Great Plains grasslands began 5 to 7 million years ago but the shortgrass prairie we know today developed following the retreat of the last Wisconsin glaciers approximately 10,000 years ago!

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I do not believe that our call to a lifestyle of kinship will resurrect an ecological Eden, I do believe it may save us from despair and offer our children hope. That there will still be small spaces left where people listen to the voices of connectivity.

https://thelandaurora.org/after-the-pause-in-conservation/

For the past year and a half, I have regularly used the word “conservation” when referring to our community’s relationship with these ten acres of shortgrass prairie. While conservation has not required that The Land remains unchanged, it has created space to understand the pricelessness of Th...

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Closed down and reserved my first inactive burrow today. ❤🌻

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Discerning what love "is" takes place in abstract, intuitive terrain.

Unfortunately, it seems, more often than not this is a discernment most accurately done in retrospect. In practice, we must live through love before we understand what it was that was happening to us.

It is the outcome of the action that predicts the meaning made from the experience.

Have we been bonded more closely together while remaining as individuals? Do we feel seen, heard, loved, understood, and honored in the community? Do we have a purpose that matches an inner calling and, if not, do we believe we have people cheering us on toward wherever we hope to be going...even if it isn't in the same direction as 'the rest of us'?

At The Land, the potential for 'love manifest' rests in our willingness to change our own behaviors and beliefs to expand the circle of belonging. This is not a change in language for the sake of optics but a true ongoing, internal transformation inspired by authentic relationships. In loving relationships, we break open again and again so that we might, as Dr. Kim Tallbear envisions, "draw people into kinship relations based on a pattern of relational exchange and communal reformation."

The question leading toward or away from love is neither new nor unexpected.

Are we clinging for control to traditions that make us comfortable or are we contributing to the emergence of a beloved community that will build bridges for our children and their children to cross over into a new vision of a world founded on reciprocity and kinship?

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Quote from Reciprocity with Nature by Toko-pa Turner
"We are remembering how to be an ecosystem. As sustainable living writer Vicki Robin suggests, 'Treat everyone within fifty miles like you love them.' I would add that we include in our image of “everyone” the standing people, the feathered people, the rock people, the water bodies, and so on. We must reconstitute the world through our many small contributions, collaborations, and togetherness. As we work to protect the last stands of wilderness around and within us, creating beauty from loss and heartbreak, we will meet each other: those with no extraordinary power but the devotion to do what we know we must do—and look after each other. We include each other whenever we can by doing things in pairs or circles and groups, like work parties and generosity circles, clothing swaps and protests, practicing at the power of our belonging together. Because as times get tougher, we will need a strong, reciprocal web of skills and attributes to be called upon."

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