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the orchard community the orchard community spiritual life growth in the way of jesus pages welcome posts meeting times and location why the orchard contact more info monday september 26 2016 the orchard in hibernation mode much has happened in our lives since the last post for all who come to read here please know this website will stay active and we may continue to post from time to time but the orchard community itself is no longer meeting our gatherings were always in fits and starts small groups of 2 5 people for brief seasons that never lasted long and while that s all it ever was makes it sound like there was failure involved since it didn t grow and become what we thought it should what we hoped it could what we dreamed it would nothing could be further from the truth god met us and sustained us and still is we are different people now in more dependent relation to god than ever before even if our paths are diverged from what we once saw and we trust that god will continue to uphold us as we walk into the future but for now the orchard is in hibernation for however long this beautiful but uncertain winter wilderness lasts for now here is a parting thought to remind us all the powerful reason why we all have to keep getting out of bed that changes a broken world go read the full post you ll be glad you did and here s an excerpt to whet your appetite nothing is more necessary than finding god and falling in love and deeper into him love decides love decides everything what you are in love with decides what you live for what you are in love with decides what decides what you get out of bed for fall in love with the hands that shaped your heart that cup your face that trace your scars that caress you with grac e fall in love with his face in a thousand faces in the baby that meets you at the crib rail and the teenager that doesn t want to budge and man that find that never fails to put feet to the floor and find his levis and the back door to brave the world for love fall in love with the one who fills your lungs with this breath and all these people and this sky and all this light all this glorious light you have to fall in love because this will get you up and keep you going every day because love decides go fall in love with grace and mercy and the only one who has ever loved you to death and back to the realest life because the world is begging us all to get out of bed and sacrifice for someone hurting for someone different for someone forgotten or marginalized to hold the hand of someone who doesn t look like us to lean in and listen to someone angry and grieving and doubting the likes of us to give a bit of ourselves to those who feel like they aren t given much real space at the table fall in love stay in love stay sacrificing and you live the most satisfied what you are in love with in your life decides everything about your life love decides everything the sun can rise and we all could rise falling around each other falling all around healing rising posted by can opener boy at 3 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry pruning resting seasons friday december 11 2015 the god who fell from heaven i first posted this a few years ago and it is so wonderfully compelling and poignant i had to share it again a prayer to the god who fell from heaven by john shea if you had stayed tightfisted in the sky and watched us thrash with all the patience of a pipe smoker i would pray like a golden bullet aimed at your heart but the story says you cried and so heavy was the tear you fell with it to earth where like a baritone in a bar it is never time to go home so you move among us twisting every straight line into picasso stealing kisses from pinched lips holding our hand in the dark so now when i pray i sit and turn my mind like a television knob till you are there with your large open hands spreading my life before me like a sunday tablecloth and pulling up a chair for yourself for by now the secret is out you are home posted by can opener boy at 12 15 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry seasons friday october 23 2015 the peace of wild things the peace of wild things when despair for the world grows in me and i wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children s lives may be i go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds i come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief i come into the presence of still water and i feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their light for a time i rest in the grace of the world and am free wendell berry posted by can opener boy at 3 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry seasons tuesday december 10 2013 winter waiting it has been some time since we ve posted anything here this came our way today seems fitting to share as we approach the solstice you keep us waiting you the god of all time want us to wait for the right time in which to discover who we are where we must go who will be with us and what we must do so thank you for the waiting time from the iona community worship book expectantly keith posted by can opener boy at 3 27 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels establishing roots fallowness hibernating resting seasons friday march 29 2013 disillusion meets dissolution this month the orchard passed a new milestone we are no longer an incorporated non profit in the state of oregon in that legal business sense the orchard has been dissolved the reason we originally incorporated was so we could take donations and allow people to claim a tax deduction our goal was never to make money for ourselves i never planned to have a salary or to be the pastor rather we wanted to collectively pool resources and give those funds away to the people in our lives who we knew needed the money as i referenced in a bend in the road we were originally a church plant within the association of vineyard churches as such we had some funds in our account as a start up which had been a gift from our sending church so over time we simply gave all that money away one great example is a single mother whose minivan broke down it would cost 1500 to fix it or she could try and buy a used one for 2500 she had about 1000 she could scrape up if she really scrimped but either way she didn t have enough money so the orchard wrote her a check for 1500 no strings attached we didn t write the check to a mechanic or a used car lot we wrote it to her personally and she got to decide what to do with it whether she used it toward a car or not wasn t the point expressing god s love to someone in need was the point she was in tears and didn t really know what to say that s the kind of thing we wanted to do more of and so if people wanted to donate and help us decide where that money could best be donated then at least all those who gave to the orchard could get a deduction on their taxes here s the deal though no one ever gave us any money no one ever not even us we didn t donate to our own non profit as the money in our account dwindled and ran out we realized that we cathy i as a couple would still be giving away money and time and love etc to people around us who were in need with or without a tax deduction since that is not the point and therefore we had no need to maintain a non profit corporation in fact doing so sort of went against the basic essence of the last directive we really received from god about this whole journey we ve been on here at the orchard when the orchard master said to us don t build anything just love people so as of this month according to the state of oregon the orchard community does not exist as an official entity we ve been dissolved dissolved un solved i like that since there are no easy answers and we re also now more disillusioned than ever but don t get me wrong disillusionment is a good thing being more and more disillusioned means we have fewer and fewer illusions less deceptions and false visions in our sight as we look at the people in our lives and in the world around us as we look at ourselves and as we look to the orchard master for where we are all headed together on this crazy mixed up journey in our early days here in oregon and just before we moved i described what we were seeing like driving on a foggy road out in the country we were not sure what we would look like or how we would function and be the church we had some ideas of course but they were vague and nebulous like looking out into the fog and seeing a general outline of a house we knew there was something up ahead but we were not sure what it was i thought as we moved closer we would see it more and more clearly instead quite the opposite has happened the longer we are here the more we realize what we thought we were seeing was not what it was at all there were a lot of illusions as our eyes and our hearts played tricks on us so this month as we celebrate the arrival of another spring and we consider the timing and wisdom behind the dissolution of our non profit corporation and we enjoy the journey of dis illusion ment we might just be starting to see some things more clearly the imagery and symbolism of an orchard still makes a lot of sense but if all we ever look at is the orchard itself we miss so much around us as we begin to look around us as the fog clears a bit maybe when it is all said and done and disllusion meets dissolution there really is no house up ahead in the fog no place for us to inhabit and do things perhaps instead we re seeing a natural playground a wide expanse to explore and enjoy with whoever we encounter along the way that sounds relaxing and fun daring and adventurous and exciting full of possibilities and new life and growth as we experience enjoy reciprocate and express creator s great and marvelous ever expansive love click for larger version peace keith posted by can opener boy at 5 39 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cultivating seasons sunday december 23 2012 to know the dark winter in oregon includes a lot of dark it has been somewhat dark at the orchard for a number of seasons now we re not sure where we re going or what we are to be doing as they say old orders are good orders and so we rest in what we heard from creator a few years back don t try to build anything just love people beyond that we don t know much at all walking in the dark is something we are getting to know to go in the dark with a light is to know the light to know the dark go dark go without sight and find that the dark too blooms and sings and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings wendell berry posted by can opener boy at 3 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels resting seasons tuesday july 31 2012 no matter the season as summer comes into it s fullness here in oregon we remember how long winter lasted how rainy spring seemed we also begin to sense just the faintest chill in the evening air daylight begins to shorten and we know the autumnal changes are not far away in this time between the times liminality we cherish the goodness of what and who is here and now with us and we bask in the orchard master s faithfullness to us and to all no matter the season o blessed spring the gift of love by susan palo cherwien o blessed spring where word and sign embrace us into christ the vine here christ enjoins each one to be a branch of this life giving tree through summer heat of youthful years uncertain faith rebellious tears sustained by christ s infusing rain the boughs will shout for joy again when autumn cools and youth is cold when limbs their heavy harvest hold then through us warm the christ will move with gifts of beauty wisdom love as winter comes as winters must we breathe our last return to dust still held in christ our souls take wing and trust the promise of the spring christ holy vine christ living tree be praised for this blest mystery that word and water thus revive and join us to your tree of life posted by can opener boy at 12 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry seasons older posts home subscribe to posts atom this month s popular posts the donkey was a comma today is palm sunday the sunday before easter when christians traditionally celebrate jesus triumphal entry living loved sometimes i wake up earlier than i need to and instead of falling back asleep i think and pray this happened the other night i ve been dying to live i m reading henri nouwen s book our greatest gift a meditation on dying and caring one of his main points speaks to learning how two saplings are planted in ancient hebrew literature a vineyard 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