Presbyterian Peace Fellowship - How is Advent bidding rest in you?

Greetings from the Shenandoah River watershed, part of the greater Chesapeake Bay system. That’s a pretty big watershed of its own, but I love to remember the ways we’re all connected throughout the global water systems: rain and groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans, tears of joy and grief, the waters of our baptisms… it’s all the same, live-giving waters.   Isaiah 35:6-7 provides a vision of water bringing comfort and restoration:   …for waters shall break forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert; The burning sand shall become a pool, And the thirsty ground springs of water…   Isaiah is full of prophecies of hope in and help from God. I love living out this hope and help in community with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship—a group of people who aren’t perfect, but work hard to remember that all of us, and all of creation, are connected. We depend on one another's thriving. Can you make a gift today to support the water? This is what we work for.

Waters of the Pacific Ocean, photo by Colleen Earp

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In the Fossil Free PCUSA working group, we’re particularly focused on seeking peace for and with creation. PPF's new vision statement imagines a world of peace where all God's creation can thrive. We know that none of us can survive, much less thrive, without access to clean water, fresh air, and fertile soil. After a decade of organizing around categorical divestment from fossil fuels in the PC(USA), we are grateful for selective divestment from five companies with particularly egregious environmental and social records. Now, we recognized that we needed some time to rest: heart, soul, mind, and strength before strategizing for the next phase of this work. So much of the violence inflicted upon land, water and the peoples of this planet comes out of a culture of extraction. We can get caught up in this culture even as we seek to organize and heal the earth and our communities. One way we are leaning into what abolition has to teach us is to rest. To resist a culture of domination and extraction (even of ourselves). Rest is an important part of the creation story, too! From it waters can break forth, streams in the desert. We know our work is not over as we labor for all of creation to live life safely and abundantly. We hope you’ll join us when we come out of our present sabbath later this winter. You can learn more on our webpage or fill out this form to stay in touch. And in the meantime, I hope you’ll join me in making a year-end gift to PPF in honor of all we’ve accomplished together.

May we move together for and with creation. Peace, Colleen

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