Peace During Election Week

During Election Week (November 5-7), Rolling Ridge will be open daily from 9am to 5pm for anyone who needs a quiet place to be. As many as 80% of Americans are experiencing election anxiety right now. We invite all who wish to come and spend time on our grounds, to walk, pray, or meditate outdoors.

As well, we will be offering a simple 20-minute prayer service will be offered each day (Tuesday – Thursday) at noon in the Moses Meeting Room. No charge, and RSVP is encouraged by not required.

In times of uncertainty and strife, we are here for our community. May God’s divine peace surround you and be with you as you vote, pray, and find the peace of wild things.

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Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things” speaks to our deep need for moments of stillness and connection with creation:

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