Our Vows

Vow of Earth

We are a people of a place.

We grow with it and through it.

We will prefigure the life we desire.

We will build a new world in the shell of the old.

We will live it in daily practice.

Through community.

Through dedication

Through a life rooted

in place and persistence.

We will build.

We will tend.

We will find meaning,

In the life of today.

We will sow the harvest

of future generations.

We are one earth.

All things must come to the soul from its roots;
from where it is planted.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Vow of Fire

We are a people of ritual.
We flow with it into our daily lives.
We are not bound to it.
Or any doctrine.
The truth is revealed every moment.
We witness and we change.
We burn
to thank the ashes for new growth.
We build meaning into our lives.
Intentionally.
Intuitively.
With no chain
or chasuble.
We are each of the fire.
Holy and Changing.
We will not forget our future to whims
Nor our past to wishes
We will envision daily.
For a better way.
We will strive to become.
Together.
We are one fire.

O most honored Greening Force,

You who roots in the Sun;
You who lights up, in shining serenity,

within a wheel
that earthly excellence fails to comprehend.
You are enfolded
in the weaving of divine mysteries.
You redden like the dawn
and you burn: flame of the Sun.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen