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Let's talk about the spiritual practice of wandering. In scripture and sometimes in our hymnody, wandering gets a bad rap. We are "prone to wander" far from God.
But walking around without concern for pace and direction can be a path to connection with God, too. We can wander into the most wonderful, surprising people, creekbanks, fields, or hobbies. I like to wander the aisles of fabric stores: clears my mind and fills me with ideas. Here's a lovely paperless song based on a Rumi poem about wandering.
Last Sunday, Louise Mundinger led us in a lovely workshop on Anglican Chant, which focused on a tone called tonus peregrinus. You would probably recognize it, because we sing this tone fairly frequently in most Episcopal churches. "Peregrinus" means "wanderer." The tone wanders, inviting us to wander forward, unworried, and trusting that we will resolve into God's ordering. Kind of like walking a labyrinth, which is its own kind of wandering.
This coming Sunday, congregation member James Van Looy will tell us all about labyrinths - their history, meaning, connection to sacred order - and then we'll walk the labyrinth on our cathedral floor. I hope you can join us or find another opportunity this week to wander. You can hum tonus peregrinus as you do!
Dean Amy
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