This is the first entry on a new blog for The Gathering so I’ve given some thought to what we want to do that is unique to us. I remember a particular experience from several years ago. Carol and I spent time in San Francisco and took a day to hike around the John Muir Woods. We were fortunate to have picked a morning when very few people were there and with no lines or noise. If you’ve been in the redwood forest you’ll know it is like entering Notre Dame or another of the great European churches. The people are reverent in their respect for these living giants of another age. Everyone instinctively looks up! The realization of being in the presence of Earth’s oldest living species is overwhelming. Reaching 300 feet in height and with diameters up to 44 feet these figures of age and beauty have lived up to 2,000 years.
That is how I see The Gathering. We share a common root system that keeps us bound together and woven together through our roots that hold us all up through everything that comes. That is why we say our mission is connecting a community of givers.