Come journey with Beyond These Shores

Beyond These Shores calls you to a journey to adventure and risk. We invite you to push out into the deep beyond your secure, comfortable shore, which prevents you from exploring the fullness of, in the words of Mary Oliver, your "one wild and precious life".  Your life as gift to the glory of God, for your joy, and the joy and healing of the world.

 

Aware or not, we all stand, each day, at the edge of a new dawn, just beyond the horizon of each day. The human heart yearns to stretch toward what is yet to be known. Too often, though, the comfort and security of the familiar shores of our lives keep us tethered, safe, but not fully alive or living wholehearted. We choose to reside on these shores and settle for a domesticated version of God, a concept to be discussed and theologized. We may not realize we have an impersonal relationship with the One who created us, loves us, and redeems our story. Yet there is so much more Beyond These Shores.

 

Beyond These Shores calls you to explore the depths of the fullness of God, and the weight of the glory of your True self. Here your story and God’s story become one as you discover the terrifying joy of what it means to become vulnerable, naked and not ashamed-fully human and alive!  And to experience your life as "whole and holy". 

 

Beyond These Shores calls you to a wholeheartedness, wild with life and hope, and yes, danger. This pearl of great price changes everything. For you and for the world.

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A pilgrimage for your Soul, Body, and Mind

*Painting by Caryn Lawton