Advent Abundance in Enough-ness: A Guided Weekend Retreat
“Within abundance lies the belief that what you need will be available when you need it.”
Advent is the spiritual season of hopeful expectation and preparation for the coming of Christ. However, in our modern secular society it can feel more like a precursor to permissive end-of-year capitalistic consumption. When we live, move, and have our being in a culture steeped in a market economy, it is easy to slide down a slippery slope into assumptions of scarcity and competition, instead of staying rooted in a theology of abundance and collaboration. Using the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer, we’ll consider G-d’s economy and how we are invited to participate in holy gift-giving systems for mutual flourishing. Through radical acceptance of what we have, instead of focusing on what we want but don’t have, perhaps we can encourage one another this Advent season to recognize G-d’s extravagant enough-ness and cultivate our own prodigal practices of gratitude.
Preparatory expectations for attendees include reading The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer in advance of the retreat. Purchase of the book is included in the registration fee and available to be picked up at the Center, or shipped for an additional cost.
Date: December 4 – 6, 2026
Time: Starting at 4:00pm; Ending December 6 after lunch