Take Away, Take Away: A Worship Jam Sacred Circle Dance Tutorial

Take Away, Take Away, written and taught by Rev. Dr. Gail Ransom Demonstrated by members of the Worship Jam At First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh www.FirstUMCPittsburgh.org Take away, take away, strip your soul bare Take away everything, God is still there. Give it up. Let it go. Cast off your history. Fall into mystery. God is still there. Worship Jam is a Creation Spirituality community that gathers in a circle every Wednesday evening at First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh to co-create worship through improvisation, play, spontaneity and creativity. We connect with our Creator, our deepest selves, and the eternal wisdom that shapes the universe through chant, prayer, drumming, and sacred circle dancing. We are pleased to offer these sacred circle dance tutorials for you to use in your own community. Creation Spirituality reveres and celebrates the universe as a wholly integrated manifestation of divine creativity, from the first burst of matter 14 billion years ago to the way we live our lives today. It experiences God as creative energy, Christ as transforming energy, and Spirit as connective energy throughout all time and space. Creation Spirituality advocates the aligning of ourselves with divine wisdom through embodying the organizing principles of the cosmos: compassion, communion, and love-justice as found in all life forms, and to the universal paradigm of life-death-and-resurrection.