By BARBARA BARBIERI
Members of Bluffton’s First Presbyterian Church, 215 East Dustman Rd., will be welcoming area residents to their Labyrinth on Saturday, May 7, to participate in “World Labyrinth Day” and to Walk for Peace from 1 to 2 p.m.
Every year on the first Saturday in May, thousands of people around the globe participate in World Labyrinth Day as a moving meditation for world peace and celebration of the labyrinth experience. Many “Walk as One at 1” local time to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the next, and there are additional ways to participate.
World Labyrinth Day is an international annual event founded by The Labyrinth Society in 2009. World Labyrinth Day in Educational Settings was initiated by the Australian Labyrinth Network in 2019 in collaboration with TLS.
In 2021, TLS and ALN also partnered with the Veridatas and Legacy Labyrinth Project to bring together engaging events, labyrinth-based research, helpful resources and a vibrant new website dedicated to World Labyrinth Day.
In 2022 the celebration continues with pre-World Labyrinth Day events, updated resources and the Big Connection 2.0 global research project.
The point of a maze is to find its center while the point of a labyrinth is to find yours. The labyrinth here offers the opportunity to walk in meditation to that place within us where the rational merges with the intuitive and spiritual is born.
Visitors to the Labyrinth at 1 p.m. Saturday will be handed a program explaining the walking of one:
Scriptural themes for the labyrinth are “As you enter, walk in love,” Hebrews 13.1; “At the center, be still and know that I am God,” Psalm 46:10; and “When you return, go in peace,” Hebrews 13:30.
Anyone wishing a paper Labyrinth to trace will be provided one by calling Betty Oakes, a member of the Labyrinth committee, at 260-437-4187. (Noted by the Labyrinth committee is that the site is within a brief detour off of the walking Interurban Trail along Main Street/Ind. 1.)
The labyrinth is registered with a website that lists labyrinths from across the nation and around the world.
barb@news-banner.com
