Praying with the green life that quickens all things
BlueGreen Theology begins where water meets earth, in the conviction that creation has been praising God since long before we arrived. Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine abbess on the Rhine nine hundred years ago, had a word for the life at work in that praise: viriditas, greenness, the green vigour by which anything is alive at all. You are invited to pray through the greenings (the branch, the stone, the vine, the fiery life, the rain, the song), to stand honestly in the dry ground, and so to learn not to pray for creation but to pray with it.
Six greenings and a dry ground, with a fixed Opening and Closing. Meet as many as you wish, in any order (about three minutes each).
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
A greening is a place where the green life of God shows itself and can be prayed with. Turn on the ones you wish to pray with, as many or as few as you like. They keep their order, closing with the dry ground.
Enter where you are drawn. Stay as long as you need.