A Call to Sacred Service: Help Us Build the Garden

Written By: Makenzie Darling

There is a vision we hold close to our hearts of a world where the way is opened for every soul to directly experience the divine within this lifetime. It’s not just a dream, it’s a devotion and we actually believe it is possible.

But visions of this magnitude are not carried by a single pair of hands. They require a collective of hearts, a choir of voices, and the steady rhythm of many feet walking the path together.

At Sacred Garden, we are reimagining what it means to serve in a spiritual community. Too often, movements like ours falter, not because the vision is wrong, but because the structure is unsustainable. Burnout brews when a handful of people carry too much, isolation spreads when community members are kept at the margins, and are invited to attend but not to create. We believe there’s a better way.

We are building a sacred ecology, where power is gently held, but not hoarded. Yes, there are clear roles and directional stewards to ensure momentum, but we are inviting you, yes…you, into the sacred garden to help us grow something lasting, rooted, and alive.

This is an invitation to join a Sacred Service Circle, which is a living body of committed members who believe in this vision and are ready to grow alongside it. This Circle needs the most support and the most brilliance in these following areas:

-Technology Council

-Curriculum and Education Council

-Fundraising Council

– Community Development and Outreach Council

– Safety & Harmony Council

– Operations & Administrative Council

We know our community is brimming with untapped genius, wisdom, creativity, and care. We are asking you, humbly and sincerely, to bring your gifts to the fire. This is an invitation to not just support the Garden, but to help shape it. To bring your voice, your perspective, and your hands into the co-creative process of building something rare and urgently needed in these times.

Because let’s be honest: the world is cracking open. Systems are fraying. We are standing at a threshold between collapse and renewal. In this liminal space, we believe that sanctuaries like Sacred Garden are not a luxury, but a necessity. We desperately need places where people can gather, heal, remember, and reimagine together.

Nature whispers to us the wisdom of collaboration, which are not just poetic metaphors, but living blueprints for how life thrives. Bees teach us the art of collective devotion. In a hive, no bee survives alone, but each has a role (gathering nectar, tending the young, protecting the queen) and yet all are in service to the whole. Their intricate dances, their invisible communication, their tireless labor are not acts of sacrifice, but of synergy. The sweetness they create is born from unity.

And mycelial networks…those ancient, underground webs of fungal intelligence that we all love so much…show us how connection can nourish an entire forest. Trees use these networks to communicate, share nutrients, and warn each other of danger. The mycelium carries no ego, yet it serves as the lifeblood of the ecosystem. It reminds us that the most powerful support often happens quietly, invisibly, in the soil beneath the surface.

These models remind us that shared purpose, mutual aid, and distributed intelligence are not just high-minded ideals, but they are nature’s way. They are how forests stand, how hives flourish, and how flocks survive. In a time of great unraveling, perhaps the greatest wisdom we can follow is that of the Earth herself: build together, move together, thrive together.

This is more than just an invitation, it’s an initiation. A chance not only to give back to a community you (we hope) feel deeply rooted in, but to step into something larger than yourself. It’s an opportunity to grow in unexpected ways: to learn new skills, uncover hidden strengths, deepen your spiritual practice, and walk shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow seekers on the path. It is a chance to co-author a legacy…to help birth something that will ripple far beyond our lifetimes.

We do not promise perfection. This will be a living, learning process, and we will make mistakes. But we vow to keep showing up with care, respect, and trust and a commitment to integrity and repair. If your heart stirs just a little reading this and if you feel the ember of purpose glowing quietly inside you, consider this your call to join us at our Sacred Service Council. Be part of something sacred, wild, and world-shifting.

Together, let’s grow the Garden.