Living Love Through the Practice of Presence and Compassion
Think about a time in your life when the principles became real through your living experience. When did you receive or give life in a way that changed your life as well as someone else’s?
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Room for a Little One, Room for All! The Heart of the Christmas Story
We celebrate this Christmas Eve with a story that includes everyone–all the animals, all the children, all our own hearts and spirits. With story, song, and candlelight, we welcome this holy night afresh into the multicolored tapestry of our spiritual lives.
Creating a Web to Hold Us: Being Present with Others
Almost all of the December holidays have a similar theme at their very core: Belonging to a healthy, loving community replaces fear with hope and purpose. Where and how do we create micro- and macro-communities of care by showing up for others? And what joy will be reborn in us when we do? Come celebrate the gifts of this season simply through showing up for each other this week!
Sacred Pause: Living Love Through Presence on the Longest Night
This Winter Solstice Ritual Service honors the longest night of the year, we embrace the darkness as a time for reflection and renewal. As the sun retreats, we gather to connect deeply with ourselves; a sacred pause where we invite the warmth of love to emerge from within and radiate outward. This ritual service is a reminder that even in the darkest moments, light and love are always reborn, symbolizing hope and the cyclical nature of life. Living Love through the practice of Presence, we embody this sacred cycle, living in harmony with nature’s rhythms and honoring both the shadow and the light.
Grounded and Grateful: Being Present to Ourselves
In the lifelong dance of learning to care for ourselves and to care for others, we don’t always get to choose which is our primary focus. Yet we know that both our inward- and our outward-turning are inextricably woven together. This Sunday we practice this weaving, recognizing the grounding that all our chaotic feelings can offer, celebrating new members, and thanking our Safety and Security Team for their ministry of care. Where will we direct our care this week?
The Practice of Presence
Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 . We consider the practice of presence as an aspect of our practice of the spiritual discipline of love. To be present with others in the moment requires centering and focused attention on seeing and hearing the other person. To be present for others is to represent … Continue reading The Practice of Presence
Embracing the Brokenness: Letting Light Shine Through
Service of Compassionate Presence Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 You are warmly invited to join us for a transformative service centered on the theme of trauma as an opportunity for growth, healing, and empowerment. Together, we will reframe our past wounds, not as permanent scars, but as openings through which our inner … Continue reading Embracing the Brokenness: Letting Light Shine Through
Our Tapestry of Faith – Every Stitch Matters
Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 We are whole and holy. We are loved beyond all measure. What we do to repair our brokenness keeps everyone inside the circle of love and healing. What can we do to keep our connections strong and secure moving forward? Join us as we celebrate new friends … Continue reading Our Tapestry of Faith – Every Stitch Matters
To Repair the World, What Is Mine to Do?
Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 We gather on this Sunday after the election to refresh our vision of a world repaired by love. This task of repair may seem impossibly large–until we focus on what each of us has to offer and what brings us joy. Come discover what is yours to … Continue reading To Repair the World, What Is Mine to Do?
We Won’t Give Up!
Join us in person or via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/565460176 As Election Day approaches, we bring our hopes and our fears into this welcoming community, and we remember that our work of building beloved community continues no matter what. Using tools from the Revolutionary Love movement launched by Sikh teacher-writer Valarie Kaur, we’ll learn some new ways … Continue reading We Won’t Give Up!