Does life ever seem like a moving sidewalk? Do you ever wonder how you got here? Maybe taking a pause and going back to your beginnings can help shape your way forward. Perhaps there’s some baggage to shed to lighten the load … read more.
Inspired by a recent trip to Mexico and some time spent on the beach there, we are going to take a look at a Mesoamerican spiritual practice involving the Four Directions + 1. We will honor our ancestors, the arts that bring beauty … read more.
How practicing what we preached (belonging, compassion, gratitude, hope, resistance, resilience, paying attention, possibility, and curiosity) have given us glimpses of flourishing together. Let’s share stories of those hopeful glimpses, and send ourselves into summer ready to spread light, love, and hope. Let the flourishing … read more.
The kinds of questions we ask, and the manner in which we ask them, hold great power in fostering our growth in personal awareness, relationships, and our connections to one another, ourselves, and all of the universe. Let’s get together and ask about what we’re … read more.
We’ll talk about how Joan Chittister, L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz, and Carrie Newcomer encourage us to embrace possibility. We’ll need courage, heart, and the willingness to trust the wisdom within and around us. We can do this hard thing!
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Oftentimes aggressive pushback seems like the only way to resist. But sometimes it’s just too hard to be hard. How can we practice resistance in softer ways? Can gentleness be resistance? Let’s talk about it.
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Come and share your thoughts of gratitude. We will be using the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address to help us pay grateful attention to the gifts of creation that surround us and of which we are a vital part. This will be a participation reflection! Can’t wait … read more.
Join us as we explore how to be compassionate without shutting down or burning out. Let’s reflect on how to discern what is ours to do, how to care for ourselves without ignoring the needs of others, and how to remain open to those who … read more.
Greg Boyle, Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, has spent over 20 years working with gang members leaving prison. His latest book, Cherished Belonging, affirms that every person is unshakably good, and our true mission is to love. When we forget … read more.
How do we practice the gift of presence in our everyday lives? How do we get beyond what divides us and embrace what unites us? How do we see ourselves as gift? How do we see the other as gift? Guided by the spirit of … read more.
