Morning Meditation, April 29, 2020
Join Rev. Chris Kell as she focuses on the month of Ramadan for our meditation. Have a wonderful day!
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Morning Meditation, April 28, 2020
Join us as we bless this new day, with readings from John O’Donohue.
From John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings:
A MORNING OFFERING
I bless the night that nourished my heart
To set the ghosts of longing free
Into the flow and figure of dream
That went to harvest from the dark
Bread for the hunger no one sees.
All that is eternal in me
Welcomes the wonder of this day,
The field of brightness it creates
Offering time for each thing
To arise and illuminate.
I place on the altar of dawn:
The quiet loyalty of breath,
The tent of thought where I shelter,
Waves of desire I am shore to
And all beauty drawn to the eye.
May my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.
May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.
and from the same book:
ON WAKING
I give thanks for arriving
Safely in a new dawn,
For the gift of eyes
To see the world,
The gift of mind
To feel at home
In my life.
The waves of possibility
Breaking on the shore of dawn,
The harvest of the past
That awaits my hunger,
And all the furtherings
This new day will bring.
Have a wonderful day!
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Morning Meditation, April 24, 2020
We continue today our focus on the richness of silence. Enjoy this quiet time, along with readings from M. Basil Pennington and Marianne Williamson.
From M. Basil Pennington:
Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the fake self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self. It is a harrowing journey, a death to self – the false self – and no one wants to die. But it is the only path to life, to freedom, to peace, to true love. And it begins with silence. We cannot give ourselves in love if we do not know and possess ourselves. This is the great value of silence. It is the pathway to all we truly want.
And from Marianne Williamson:
In a noisy world, seek the silence in your heart. And through the power of silence, the energies of chaos will be brought back to harmony – not by you, but through you, as all miracles are. When we visit this silence regularly, particularly in the morning, then the days of our lives become lit from above. Darkness and fear are cast from our midst, slowly at first, one moment at a time. Ultimately, all darkness will be gone from every heart.
Have a wonderful day!
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Morning Meditation, April 23, 2020
Our focus today is on silence. Please enjoy our silent meditation, as well as readings from Thomas Merton and Richard Rohr.
From Father Richard Rohr:
Silence has a life of its own. It is not just that which is around words and underneath images and events. It is a being in itself to which we can relate and become intimately familiar… Philosophically, we would say being is that foundational quality which precedes all other attributes. Silence is at the very foundation of all reality—naked being, if you will.
When we connect with silence as a living, primordial presence, we can then see all other things—and experience them deeply—inside that container. Silence is not just an absence, but a primal presence… We must find a way to return to this place, live in this place, abide in this place of inner silence.
And from Thomas Merton:
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Morning Meditation, April 22, 2020
Enjoy today’s meditation with Rev. Chris Kell, as she explores the richness of surrender.
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