The Better Party
This week’s home practice:
This week, practice prayer by contemplating only two words: “I AM.”
Pay attention. Is there any sense of doubt? Sit in the discomfort and continue the practice until it becomes more comfortable.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Dr. Debra Hobbs
Keepers of the Flames: Sue Krake and Mirtha Nebker
Blessing the Offering: Mirtha Nebeker
Color My World
This week’s home practice:
Read this affirmation each day, first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening:
Living, loving, Spirit, in this moment of peace, quiet and tranquility I enter the silence. I acknowledge your Presence within me, and I release doubt and fear, knowing you are always with me, guiding my every step as I search and discover the journey that is mine to travel. And so it is. Amen.
Do a 5-minute silent meditation after reading the affirmation each time.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Rev. Felicia Searcy
Keepers of the Flames: Silvana Servadio and Laura Kass
Blessing the Offering: Elizabeth Quinn-Worrall
Thank You For Everything
This week’s home practice:
Something challenging will come up for you this week. When it does:
Say thank you
Pour yourself in
Find out what the gift is
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Laura Kass
Keepers of the Flames: Silvana Servadio and Dr. Debra Hobbs
Blessing the Offering: Mary Ahls
The Initial Vibration
This week’s home practice:
Find time for play this week. Do something fun that invites you into the memory of “that very first day”… the initial vibration of your being.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Rev. William Gill
Keepers of the Flames: Mary Ahls and Laura Kass
Blessing the Offering: Laura Kass
Full Stop... and Resume
This week’s home practice:
Find time each day to stop; let it be a purposeful, FULL STOP.
Reflect in that moment on Peace, Love, Compassion and what these things mean to you, as you.
Then resume aligned with what you find.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Mary Ahls
Keepers of the Flames: Beryl Varno & Laraine Pritts
Blessing the Offering: Laura Kass
A Step Beyond the Rain
This week’s home practice:
Practice consistent loving kindness this week through acts of service. There is no wrong way to serve. No act is too small to be of service.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Elizabeth Quinn-Worrall
Keepers of the Flames: Laura Kass & Lynn Peterson
Blessing the Offering: Silvana Servadio
LAW School
This week’s home practice:
Be mindful of your language. Listen actively.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Dr. Debra Hobbs
Keepers of the Flames: Sue Krake and Laura Fernandez
Blessing the Offering: Laura Fernandez
There's Nothing To It
This week’s home practice:
Find time to play this week. Make a playdate for yourself and keep it! Explore your world with childlike wonder. Let your imagination run wild!
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Ruth Starwell
Keepers of the Flames: Laraine Pritts and Sue Krake
Blessing the Offering: Dr. Debra Hobbs
The Leaning
This week’s home practice:
Notice something you fear. Ask yourself:
What justifies this fear?
What is an alternative to this perceived fear?
What am I empowered to create?
Actively demonstrate calmness. Breathe through purposeful change.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Rev. William Gill
Keepers of the Flames: Laraine Pritts and Dr. Debra Hobbs
Blessing the Offering: Sherie Hoffman
It Takes a Village
This week’s home practice:
Connect with someone new, to explore your common-unity.
This week’s service participants:
Reading/Affirmation/Prayer: Mary Ahls
Keepers of the Flames: Mary Ahls and Beryl Varno
Blessing the Offering: Mirtha Nebeker