Thank you for watching our session highlighting the practice and embodiment of gratitude in our daily lives. This video features the "Gift of Life".
Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.
Opening prayer: Spark of God Within by Joyce Rupp
Spark of God, Spirit of Life!
I remember and celebrate your dwelling within me.
Divine Fire, you never waver in your faithful presence.
Amid the seasons of life, you are my inner illumination.
Ever-present LIght, the spark of your inspiration has been with me
in every moment of my life, always available to lead and guide me.
Eternal Joy, the dancing flames of your joy are reflected
in my happiness and in the many ways that I delight in life.
Sprit of God, your fiery presence gives me passion
for what is vital and deserving of my enthusiasm.
Blazing Love, the radiant glow of your compassion fills me
with awareness, kindness, and understanding.
Purifying Flame, your refining fire transforms me
as I experience life's sorrow, pain, and discouragement.
Radiant Presence, your steady flame of unconditional love
kindles my faithful and enduring relationships.
Luminous One, you breathed love into me at my birthing
and your love will be with me as I breathe my last.
Thank you for being a shining Spark of LIfe within me.
-Joyce Rupp
Closing prayer, from Brian Swimme’s The Universe is a Green Dragon:
That star could not, by itself,
become aware of its own beauty or sacrifice.
But the star can, through us, reflect back on itself. In a sense,
YOU ARE THE STAR.
Look at your hand, - do you claim it as your own?
Every element was forged in temperatures a million times hotter than molten rock,
each atom fashioned in the blazing heat of the star
Your eyes, your brain, your bones, all of you
is composed of the star's creations.
YOU ARE THAT STAR,
brought into a farm of life that enables life to reflect on itself
-Brian Swimme
Closing prayer in Faber Center group:
Serenity Prayer
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
Actions to cultivate gratitude for self:
• Celebrate your strengths.
• Share them with others!
• Practice self-care-take care of your basic needs, nourish yourself with healthy activities, proper sleep, and social interactions.
• Set boundaries-set limits or say no to those things that cause harm to you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
• Pray the examen.
• Use artworks from the Haggerty collection to investigate how artists celebrate life.
12 ноя 2020
