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This Sunday, we celebrate the sacred wisdom offered by the ancient celebration of the winter solstice. We embrace winter’s presence, imbuing our lives with blessings in this season of hope, renewal, introspection, and contemplation. Fostered in the unique beauty of the dark, the cold, and the silence, we cultivate a new self, brought to the world during this season of the returning sun.
This Sunday, we welcome the true blessing that is presence in the current moment. Together we explore how this practice frees us from the depression of living in the past and the anxiety of residing in the future, while welcoming the peace that arises when we are fully present in the now. When we give this to ourselves, we are further able to cultivate full and…
This Sunday, we lift up and celebrate sacred and ancient indigenous knowledge, reflecting on lessons of a grateful existence. Through this commitment to the art of gratitude, we cultivate a sense of appreciation of the fullness of life. How can this indigenous practice reorient us in a life of abundant blessings?
This week, we explore the vulnerable and intimate experience of interpersonal repair. By exploring a Jewish practice as articulated by the philosopher Maimonides, we engage on a journey of making amends. This journey is both victim-centered and self-transformational, and it neither begins or ends in apology. Centered in the wisdom of the spirit and with the intention of initiating deep healing to those…
This Sunday, we gather in a space of uncertainty and brokenness. Building upon our monthly theme, I invite us into a reflection on the theology of repair. We cultivate that which grounds us amidst any situation where the heart, spirit, and body are in a state of disease. What is broken can be made whole, a Jewish wisdom tale tells us. We…