Peace Seeking Mission

If we are going to have a more peaceful world it will be because each of us does peace work...

What is one thing I will do today to change the energy I bring to my interactions with others and with creation?

Our social/political discourse is one place to start. Am I aware of tone and attitude? Does the way I express my opinion  open the door to dialogue and understanding?  Or does it incite--reinforcing aggression, fear, anger...?

Random acts of kindness, affirmation and beauty...

What ideas do you have for ways to help build our path to peace?

Inchworm

This reflection was inspired by my struggle with a particular pose in the Sun Salutation sequence in yoga.  I learned this name "Inchworm" for this posture and have been trying to focus on improving that step (not always successfully--it's still more frequently a flop than a posture).  However I think I am actually stretching, practicing, truly inching into it.

Inchworm 

     Slow, steady progress

     inch by inch

     know your direction intention

     Go slow but go

     Crawling is a humble path

     the way beautiful babies begin

     and humble creatures remain

     Slow, steady progress

     when learning perhaps not an inch

     maybe only half at a time

     learn how

     choose when and where

     go humbly,  faithfully

     inch by inch

     

Retreat Work: "Mindful"

Mindful, holy hope leads the 

way to simple, peaceful

what is unknown, hard, slow

declutter once, try, at least

then joy and purpose

be silent and listen to the

glaciers and the galaxies

and to your sisters

and violent world harder 

Farewell

Just had the wake for Sister Blanche Thiele, whose funeral will take place tomorrow.  Sister Blanche inspired this blog post in 2009.