Our worship theme for this coming Sunday, August 2 is “Living by Heart” – if that sounds familiar, it’s because this is the service Dawn had planned originally for June 21, but shelved in order to focus that Sunday on the aftermath of the mass shooting in Charleston. In this service we will be returning to our summer exploration of spiritual practices - Dawn will be sharing more in depth about her own experience with various spiritual practices, including the discipline of learning poetry by heart. We hope you will join us!
“Spiritual practices…are tools, not ends. They help us to learn to slow down, to pay attention, to focus, or to empty. They are not definitions of spirituality themselves. The deep meaning of spirituality is breath. Breath is the taking in of life-giving essence from the world around us, and the release, in turn, of life-giving essence. It is a metaphor for our interdependencies: the fact that we change and are changed by our environment in a continuous play of creation. Spiritual practices are aimed at helping us understand that connectedness…”
~ Susan Manker-Seale
“Spiritual practices…are tools, not ends. They help us to learn to slow down, to pay attention, to focus, or to empty. They are not definitions of spirituality themselves. The deep meaning of spirituality is breath. Breath is the taking in of life-giving essence from the world around us, and the release, in turn, of life-giving essence. It is a metaphor for our interdependencies: the fact that we change and are changed by our environment in a continuous play of creation. Spiritual practices are aimed at helping us understand that connectedness…”
~ Susan Manker-Seale
