Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Link to this week’s Advent devotional: joy. WEEK of JOY Sun, Dec 13 – DAY 15 Joy becomes the focus of our candle-lighting this week. How does the light of joy shine in your life? One question we often ask is the distinction between joy and happiness. Happiness is often described as an emotional[…]
Sat, Dec 12 – DAY 14 World peace has other connotations. It can mean harmonious, responsible connection with Creation. It may apply to how we engage the natural world in which we live. Do we actively tend to the needs of the environment in which we live? Do we find out what is out[…]
Fri, Dec 11 – DAY 13 Avoiding conflict does not bring peace. Instead it suppresses issues that require attention and change. Peace, rather than sidestepping controversy, looks into the eyes of what must be faced. Requires awareness and willingness to learn. Welcomes differences as a place of growth and change. Names forgotten or hidden issues,[…]
Thurs, Dec 10 – DAY 12 Communal peace requires a different form of attention and advocacy. By our choices, with our voices, through our actions, we foster local peace. While some people may be in positions to affect national and global peace through high-level policy and practices, many of us shape peace through regional and[…]
Wed, Dec 9 – DAY 11 Peace may require healing, too. It could involve addressing internal hurts and histories. What do you need to reclaim your whole and holy self? To make your own wellbeing a priority, as you would another’s? Healing may also be a bodily experience. Perhaps you live with a condition, craving,[…]
