Reflections on “Making Space” – Pohl
Living into community
- gratitude
- keeping promises
- speaking truth
- hospitality
Cultivating the practices that sustain us.
GRATITUDE
Thou hast given me so much, give me one thing more… grateful heart – pulsing out beat of thankfulness for whatever is going on around you.
Communities that struggle are the most joyful > negro spirituals: deep pain, deep joy
We don’t know full stories – how our stories end, be happy with where we are.
Our gratitude is linked to expectations – for some people in the world to be given 3 meals a day > very grateful. Now we can eat whenever we want… it’s a given… a “norm”, we take it for granted and it will take something more/extra/different to be grateful again. Discipline of saying grace.
Have a choice to give out of our burden of wealth. Responsibility to share what we have.
Desire for things to be different vs. grateful for what we have > tension.
Where have we seen models/rituals/rhythms of gratitude done well? > noticing comes before gratitude.
- Credo Tuesday Gathering and prayers
- Lighting candles/prayers for others à physical actions
- The Artists Way affirmations and dates – Julia Cameron
- The OK line
Builds resilience
in the spectrum, not so bad
episode > moves
reflect, build confidence.
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