Readings week of November 10th.

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Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses

*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*

Monday, November 10th 

Chants: 

Sink into the taproot of your heart – Heather Ruce

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, deep within and all around – Henry Schoenfield

Tuesday, November 11th

Chant: Come be with me, all you who carry heavy burdens, I will give you rest, I will give you rest – chanted by Colleen Thomas

Wednesday, November 12th

Reading: "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena... It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." – Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot

Chant: Surrender to the beauty, become a mighty kindness – Elizabeth Combs

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