Readings week of October 26th.
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Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses
*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*
Monday, October 26th with Lacey
Reading:
May I/we be anchored, tethered
May I/we be surrendered, trusting
May I/we be connected, inter-abiding
May I/we be free, wide
Chant: Draw us deeper into silence, draw us into you. Draw us deeper into stillness, draw us into you. — Henry Schoenfield
Tuesday, October 27th with LeMel
Reading: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:7 KJV
Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
— Philippians 4:6-7 The Message
Even Though We Talked About Difficult Things,
the evening still bloomed with laughter,
good food and singing,
becoming ongoingly sweeter.
Who could blame me for wanting it
to last forever—or if not forever,
at least for a few moments longer,
and if not for a few moments longer,
well perhaps I could just save a few
seeds of the pleasure, keep them
intact like the small red jewels that hide
inside a pomegranate, something
compact I might keep by my bedside
or slip into my backpack to pull out
when I need to remember how easily
joy can grow, joy—possible as a
thick-skinned fruit that holds translucent
ruby-like goodness inside—joy that ripens,
even as everything falls apart.
— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Chant:
— LeMel Firestone-Palerm
Wednesday, October 28th with Lacey
Reading: Our spiritual awareness seems to be given to us in order to hone in on and not lose touch with that “point or spark of pure truth” at the core of our being, from which both the true compass track of our life and our existential conviction of belonging emanate. That is what the magnetic pull is all about. And as we learn gradually to trust it and let it draw us along, we discover that those core fears of the egoic level – that something terrible can happen to us, that we can fall out of God or suffer irreparable harm – do not compute in these deeper waters of our being. Try as we will, we simply cannot find them there. They can only affect us when we are at the surface of ourselves.
— Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope, p.51
The clear bead at the center changes everything.
There are no edges to my loving now.
I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another,
But if there's no wall, there's no need for fitting the window, or the latch.
— Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Chant: Be right here, in the Heart of God — Henry Schoenfield
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