Raspberry
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Almost October, and there it was,
draped over the fence,
ripe as July, and as seductive—
a stranger’s bit of paradise. Read more →
A Prayer for Labor Day
“We’re thinking about resistance more than resilience here in New Orleans.” -Rev De Vandiver, ten year anniversary of The Flood
Here’s to all who resist!
Resist assimilation
Resist cooptation
Resist oppression
Resist ignorance
Resist consumerism
Resist the certainty of others’ diagnoses
Resist complacency
Resist numbing out
Resist the same old same old
Resist being taken advantage of
Resist the hissed whisper to be quiet, settle down
Resist what is given, and instead create what is needed.
Here’s to all who create!
Create new stories, with new life springing forth
Create laughter and tears
Create gardens and delicious meals from them
Create music and its deep companionship
Create relationships that defy labels
Create deep rootsCreate beauty
Create courageous actions
Create what will carry us to a new day.
Here’s to the new day!
May it dawn bright for all, condemning none to nightmares
May it bring hope grounded in reason to hope
May it bring evidence for hearts to trust that love is real
May it bring joy and the simple abundance of enough.
Here’s to Labor Day, to the humble imperfect work of us all.
Seen and unseen, paid and unpaid, respected and unrespected.
Here’s to our real work together
A Forgiveness Ritual
Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs wrote a ritual of forgiveness for Unitarian Universalists, based on the Jewish Yom Kippur service. In this ritual, everyone repeats: “I forgive myself and I forgive you. We begin again in love.”
When someone hurts us, or we hurt others, the goal is not only that the person who was hurt forgives, we also need to forgive ourselves, and to start over in love. For those times when someone hurts you, or you hurt someone else, you might want to keep this in your pocket: “I forgive myself and I forgive you. We begin again in love.”
A Lesson in Forgiveness
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The Days of Awe—the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—are considered the High Holy Days in the Jewish tradition—significant moments that even secular Jews may celebrate in some fashion. It’s the New Year, after all. Read more →
Forgiving the Broken
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I believe that our human survival depends on waking up to our connection with the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Read more →
Radical Forgiveness (Excerpt)
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Corrie ten Boom was living with her older sister and her father in Amsterdam when Holland was occupied by the Nazis. Read more →
Hall of Records
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In the Administrative Department of my heart, which is down the hall from Feelings, Major, I wrote down the time you offended me. Read more →
Finding Forgiveness
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Note from Meg: As we welcome Danny Givens as our new CLF prison chaplain, I’ve asked him to take my place in this issue to share some thoughts on forgiveness. Read more →
An Opportunity to Give
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One thing is certain, each one of us will be given opportunity after opportunity to practice forgiveness towards ourselves and others over the course of our lives. Read more →
REsources for Living
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The evening of September 22nd this year marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which is often known as the Day of Atonement. Read more →
