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On Thursday nights we gather for an open form Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful Gathering. The purpose of this time together is to practice love and honest sharing, that we might be of use together in expanding our understanding and collective care. This is a time to practice love together.
All people are welcome, all perspectives, all identities.
You are welcome to share or stay silent. To keep your camera on or off.
We invite you to make this a time of personal mediation in community. We find ZOOM to be a powerful opportunity to connect with others through the safety and solitude of your own home.
Our gathering follows the following format:
BE love.
We will begin with 12 minutes to Be Love together. What does that look like? I’ll offer a meditation to ground us, but for these 12 minutes you do you! Maybe for you Be Love means checking in with your body and taking care of its needs, making a sandwich or a cup of tea. Maybe you have a devotional practice or a breathing practice or a prayer or meditation or movement practice that helps you remember that you are love. 12 minutes to come into the present moment, noticing and accepting what’s there, and touching if possible that essential level beneath all joys and pleasures, sorrows and frustrations where everything ultimately is okay.
BE honest.
Then we will take time to Be Honest with each other. Each person is given 7 minutes to share. Be honest about what? How we are growing. How we are being challenged/thwarted/tested/tried. How we are being beckoned / called / inspired / consoled. What meaning and hope and understanding and peace are we finding / making / learning from it all. For many of us this may be the hardest part. We are so used to speaking to fulfill some external expectation. We speak to impress, to amuse, to argue, or to obfuscate. We rarely if ever speak honestly to share our inner experiences, avoiding uncomfortable vulnerability. But it’s time to start. Honesty and vulnerability are the path to wisdom. Sharing is completely optional.
BE useful.
Then lastly we will Be Useful. 3 minutes each. 7 people. Something you appreciated about the group experience. An action you are ready to take. A creative endeavor you want to invite others into. A blessing, a wish, an intuitive message, a benediction, a song, a jig, whatever! We will send each other on our way with love and encouragement, maybe a laugh, maybe a smile, maybe a new awareness that could feel any manner of ways. We will refrain from advice giving and “shoulds,” keeping close to our own experience.