Dear Friends,

We hope that you are safe and well.

Today's Meditation is a refrection from Rumi. It was sent to us by Irene Desharnais from her Genesis Prayer Group.

We invite you to join us as we commit ourselves to working tirelessly to end systemic and structural racism in our society, in the church, in healthcare, in the workplace--wherever it shows up so that everyone may come to have more abundant life. May this meditation nourish our contemplative-active hearts and sustain all of us in action.

In the spirit of our philosophy of co-creating community and our awareness that the Spirit speaks through each of us, we invite you to share your meditations with us as well. We truly believe that it is God's economy of abundance: when we share our blessings, our thoughts, our feelings, we are all made richer.

We hope and pray that you find peace, healing, hope and the infusion of joy in your life!

With our love and care,

Ron and Jean

MEDITATION 436: Rumi

The Persian poet Rumi reminds us of the possibility of enjoying and resting upon a

sense of belonging and wholeness when he says,

In times of sudden danger most people call out, “O my God!”

Why would they keep doing this if it didn’t help?

Only a fool keeps going back where nothing happens.

The whole world lives within a safeguarding, fish inside waves, birds held in the sky, the elephant, the wolf, the lion as [s]he hunts, the dragon, the ant,the waiting snake,

even the ground, the air,

the water, every spark floating up from the fire,

all subsist, exist, are held in the divine. Nothing

is ever alone for a single moment.

All giving comes from There, No matter who

you think you put your open hand out

toward, it’s That which gives.

Taken from A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield, 1993, (p. 210)