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No images? Click here Saturday, September 17, 2022 Richard Rohr's Daily MeditationsFrom the Center for Action and Contemplation Week Thirty-Seven Summary and Practice ForgivenessSeptember 11–September 17, 2022
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week Thirty-Seven Practice Inner Peace Dance—80 Percent StillnessMovement can help recenter you in your body and unlock your innate wisdom. This peace is the peace to be who you are without worry. It is not a staged or pious peace. It isn’t forced or controlled. It is a personal peace that loosens you and brings you back to the heartbeat of humanity. To develop peace in yourself makes you the best peace mediator you can be. She offers this practice as a way of getting in touch with those spaces of stillness within ourselves: Take a deep breath. Let it out with a sigh. With one arm or your whole body, make a shape. Breathe into the shape, becoming present to it. Shifting from one shape or posture to another, it is important to indulge the stillness. Incorporating music, dance with 80 percent stillness (or whatever is the best percentage for you right now). Your shapes can transition with quick energetic shifts or slow ones. It is essential to breathe. Sometimes sighing or “toning” while moving keeps the breath alive and the quiet energy flowing. Dancing with gestures and stillness, invite forgiveness for yourself or others. Lift those you cannot forgive to your higher power. If you like, imagine creating ripples of peace out into the world. Experience a version of this practice through video and sound. Cynthia Winton-Henry, “Dancing Peace and Forgiveness,” in The Forgiveness Handbook: Spiritual Wisdom and Practice for the Journey to Freedom, Healing and Peace, created by the editors at SkyLight Paths (Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2015), 199, 201–202.
Image credit: Katrina Lillian Sorrentino, Entelechy 4, (detail), 2022, photograph, Spain, used with permission. Belinda Rain, Meadow (detail), 1972, photograph, California, public domain. Katrina Lillian Sorrentino, Entelechy 11, (detail), 2022, photograph, Spain, used with permission. Jenna Keiper & Leslye Colvin, 2022, triptych art, United States. Click here to enlarge image. This week’s images appear in a form inspired by early Christian/Catholic triptych art: a threefold form that tells a unified story. Image inspiration: Seeing what is. Acknowledging. Clearing the air. After the vines are ripped from the wall, allowing new growth. Explore Further. . .Read about dancing the stories of our lives as a spiritual practice. Learn more about this year’s theme Nothing Stands Alone. Meet the team behind the Daily Meditations. Prayer For Our CommunityGod, Lord of all creation, lover of life and of everything, please help us to love in our very small way what You love infinitely and everywhere. We thank You that we can offer just this one prayer and that will be more than enough, because in reality every thing and every one is connected, and nothing stands alone. To pray for one part is really to pray for the whole, and so we do. Help us each day to stand for love, for healing, for the good, for the diverse unity of the Body of Christ and all creation, because we know this is what You desire: as Jesus prayed, that all may be one. We offer our prayer together with all the holy names of God, we offer our prayer together with Christ, our Lord. Amen. Listen to Father Richard pray this prayer aloud. JOIN NOWWas this email forwarded to you? Explore Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations archive at cac.org. Sign-up for the monthly newsletter from the Center for Action and Contemplation for the latest news about our programs, including new books, podcasts, events, and online learning opportunities. The work of the Center for Action and Contemplation is possible only because of people like you! Learn more about how you can help support this work. If you would like to change how you receive these emails you can update your preferences or unsubscribe from our list.
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