Heart Chakra Day!
Agenda
- Opening words
- Love as it relates to our work; reflections on opening words
- Brief Check in, including homework from last call
Homework from last call: Arthur: Share spreadsheet ... not yet Brandon: Call water project people again ... two messages Shelley: Asking friends what they care about and what they see is missing in spiritual communities of which they are a part ... will try part B again Mickki: Launch the GrowLocalColorado.org site and schedule trainings to support others in building/caring for site ... not sure if domain pointed yet All: look at spreadsheet and come to next week's call with own reflections ... not yet preferred emails: brandon@thesanders.us, shelley@thesanders.us, ted@chicagohumanist.org All: Creating the space/listening for other people to share why what we're doing (church, work, projects) is inspiring to them and why it matters.
- Circles of Participation - Art hasn't completed spreadsheet ... we will talk about this another time
- Potential conversation: Distinguishing Ministerial Tracks
- Environment / nature (natural systems, biodiversity, study of ecosystems)
- Individuals (interpersonal communication, counseling)
- Community (group process, mediation, governance, facilitation, group dynamic stuff)
- Business (flows of cross-fertilization, ideas, value, etc. resource management)
- Youth (everything related to young people, including youth leadership programs)
- Food system (planting, preserving, nutrition, serving)
- Health & wellness
- Energy
- Ecovillages (as ministerial training grounds / immersive internships)
- Education / culture / learning / stories / history / language
- Building the purpose-driven social critter (Arthur's opaque language about the larger social dynamics/systems)
Inquiry about ministerial tracks:
- how do we include the passionate, warrior-type social justice activists who are working to change the already existing systems in the above spheres of ministry?
- how can we move the "fight against" energy into a generative domain, where actions are moved higher up in the drainage?
- what language can we use to include them/help them find their place while simultaneously moving them into a more effective/generative space? Empowering the warrior change agents to alter the current/existing systems
...change agents, activating change, active leadership (blerg) ...
Oooh! We're creating new spheres/new contexts for nurturing human activities / collaboration. We need new language to create the context for these spheres -
Opening words
From Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Closing Words
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran To be of use, by Marge Pearcy Next Time: Shelley
Next Week
The next call is 2/28, led by Shelley Arthur will share spreadsheet, but Shelley can create something for all of us. :)