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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Summarizing Our Month of Healing

Nov 27 2020

Summarizing Our Month of Healing

Sara Lewis

This month’s theme was “Healing”, a theme I found very appropriate as we dealt with a divisive national election and an ongoing global pandemic. The theme wove its way through our congregational life for all of November:

  • Mary spoke to our need to Heal Our Democracy in the worship service on November 8th: https://vimeo.com/477325380 She then asked us to reflect on: What does the practice of democracy mean to you?
  • The children explored how relationships sometimes need healing in their childrens’ chapel with the story “Let’s Be Enemies” https://youtu.be/-I6Gir29hLk by Janice May Udry. When have you had a relationship that needed healing? How did you go about healing it?
  • Mary, Rev. Eric Ness, and Troy led Thursday Spiritual Practices on the theme of healing: https://vimeo.com/476457752
  • Covenant Circles met to discuss the theme, and many explored on their own as well. New Member Liz Clement sent me this link, to a song that has been meaningful to her and to share with others: These Wilder Things by Ruth Moody https://youtu.be/mO-vTrt2urg
  • And the Youth Group made a playlist together of music that they find healing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT_0n9WSn-P9WwZXNnoUwnYfeBX_lrTpi

You can see all these resources and inspirations (and add your own!) on the Healing theme padlet: November Theme: Healing (padlet.org)

It has been a very meaningful and appropriate theme for this month, and I want to say thank you to all who have done the work of healing. Healing is work; it doesn’t just happen by itself. Whatever kind of healing you are engaged in, whether it is physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, ancestral, or societal – you will need to be resourced and renewed to be able to do the work. I hope this month you have received some of that resourcing and renewing, and that if you have you also find a way to pass it forward, to be the person who opens the door and then makes sure that others get through it too.

May it be so, for us all.

Written by Jo Sahlin · Categorized: Uncategorized

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