What a wonderful conversation! When I see the same theme pop up several places in my reading and listening, I know Holy Spirit is trying to get me to pay attention. That theme is "community." It has appeared on my "radar screen" recently at church, in my spiritual reading, and even in my online marketing groups where those who aspire to heart-centered business and marketing are taught the power of growing community around their service or offerings. So thank you for giving me yet another perspective on the concept of Community.
I recently finished reading Faith After Doubt by Brian McLaren. After referencing Rumi’s poem, Out Beyond Ideas, a page or two later Brian writes, “…a new center was emerging for me, a center that didn’t require agreement to long lists of beliefs but rather that required my heart to grow deeper in faith expressing itself in love.” He then notes that David Wilcox and his wife Nance Petit set this Rumi poem to music. I hope it’s okay to share this link. It’s a beautiful song.
Oh my! What synchronicity. There was a musical gathering here this week at my retirement community, which I've never attended before. I went to support a new resident who is in deep grief over her husband's sudden death. At one point in the program, one of the residents from the Alzheimer's unit was clearly taken w/the music. She got up, her face slightly softened from its usual stony demeanor, and reached for the microphone of the singer, who tried to turn away. A staff member, seeing this, walked calmly through the crowd, gently grasped the woman's uplifted reaching hand, placed an arm around her waist, and began a quiet dance w/her. There were no longer two people in the scene, but One Presence, and only THE dance - one of compassion and grace and tenderness. It moved me to tears, and I thought THIS is who we are, if we can only hear the call of the music deep within.
What a wonderful conversation! When I see the same theme pop up several places in my reading and listening, I know Holy Spirit is trying to get me to pay attention. That theme is "community." It has appeared on my "radar screen" recently at church, in my spiritual reading, and even in my online marketing groups where those who aspire to heart-centered business and marketing are taught the power of growing community around their service or offerings. So thank you for giving me yet another perspective on the concept of Community.
Thank you for this wonderful conversation.
I recently finished reading Faith After Doubt by Brian McLaren. After referencing Rumi’s poem, Out Beyond Ideas, a page or two later Brian writes, “…a new center was emerging for me, a center that didn’t require agreement to long lists of beliefs but rather that required my heart to grow deeper in faith expressing itself in love.” He then notes that David Wilcox and his wife Nance Petit set this Rumi poem to music. I hope it’s okay to share this link. It’s a beautiful song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWLg30mEWRo&pp=ygUuZGF2aWQgd2lsY294IGFuZCBuYW5jeSBwZXR0aXMgb3V0IGJleW9uZCBpZGVhcw%3D%3D
Thank you for The Growing Edge podcast. I always find your guests, topics and conversations enriching and inspiring.
Peace
Argaille
A poem "wrote me" on Apr. 1st!🙂
Inspired by quote from John O'Donoughue, Irish Poet, Writer, "May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder."
Open to God's World!
Open to God's World, like a flag unfurled.
Each day is a New Beginning.
Release "yester-thoughts," "yester-shoulds,"
"yester-oughts,"
Set your heart and soul a'grinning.
For this is the day the Lord has made,
Not you, nor I, but God has made!
So let's fill up
Our "Today" big cup!
Fill up with Gratefulness
In good times and bad.
Fill up with Healing
When you're feeling sad.
Fill up with Love for others, for your self.
Fill up with dreams you take
Down from the "shelf"
Of "I can't," or "I won't,"
Or "There's just no time,"
Fill up with God's "Yes" in Nature sublime.
Go hug a tree; stretch your arms to the sky!
Open to God's World.
You'll be blessed when you try!
Oh my! What synchronicity. There was a musical gathering here this week at my retirement community, which I've never attended before. I went to support a new resident who is in deep grief over her husband's sudden death. At one point in the program, one of the residents from the Alzheimer's unit was clearly taken w/the music. She got up, her face slightly softened from its usual stony demeanor, and reached for the microphone of the singer, who tried to turn away. A staff member, seeing this, walked calmly through the crowd, gently grasped the woman's uplifted reaching hand, placed an arm around her waist, and began a quiet dance w/her. There were no longer two people in the scene, but One Presence, and only THE dance - one of compassion and grace and tenderness. It moved me to tears, and I thought THIS is who we are, if we can only hear the call of the music deep within.