The congregation’s theme of the month for January is FINDING (Y)OUR CENTER.

As we start a new year, almost 3 years into pandemic shake-up, I invite us all to find our center. What is our center?

For me, our center is an embodied sense of well-being and presence that includes wise body, beautiful heart, responsive mind and boundless awareness. It’s the home of the “deepest wisest self,”of “the still small voice within.”

A Soul Matters author writes,”[Your center is] not simply a sense of peace and calm; it’s also being challenged and pushed. What you hear in this deep space is not just, “‘Rest and Breathe,’ but also, ‘Take a deep breath and jump!’ We encounter an invitation there, not just a relaxation. [Our experience of our center is] a still point, yes. But a point upon which we pivot and turn to something new.”

However you define and experience your center, may we support each other in living from that unified, still-point within. May we rest and breathe together. And may we inspire each other to turn toward something new life emerging and jump – at times, jumping together!

Rev. Mary