SESSION 13 – SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL PRACTICE

JULY, 2009

ADAPTED FROM THE UU CHURCH IN EUGENE, OREGON

Note:  There are no quotes for this session

Chalice:  “A spiritual practice is any regular, intentional activity that serves to significantly deepen the quality and content of your relationship with the miracle of life.”

Scott Alexander

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Reading:  “It is my practice to take time to consciously acknowledge the gift of life most every day.  I look at the world about me and acknowledge awe before the miracles of nature.  I acknowledge the joy of family, the blessings of health and the comfort of substantial material possessions.  It took me a while to realize that this practice is actually meditation, perhaps it is prayer.  It is a personal religious ritual, simple and at the same time complex and, I believe, very Unitarian Universalist. “

Denise Davidoff

Quotes from the Common Bowl:  see attached

Life Questions:

1.  Do you have a particular spiritual practice?  How did you begin identifying it and using it?

2.  Do you believe that individuals who engage in regular spiritual practice have an impact on the well-being of the larger world?

3.  Are there any spiritual practices you had growing up that are still part of your life?

4.  What do you think is the goal of regular spiritual practice – if any?

Closing ritual: May the light around us guide our footsteps, and hold us fast to the best ad most righteous that we seek.  May the darkness around us nurture our dreams, and give us rest so that we may give ourselves to the work of our world.  Let us seek to remember the wholeness of our lives, the weaving of light and shadow in this great and astonishing dance in which we move.

Kathleen McTigue

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