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Prayer beads serve as a focus for meditation. Much more than a mnemonic aid to prayer, prayer beads engage the senses to create a state of mindfulness.

Find something to hold onto today, the touch of which helps remind you to return to your center.

What connects you to the center of your being? This month, we asked members of the CLF community to reflect on the theme of “centering.”

What is your experience of being centered–socially, spiritually, or physically?

Many cultures around the world sense that the veil between the living and dead is thin at this time of the year, and so prayers to and for the ancestors are common.

Who are the ancestors that you are holding close today?

“Source of stars and planets and water and land
Open our hearts to all of our neighbors
Open our souls to a renewal of faith
Open our hands to join together in the work ahead.”
-Lyn Cox

How can you open yourself today to something new and possible?

“We bow our heads in order to imagine not one path, but many. We imagine a path forward for those who cannot imagine any path forward, because of poor health, financial hardship, family crises, and other roadblocks we cannot begin to understand or imagine.” -D. Scott Cooper

What pathway are you searching for today? How can you imagine it into being?