The ancestors who shape our lives are not all related to us. Many are spiritual ancestors, whose teachings and guidance live on in us.
Who are your spiritual ancestors?
Mitochondrial Gift
“Our history is always with us. Across organisms
offspring receive a maternal inheritance, DNA:
strands of instructions, twisted together
and reaching into the future”
-from “Mitochondrial Gift, by Julián Jamaica Soto
What are the genetic gifts you carry from your ancestors?
Ancestors
This month, we will be thinking about the spiritual and physical gifts given to us by our ancestors. We invoke the cloud of beneficial ancestors to surround us with their love.
Who are the beneficial ancestors whose love surrounds you today?
Fixing Things
We have been taught, again and again, that resources are endless and things are disposable. We have been taught by our violent, extractive, capitalist system to throw things away when they are broken. Instead, let us turn our attention to fixing things that are broken, to creating things of durability, and to learning how to repair. The lessons learned are more than just mechanical.
Fix something that is broken today.
Forgiveness
What does it mean to forgive someone who has made amends, who has apologized, who has repented for the ways they have hurt you? Who do you practice forgiveness for? What are the boundaries and limits of forgiveness? How do we move ahead together in love?
What does forgiveness mean to you?