In the United States, the first Monday of September is Labor Day, and celebrates work, organizing, and mutual support.
How are work and spirit linked in your mind and heart? How can labor be part of your spiritual practice?
Building
As we work together to build structures and institutions that serve justice and liberation, we must make sure that our construction is reinforced so that it can withstand the forces that seek to tear it back down.
What are you building? How are you reinforcing it?
Storm
In recent weeks, millions of people around the world have been displaced from their homes because of storms, floods, fires, and wars. We hold them in our hearts and together work for their survival.
What is displacing you from solid spiritual ground today? How can you find a stable place to recover?
Nest
Animals carefully construct nests to cradle babies and provide shelter and safety for themselves. They see hatching, and growing, and first flight.
How can you make a space for growth today?
Shelter
An old Irish proverb says that “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”
How are others providing shelter for you today? How do (or can) you provide shelter for others?