“No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I’m clinging. It sounds an echo in my soul–how can I keep from singing?” -Robert W. Lowry
What are the ways you bring calm to your body and/or your spirit? Take time to practice them today.
Breaking Bread
“Let us give thanks for the interdependent web that brought food to our tables, for the spirits that gave of themselves so that we might eat, for the bended backs that labored in the hot sun and all the carriers that reached their destinations. In this rich well of appreciation, let us stretch our hand across the table of abundance, pressing lifeline against lifeline, giving thanks that we can do so, and gently holding in our hearts those who cannot, and could not from the beginning.” -Marta I. Valentin
Express gratitude today for something or someone that feeds you, for some bit of abundance in your life.
Summer
All power and energy and life force on Earth comes from the Sun. The summer solstice is the peak of that life-giving force. Summer brings abundance, harvest, and heat.
Live vibrantly today as if you were radiating the power of the Sun.
Solstice
“The Solstices teach us
to remember the dark,
to remember the light,
to remember time.
The seasons. And love
as we circle the sun.”
-David Breeden
As summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere, pause for a moment today and remember love.
Juneteenth
Juneteenth celebrates the day–some two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation–when the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free.
On this Juneteenth, spend some time thinking about those who are still not free. How can you participate in their liberation?