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Welcome: Since discovering The Upper Room and currently through my journey to Chaplaincy, much of my study and prayers lead me to the journey from head to heart…from listening and reading, to the challenge of integration. A challenge that seems near impossible – til it’s not.
Tonight’s theme is a sharing of that journey, to which I hope you can relate. It describes the continuous discovery of authentic self and the richness and challenge of birthing wisdoms - from head to the heart.
Welcome: Opening/Centering Song:
I surrender by Karen Drucker https://youtu.be/BPXoKvBReZ8
Opening Meditations from “The Star in My Heart” by Joyce Rupp
The quiet spaces in my life are necessary if there is to be a movement from the head to the heart, for it is in the heart that wisdoms are born. I can know and experience many things but they remain only knowledge until I allow them to sink into the depths of my heart, there to toss and to turn, to weep and to wail, to leap and to dance. Sophia helps me to take facts, data, events, experiences, down into my spiritual womb. There they sit in me, gestate and are transformed into truths which are eventually brought up into the light of my consciousness. These discovered truths give my life a right ordering, where the best of who I am can be realized.
My Journey to Wisdom by Joyce Rupp
Once upon a time
a child of happiness danced upon the land,
knew friendship with the earth
and celebrated life
with her love of solitude and simple things.
She grew into a young woman,
whose vision of self was clouded,
clothed with the complexities of insecurity
and the necessity of leaving the hallowed womb
of the quiet earth.
She walked into cities of strangers,
straining her inner eye to catch
the slightest hint of the beauty
that had energized her younger days
when she played upon the earth.
Days stretched into months
and then years went by.
She slowly changed by going deeper,
deeper, into her Center.
Never understanding why the desire
to go deeper was there
but always knowing there was no other choice
than to follow at all costs.
Darkness often loomed up large
against her searching journey.
Risk and Truth became her companions.
She met Compassion
and then Wisdom came to greet her.
So close, at times, were these companions
that she wept for their intensity
and her unworthiness.
Still, they walked with her,
and everywhere she went,
her companions reached out
and blessed the people of her life.
She could only kneel in gratitude,
offering her heart of praise
to the Divine Companion
who had faithfully kept the kindling of love
burning in her heart.
Petition Prayer for all:
Thank you for this new beginning.
Be with us in this time of change.
Bless us with opportunity
and the will to seize it.
Grant us energy and strength,
wisdom and discernment.
Thank you for the gifts
You give us to succeed in joy!
We come to You, Holy One
Open and ready
to make the most of
the life You give me.
Closing Song:
Impossible til its not by Carrie Newcomer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAl9xT4ZRbU
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