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Opening Peace Chant : Singing Bowl
Divine
and loving energy, bring me peace within my body, mind and soul/ Breath in and
out long slow breaths.
Divine
and loving energy, bring peace to those near me tonight and those not so near
in my family, friends and neighbors/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Divine
and loving energy, bring peace to this country and those beings in countries we
do not call home/ Breath in and out long slow breaths.
Divine
and loving energy, bring peace to all creatures on this planet earth/ Breath in
and out long slow breaths.
Reading by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In a
traditional Anishinaabe economy, the land is the source of all goods and
services, which are distributed in a kind of gift exchange: one life is given
in support of another. The focus is on supporting the good of the people, not
only an individual. Receiving a gift from the land is coupled to attached
responsibilities of sharing, respect, reciprocity, and gratitude – of which you
will be reminded.
To name the
world as gift is to feel your membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes
you happy – and it makes you accountable. Conceiving of something as a gift
changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical
makeup of the “thing” has not changed.
Some
powerful feminist thinkers call us to remember that gift giving is among the
most primal of human relationships. Each of us begins our life as the recipient
in what Genevieve Vaughan has called a “maternal gift economy”, the flow of
“goods and services from mother to newborn. When the mother nurses her child,
the boundary of the individual self becomes permeable and the common good is
the only one that matters. The maternal gift economy is a biological
imperative. There is no meritocracy or earning of sustenance. Mothers do not
sell their milk to their babies, it is pure gift, so that life can continue.
The currency of this economy is the flow of gratitude, the flow of love,
literally in support of life.
Margaret
Atwood writes, “Every time a gift is given it is enlivened and regenerated
through the new spiritual life it engenders both in the given and in the
recipient”
Affirmations and Intentions: From the Honorable Harvest
May we know the ways of the ones who take
care of us so that we can take care of them. Let it be so.
May we introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life. Let it be so.
May we share. Let it be so.
May we give thanks for what we have been
given. Let it be so.
May we give a gift in reciprocity for
what we have taken. Let it be so.
May we sustain the ones who sustains us,
and the Earth will last forever. Let it be so.
Silence to add your
own intentions.
Closing Prayer: Deuteronomy 33: 13-16
Blessed
by God be the land, with the precious gifts of heaven, with the dew, and the Deep
that lies beneath, with the precious fruits brought forth by the sun and the
riches brought forth by the moon, with the greatness of the ancient mountains,
with the abundance of the everlasting hills, and with all the treasures of the
earth in its perfection.
Closing Song – This is your song by Elton John, sung by Lady Gaga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAuIY_eaL5U
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