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Stay Still, Listen
Opening Prayer – Shhh, Be still. Shhh very still. Don’t try, just be. What do you feel in your body? Ahhh tension… let it go. Relax your neck and shoulders, let them go. Breath deep long breaths and let them go. Be still, listen.
Opening Song: Be Still and Listen by Shawna Carol
https://youtu.be/FC9JX2l-Enk?si=GGFz6NBeVebC5LvR
First Reading - Lost by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
Second Reading – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Siddhartha listened. He was now listening intently,
completely absorbed, quite empty, taking in everything.
He felt that he had now completely learned the art of listening.
He had often heard all this before, all the numerous voices in the river,
but today they sounded different. He could
no longer distinguish the different voices…
They all belonged to each other: the lament of those that yearn,
the laughter of the wise, the cry of indignation and the groan
of the dying.
Affirmations and Intentions:
May we hone the skill of patience to be still and listen.
May we speak with the wisdom of the One who breathes in us.
May we hear revelations that evoke tears in our hearts.
May we be inspired by seeing how the Divine moves in another and all things.
May we wait patiently while deep healing takes place.
May we experience gratefulness when we awaken.
Silence to add your own intentions.
Closing Prayer: Listener of our Deepest Self, the ear of your heart Is forever to us. We call and you respond. We turn and you embrace. We look and you gaze. We search and you lead. We lose and you find. We wander and you return us home. Grant us the grace to be a reflection of your presence.
Closing Song – Awake my Soul – Mumford & Sons (ft. Jon Baptiste)
https://youtu.be/PjM6Jbd__Qc?si=wkdcJk6FVNsiMQtI
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