Moment of Oneness, March 18, 2026 - Prepared by Deb Trees

In the name of Peace and Love and Grace.

God, come to my assistance. Holy One, make haste to help me.

Good evening dear friends. As we come together here in our Moment of Oneness tonight, we bring our day, our energy, our dreams, our needs, our sense of belonging, our love of each other, and our embracing of ourselves. We gift ourselves with this time. We ask for our awareness to be expanded as we sit in our sacred spaces, alone and together all at the same time. Let us listen with ears of awareness and welcome. 

Reading: Our reading is from Valerie Kaur, See No Stranger, A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. 

“We can learn to mother ourselves!” Audre Lorde once declared. So I decided to practice listening to the Wise Woman in me. I got a simple blank journal, carried it with me, and wrote in it every day, sometimes three times a day, and simply let her speak. 

It always began the same way: “Wise Woman here. Wise Woman says…” She always began by telling me the state of my body. “Oh, my love, you are tired today. It’s okay, I got you.” Then she told me what to do next—to rest or work. “Go do this piece of the work and come back and report to me in three hours.” 

She never berated me if I failed. She simply made a new plan and sent me off again. Listening to her voice, literally every few hours, is how I began to practice loving myself. 

Here’s what I discovered about Wise Woman: Her voice is quiet. There is so much noise in my mind—the Little Critic but also the cacophony of noises from the outside world, an endless stream of breaking news and social media and other people’s thoughts. 

I have to get really quiet in order to hear her. How do I know when I am hearing her voice? She is tender and truthful. She is not afraid of anything or anyone. She does not give me all the answers, but she does know what I need to do in this moment—to wonder, grieve, fight, rage, listen, reimagine, breathe, or push. 

She helps me show up to the labor as my best self. I believe that deep wisdom resides within each of us. Some call this voice by different sacred names—Spirit, God, Jesus, Allah, Om, Buddha-nature, Waheguru. 

Others think of this voice as the intuition one hears when in a calm state of mind. My friend Jeremy calls the voice his Inner Professor, his teacher. My teammate Melissa calls hers Best Friend. Whatever name we choose, listening to our deepest wisdom requires disciplined practice. 

The loudest voices in the world right now are ones running on the energy of fear, criticism, and cruelty. The voices we spend the most time listening to, in the world and inside our own minds, shape the way we see, how we feel, and what we do. 

When I spend time listening to people who are speaking from their deepest wisdom, I can feel understanding, inspiration, and energy nourish the root of my own wisdom.

These are the words from Valerie Kaur, and we affirm them with a grateful and quiet sigh of: Amen.

Reflection Time

Let us take a moment to contemplate how do WE bring the “Wise Woman” into our individual lives?

Quiet

Please bring forward and share any intentions you may have…

In the name of the Holy One, our Creator and Field of Peace, we ask for these intentions with love and hope. Amen.

Let us pray the prayer of Jesus.

O Holy One who is within, around and among us.

We celebrate your many names.

Your wisdom come, Your will be done. Unfolding from the depths within us.

Each day, you give us all we need. You remind us of our limits, and we let go. You support us in our power, and we act with courage.

For you are the dwelling place within us. The empowerment around us, and the celebration among us, Now and forever, Amen.

(Adapted from Miriam Therese Winter.)

Closing Prayer

Dear friends, May the Wise Woman or Wise One, bring us peace, counsel and love. May each of us have a blessed evening and a holy and peaceful sleep. Amen.