Each week, a new topic is pulled randomly from the vessel of ideas on the altar in the center of the circle. Anyone can put any thought into the vessel, written on a slip of paper. And the end of each session, the topic for next week is discovered by the fingers reaching blindly into the jar. Last Sunday the discovery was:

 

Overcoming Fear with Love

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   We are invited to share stories from our lives in which Fear arose and we experienced dissolving that fear with the power of Love.  Our own stories or stories we know about. Perhaps stories we invent on the spot! In the Circle!  

   Fear comes in all shapes and sizes, colors and textures. Distrust, startling surprise, fearsome taste, sounds, smells, touch, sensation...

   And of course STORIES. Stories living in the mind, hidden, waiting to be awoken in a triggering moment. Meanings planted in the mind that I don't know where it came from, but suddenly it springs out in front of me like an authority.  It might take me a second to realize that it is not a Truth, or it might take minutes, days, years to realize that the story was not true at all, and in action gave birth to other hurtful stories. 

   But when that feeling pops up, if I remember to invite LOVE in to transform the moment, everything starts to change like a magic wand. 

   But what does that look like? Maybe I see something ugly and recoil, the stories flapping around, and the ugly recoils back, stories of it's own.  But then I recognize that it is asking for help/connection (love), and when the presence is perceived with my heart, the stories flowing between us change and melt to gently become something I recognize as MYSELF. 

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I feel grateful to be together with you in this place; Gracious, gracias, gratitude.
This attitude of GRATITUDE is an appearance of Love.

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The Circle Is Open!

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