exploring community within [practice]

DIRECTED SILENCE: exploring community within (inspired by a tilden edwards practice)

"Close your eyes and let your imagination take your through your body with a focus on its spacious and miraculous quality. Emphasizing the spaciousness can include a sense of openness of forms."  From within to skin, head to toe, shoulders to fingers explore the boundaries of your body.

Now imagine the boundaried ends of your body to no longer be hard lines but shadings.

After several minutes, now imagine the shadings of your boundaries extending to the ones around you.  Imagine the ones around you to extend to the streets, to those you'll encounter this week, both familiar and stranger, both those that love you and those who are enemies.

After a few more minutes, imagine the shadings of humanity to be extended to God--you and I are not God, but we are connected to the Creator and Sustainer of all life.

As we end, offer a prayer of gratitude for "the wonder of this interwoven community within and beyond."