Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed

Published: Fri, 04/17/15

Webinar: Focusing Practice as a Way to Inner Wisdom and Wholeness

April 23, 2015: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Presented by Nick Morale
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Focusing can help us in the following ways:

* Develop a more spacious interiority

* Feel more at home in our bodies

* Transform emotional conflict into nourishing, life-forwarding states of being.

* Reduce emotional reactivity

* Increase discernment with a less judgmental attitude

* Increase insight about the interaction between thinking and emotion

* Build empathy for ourselves and other people as interior spaciousness increases

* Increase joy for our mere existence

* Develop creativity further by learning how to “think at the edge”

In this webinar we will:

* Discuss one or more of the distinctions between mindfulness practice and Focusing

* Begin to explore what the “felt sense” is, and isn’t

* Consider the difference between inner bodily knowing and conceptual knowing

* Discover the power of presence language for easing stress

* Describe Eugene Gendlin’s discovery of Focusing and his student Ann Weiser Cornell’s deepening of this work

* Discuss how Focusing can help inner longing unfold into a more wakeful heart

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Book of the Week

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride. Riverbed Books, 1996.

A book that transcends race and touches the spirit is given to us by one of the characters, one of twelve children of a black father and a Jewish mother. James McBride interweaves the chapters that give the story of his spunky white mother with his own experiences of being one of the sons of this woman who proudly sent all her children on to the universities to become degreed professionals. She gamed her own degree in social work at sixty-five. Race, family, history, and religion are woven together beautifully in a “rags to riches” story one will not forget.

James McBride is one of twelve siblings who grew up in the housing projects ofRed Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. McBride found her an object of constant embarrassment as she steered her children through all the free cultural events she could find. As an adult he finally discovered she was born in Poland and was the daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi in rural Virginia. She ran away to Harlem, married a black man, and founded an all-black Baptist church in her living room.

This book gives a powerful portrait of McBride’s growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother.

- Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review.

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Saint of the Week

St. George (d. 303) April 23

If Mary Magdalene was the victim of misunderstanding, George is the object of a vast amount of imagination. There is every reason to believe that he was a real martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. The Church adheres to his memory, but not to the legends surrounding his life. That he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ is what the Church believes. And it is enough.

The story of George's slaying the dragon, rescuing the king's daughter and converting Libya is a 12th-century Italian fable. George was a favorite patron saint of crusaders, as well as of Eastern soldiers in earlier times. He is a patron saint of England, Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Catalonia, Genoa and Venice.

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Weekend Readings

Saturday
ACTS 6:1-7

PS 33:1-5, 18-19

JN 6:16-21

Sunday

ACTS 3:13-15, 17-19 PS 4:2, 4, 7-9

1 JN 2:1-5

LK 24:35-48

Lectionary

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The LOL blacklist of Christian spiritual writers.
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The "Buddhification" of Christian contemplative spirituality.

- Christian Spirituality Issues forum.

Too late?

- Kundalini and Spiritual Emergencies forum.

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Theology Note

Transcendental idealism

Transcendental Idealism is a philosophical teaching developed by Immanuel Kant that the self gains knowledge based through our senses (hearing, sight, sound, etc.,) that must be in concert with universal concepts. Another explanation is that we are not able to truly know what something is because what is must be interpreted through our senses. Appearances are representations and not the actual things themselves.

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Joke of the Week

Change your course

Through the pitch-black night, the captain sees a light dead ahead on a collision course with his ship. He sends a signal: “Change your course 10 degree east.”

The light signals back: “Change yours, 10 degrees west.”

Angry, the captain sends: “I’m a navy captain! Change your course, sir!”

“I’m a seaman, second class,” comes the reply. “Change your course, sir.”

Now the captain is furious. “I’m a battleship! I’m not changing course!”

There is one last reply. “I’m a lighthouse. Your call.”

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