Fall is here.  School is underway. And now our own school (RE) at Unity has begun.  In teacher training this fall KP challenged us to bring our passions to our practice of teaching; to practice meeting the passions of our children, to risk being undone.  A beautiful and sober invitation […]

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After traveling and Easter and spring break, I was back in my classroom this week.  Our story was the “Life Cycle of the Human Being”.  We looked at pictures of people in different stages of life and thought about how we weren’t two any more.  All of us are much […]

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Today I got the pleasure and the honor of exploring Christian traditions of contemplation and meditation with a lovely group of women.  One of the things we did was an active imagination contemplation on a passage from a gospel.  I used Mark 6:53-56 which is a short passage whose language […]

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Today I joined a group of women to walk an indoor labyrinth in silence.  I love community labyrinth walks. Not only do you experience the twists of the path itself and it’s movement towards and away from the center, but you also meet fellow travelers, move with them, walk away […]

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My favorite roll in my Spirit Play class is that of the door teacher.  It’s hard to explain what to do in this role.  The teacher takes on a particular presence of hospitality and loving witness.  It might not look like the door teacher is doing much during class.  They […]

Today I had the lovely opportunity to meet a new person who does incredible artistic work.  She obviously pours her soul- her whole self- into her work and the work pours itself back into her, a mutually sustaining practice. I find that the more I engage my own soul purpose, […]

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Our story on Sunday was preparing the children for our merging of the waters ritual in the fall.  We imagined where we might collect water this summer and we each poured our water into the gathering bowl saying in response, “This is the water of our community”.  The children loved […]

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The Storyteller role in our classroom seems clear cut.  There is a book with the ritual we use to open our class.  The book contains the story.  The Storyteller leads the class through the ritual and the story and dismisses children to their work. But this role done well is […]

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These past weeks have been a whirlwind.  Even contemplative minded folks can get overwhelmed by the many demands of life and forget to pause, reflect and simply be.  This has been my last few weeks in Spirit Play.  There is so much to do.  I have found that the change […]

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This has been an intense season of change in my life.  Last spring I started studying with a meditation teacher after a synchronistic meeting.  I had already been engaged in a meditation practice- survival meditation as I thought of it.  I did not start meditating to enhance my life, or […]

 

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That ~Hafiz Tonight I find myself in a still place.  I am pondering how to love.  I am pondering what it looks […]

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That ~Hafiz Tonight I find myself in a still place.  I am pondering how to love.  I am pondering what it looks […]

This week in Spirit Play we told the story of Passover, which turned out to be about three stories in one.  Before the story of celebrating Passover, we started with the story of Exodus.  The story was highly condensed, giving mention to Joseph and then explaining that the Hebrew people […]

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Last week in our Spirit Play class things started a little haphazardly.  I was running late for one and my teacher friends were running even later than me.  There was a little chaos as we gathered in the hallway together and then moved into the classroom in a big bunch […]

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I wasn’t looking forward to Spirit Play this week.  I thought about what I might say.  I thought about what I might not say.  I fretted just a little.  And then I took a deep breath…and the day began.  The day began slowly with a sp

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I am one who is seeking and finding refuge, opening a soft place in my heart opening up like my newborn in warm water gently blossoming to let in the sun and the bees an invitation into beautiful sanctuary. I am one who is […]

This has felt like a long week.  I am tired.  I feel as though I could look back and sigh and simply walk to my bed and sleep.  I feel as if I’m half asleep already.  So I look back instead and re-focus my weary eyes on the week.  I […]

I went to my first Bat Mitzvah last week and was moved by the service and the many messages within the readings and Torah.  The part that I keep talking about, though, was a midrash that the Rabbi shared.  Midrash for those unfamiliar with it are stories written as a […]

As a part of my daily practice, I have been sitting with verses from the Christian tradition in the morning after meditation.  This morning I was sitting with a few verses from a Psalm and one verse from the Signs Gospel. Psalm 77:17-21  The waters saw You, O God, the […]

This week in my Spirit Play class, one of my friends wanted to show me the block structure he made.  As with all our classroom materials, they are intended to be used one way, in this case to build churches, and they are actually used in a multiplicity of ways. […]

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