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The Power of Three
In this past Sunday’s sermon, I shared just a bit about my journey in hopes that it can encourage each of you to reflect on your own spiritual journey with the power of three:
Three people that have shaped your life.
Three key experiences on your spiritual journey.
Three practices that feed your spirit.
This invitation includes a nudging to write down some of your own stories. The value in writing, even for yourself, is well documented as therapeutic, insightful, and potentially transformative. But to get to the transformative part, you actually have to participate in reflecting and writing.
Embedded in these reflections is the prompt to recognize that we are already and always creating a legacy with the way we live. Whether we see this as ripples on a lake, or planting seeds with our deeds, we make an impact just by living and being. Legacy is really about how we love. It’s about our way of being, on our own individual spiritual journey, yes, and also on our journey together as beloved community. The way we treat one another, the way we show we care, and the way we live our values creates a legacy that touches others, right now in real time, and also ripples out into the future.
If we wish to do this legacy-living consciously, then we need to bring the light of awareness to the table. The legacy of who we are and what we are creating, is a composite of several influences.
- There is our heritage, where we come from and what we have inherited from others.
- There is community, who we are together collectively and what we are co-creating.
- Then, there is the ongoing meaning-making we engage in as we move through the different seasons of life.
The spiritual journey is both an individual path, and a collective one. We are not alone, we need each other, maybe more than we realize. Legacy is not created in isolation, but in relationship.
Author and educator bell hooks writes:
Community is the essence of human connection.
Community is where we learn to respect and appreciate one another’s differences.
Community is the space where we learn to love ourselves and each other.
Please take time for reflection on what you want to create in your life and how you would like to share the gift of you in community. When we take time to reflect on those who have shaped who we are, when we consciously acknowledge what we have been given or inherited, then we can also recognize how we become a living legacy of that gifting.
Does the legacy we create reflect the values and intentions we hold about how we wish to make a difference?
Does our legacy embody how we wish to be in relationship with and care for one another?
What is asked of each of us to live into the mission of ERUUF to transform lives?
My hope is that this community can serve as a place of connection and a sacred space where spirits our nourished and love finds action. Stories of our journey, individual and communal, can help us connect the past with the present, and guide where we are going. When we gather and reflect collectively on the living story of ERUUF, we are co-creating the legacy we wish to share in the world. You, me, each of us, all of us. Together. Living as legacy.
In this sacred belonging, we can begin to co-create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Peace,
Daniel
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