Quiet Your Busy Hearts
Advent Forest Bathing
Guided by Maria Gonzalez on Janet Hale's Beautiful Acreage
December 7th from 9:30am to 12:30pm
and/ or
December 21st from 2:00 to 5:00pm
December 7th will not include lunch.
Please plan to remain after Forest Bathing on December 21st for a simple soup supper and bonfire as we greet the setting sun on the shortest day of the year.
Details of Janet's address and what to bring will be sent to participants in the week prior to each gathering.
Deep Listening
by Mary-Elizabeth Cotton
Let us listen…
Just for a while
Let us silence our minds
And open our hearts.
Just for a while
Let us listen from within.
Listen…
Not to gain knowledge,
Not to formulate questions,
Rather to chance upon
Sacred bonds and
Profound wisdom.
Just for a while
Let us not seek information
Or answers.
Let us not rouse the intellect
But embrace the spirit.
If thoughts cloud the brain
May we let them pass.
If replies tingle on the tongue.
Let us breathe them away silently.
Return to them later
But here…
Here in this precious time of sharing
Let us listen…
Let the words wash over us
And seep into a still, quiet pool.
Let us listen.