November 2010 – A Deeper Shade of Grace

This month, we examine how the practice of gratitude can transform our daily lives.

November 7 – "The Tao of Change" with Rev. Deborah Gay

The changing of the season guides us to turn our attention towards our personal preparation for the internal period of the winter ahead. It is a time of harvesting the insights of summer. By embracing the fullness of who we are, we come into deeper self understanding and greater self acceptance.

November 14 – “Creating a Wave of Gratitude” and Singing Bowls

Can we change our lives or the world just by being grateful? Absolutely! Our bodies are mainly composed of water. Water is a fabulous conductor of many things, including energy. If we build a wave of energy within ourselves of powerful gratitude – that energy will affect our ongoing outlook on life and begin to affect those around us.

Water also holds energy, as those who use it for alternative energy collection and dispersion well know. So let us chose to generate a wave of energetic love and gratitude until it joins with others in a tidal wave – a powerful force for good.

This Sunday we welcome Karl Black and Dave Ehrmantrout back to play the Tibetan Singing Bowls for us again. How perfect for us to use the sound waves of the bowls to generate a wake of gratitude.

November 21 – “The Grammar of Gratitude”

Learning to speak the language of love and appreciation in our lives creates a resonating field of positive energy. We become happiness and abundance magnets.

Moreover, by consciously using the power of gratitude to transform our lives everyone around us is uplifted. We will explore how gratitude works from a scientific perspective and then how the power of Universal Law, called the Law of Attraction, draws to us even more for which to be grateful!

November 28 – “The Power of Gratitude: A Grace-Filled Life”

Aside from the positive benefits to our health from a practice of gratitude, we also are able to actually receive the good in our lives. Each of us already experiences unsung or un-praised wealth, love, joy, peace and aliveness. To be fully present and alive to all the good in our lives is to become receptive to it. "Greater aliveness is the reward for generating a life filled with gratitude. We simply cannot receive all the good in our lives if we take it for granted. As Thornton Wilder once observed "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

On this Thanksgiving weekend we complete a month of gratitude practice with a celebratory potluck.