"Waging Peace" #23

Our final day of the Dive, featuring Rumi and Westminster Choir

Welcome to the last day of this Deep Dive!

Join me and a SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST
tomorrow evening (2/1) for a closing Zoom!!

6:00-7:00PM Central (7:00 ET, 5:00 MT, 4:00 PT)

Let’s close “Waging Peace” with a time of voluntary sharing. (It’s fine just to listen!) Come and reflect with other Rafters on this Deep Dive.

Registration is required for this celebration.

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Set your intention

Take a moment to name the primary intention you have for this month-long deep dive and/or this particular session. Take a quiet moment to center yourself in that intention.

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Receive the music

Try to refrain from judging the music as “good” or “bad” or forming an “I like it” or “I don’t like it” opinion. For a few minutes, cultivate curiosity and openness. If resistance arises in you, be curious about that too.

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Read the poem

I invite you to read this poem twice—aloud, at least once. You may also listen to my reading of the poem, perhaps with your eyes closed.

UNTITLED ["FLOWERS OPEN EVERY NIGHT"]
Rumi
Translated from the Persian by Coleman Barks

Flowers open every night
across the sky as the peace

of keeping a vigil
kindles the emptiness.


(from The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems)

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Contemplate/Create

Use any of these questions however you wish—e.g., as openings for meditation or prayer, as prompts for journaling or poetry-writing, as sparks for drawing or painting, as catalysts for change-making . . . You may also ignore my questions altogether to go off in other directions!

• For what or whom do you keep vigil as you wage peace?

• Write four heartfelt lines of prose or poetry to express the constancy of your commitment as one who loves and wages peace.

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Will I see you at our closing gathering tomorrow night?