WATERmeditations

"Many Masks" meditation with Mary E. Hunt on March 8, 2021

March 2021 WATERmeditation with Mary E. Hunt

"Accepting Diminishment"

Diminishment
By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955
“When the signs of aging begin to mark my body, and still more when they reach my mind; when the ill that is to diminish me or carry me off strikes from without or is born within me; when the painful moment comes in which I am suddenly awake to the fact that I am old or growing old; and above all, at that last moment when I feel I am losing myself and am absolutely passive in the hands of those great unknown forces that have formed me: in all those dark moments, O God grant that I may understand that it is you who are painfully parting the fibers of my being in order to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and bear me away within yourself.
Teach me to treat my death as an act of communion.”

“Abide With Me” hymn (first three verses), sung by King’s College Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deJDkU6qiGE&ab_channel=KatePrice

April 2021 WATERmeditation with Rosemary Ganley

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
The WATERmeditation format is as follows: Mary E. Hunt's introduction, Virginia’s brief remarks, then a period of 22 minutes of silence, started with a livestream of osprey, and then discussion which is cut from this recording. The livestream can be found here: https://www.ctaudubon.org/osprey-nation-osprey-cam/

May 2021 WATERmeditation with Virginia Day

"Tending to the Garden"
Feel free to pause the audio for a full 22 minutes of silence and meditation. 
Communal reflections have been removed from the recording.

June 2021 WATERmeditation with Anali North Martin

"Integration" 
Using Denise Levertov's poem "Talking to Grief"

July 2021 WATERmeditation with Kye Flannery

December 2021 WATERmeditation with Ann Marie Szpakowska

January 2022 WATERmeditation with Carrie Roach

February 2022 WATERmeditation with Brad Lutz

March 2020 WATER Meditation with Laura Carr-Pries

May 2020 WATERmeditation - Swimming with Mary E. Hunt

January 2020 WATERmeditation with Virginia Day

February 2020 WATERmeditation with Mary E. Hunt

June 2020 WATERmeditation- Hildegard of Bingen Viriditas

July 2020 WATERmeditation: Sorrow and Hope

"Compassion: Moral Imagination at Work" with Mary E. Hunt

WATER Staff's Album

September 2020 WATERmeditation with Mary E. Hunt

Track artwork: Cover of OLD MONK by Mary Lou Kownacki, published by Benetvision (April 15, 2020)
Includes a reading of "Poem 26" and its following reflection, both by Kownacki

October 2020 WATERmeditation with Cheryl Nichols

Cynthia Tootle read a womanized version of Psalm 139, reflecting on the "The All-Knowing and Ever-Present Goddess."

November 2020 WATERmeditation with Cynthia Tootle

A meditation and reflection centered around Mary Oliver's poem "The Sun"

December 2020 WATERmeditation with Anali North Martin

A meditation on Maya Angelou's reading of her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning"

January 2021 WATERmeditation with Mary Galeone

Centered around "A Blessing of Angels" by John O'Donohue:

May the Angels in their beauty bless you.
May they turn toward you streams of blessing.
May the Angel of Awakening stir your heart
To come alive to the eternal within you,
To all the invitations that quietly surround you.
May the Angel of Healing turn your wounds
Into sources of refreshment.

May the Angel of the Imagination enable you 
To stand on the true thresholds,
At ease with your ambivalence
And drawn in new direction
Through the glow of your contradictions.

May the Angel of Compassion open your eyes
To the unseen suffering around you.
May the Angel of Wildness disturb the places
Where your life is domesticated and safe.

May the Angel of Eros introduce you
To the beauty of your senses
To celebrate your inheritance
As a temple of the holy spirit.

May the Angel of Justice disturb you
To take the side of the poor and the wronged.
May the Angel of Encouragement confirm you
In worth and self-respect,
That you may live with the dignity
That presides in your soul.

May the Angel of Death arrive only
When your life is complete
And you have brought every given gift
To the threshold where its infinity can shine.

May all the Angels be your sheltering
And joyful guardians.

February 2021 WATERmeditation with Cheryl Nichols

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