i love beginning each moon/month with this beautiful blessing… awakening august is no exception as we all step onto new ground, on a path that has been quietly forming in the background just waiting for us to awaken…

and, so many of our relations are doing just that and hearing the cries of the world, feeling the suffering and responding with compassion, letting the pain strengthen our realization of belonging to each other and the reality of interdependence – we must stand together in love…

as we step onto new ground, let’s step up our practice of unconditional opening to all that arises… taking in the suffering, transmuting it into compassion and sending it out as lovingkindness and peace…

recognizing the great benefit of loving all our relations,

may we bring all beings to joy and peace through the strength of devotion…

breathing in the heaviness of agitation or anger or sorrow or rage,

we breathe out the lightness of well-being and peace…