welcome, well come to this moment of eternity under the waning moon almost new where we will conclude going a little deeper into Peace Pilgrim’s 4 Relinquishments with tonight’s focus on her fourth and last surrender or softening which seems a lovely opening for this new moon of embodiment…

“Now the last: the relinquishment of all negative feelings. I want to mention just one negative feeling which the nicest people still experience, and that negative feeling is worry. Worry is not concern which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation. Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Let me mention just one technique. Seldom do you worry about the present moment; it’s usually all right. If you worry, you agonize over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or you’re apprehensive over the future which hasn’t even come yet. We tend to skim right over the present time. Since this is the only moment that one can live, if you don’t live it you never really get around to living at all. If you do live this present moment, you tend not to worry. For me, every moment is a new opportunity to be of service.”

so, let’s get comfortable and take a few deep cleansing breaths relaxing more with each breath, settling down and syncing into the rhythm of the waves of breath and then listening for and to feelings… ah, here comes peace, welcome peace and now here comes anger and we welcome it as well greeting it as we aspire to greet any guest at the guesthouse knowing they will not be staying a long and they do have a gift for us when we have the eyes of unconditional love to see… this feeling is not who i truly am but a cloud obscuring the always shining sun…

simply interbeing in this moment with whatever is re-membering we are children of the sun , the sol that never rises or sets, that always shines letting us know our birthright is to be peaceful and filled with lovingkindness serving in joy…

let’s seal this sacred space with the reciting of the poem for the seventeenth day of the forty days of cultivating peace = people emerging and cultivating equanimity and sowing the seeds of intention for the new moon….

“When the earth is in distress, it attunes itself with love and sends out a prayer.

The True One hears it, and with total ease is pleased to give Its strength and steadiness.

It sends a command to the Power of Rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.

The wealth of grain and corn grows thick.

A person cannot describe its value.

Oh Naanak, appreciate the Divine Identity.

You, Divine One, cause the life-giving food to be given to all the creatures.

Eating this, peace grows, and the cycle of pain comes no more.”