For restoration and reflection
Seekers Church invites all of any faith or no faith belief who yearn for peace and justice to please join us for an hour of quiet reflection and restoration.
We will come together to renew and sustain each other, preparing to do our work in the world with courage and compassion.
Each 3rdThursday of the Month, 6:30-7:30pm
Please use the street level door, next to the driveway to enter and bring a water bottle if you like
The Takoma Metro Station is very close.
If you drive there is very limited parking behind the church.
We recommend parking on the street or in Metro lot.
For more information: sandra@seekerschurch.org
Meditation Guidance
Welcome to this time of quiet reflection.
Our intention is to come away for a time: setting aside both our pressing concerns, and the distracting static around us, to renew and restore ourselves and each other.
There is no one right way of sitting quietly in the circle. You may already be acquainted with a number of ways that support you in times of quiet. And a way that supports us sometimes may not be what we need at a different time.
Here we have included some approaches that have been found helpful:
*Focusing one’s awareness on one’s breathing is often a good beginning. There’s no need to change one’s breathing: just be aware. Notice, without judgment, when your attention has moved elsewhere: simply return non-judgmentally to your breathing.
*Repeating to oneself a passage from a sacred writing or poem that has personal significance, and reflecting on the passage’s meaning.
*Guiding one’s attention with repetitions of chants, psalms, or prayers that have already been learned.
*Creating space to remember all that is worthy of our praise and gratitude. Remember and name those that have touched us in specific ways.
*Bringing one’s compassionate attention to our personal needs and the needs of others. It can help to first hold our own needs with care, and then deliberately enlarge the circle of caring attention to those close to us, and then broader it further to persons and situations we’ve become aware are in need of compassion.
* Praying without words, like the beginning breathing exercise, seeks to create a calm, open, and possibly expectant inner space in which, without striving, a presence beyond our habitual selves can be sensed and greeted.
As the time comes for the group to transition from the quiet, it’s good to make this shift slowly and mindfully, and to be aware of the needs of others who are also emerging from their own inner quiet.