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Writer's pictureTony Lorenzen

September's THEME: Invitation

The spiritual theme for this month is "invitation." Here are some resources to help you reflect on the idea and process of invitation.

INVITING Question to Ponder 

  • What is the most beautiful invitation you ever received?

  • What is your way of being in the world inviting people to do or become?

  • What’s an invitation you’re not accepting because of fear?

  • If you could only invite one new thing into your life in the coming year, what would it be?


INVITING Quotes

  • “Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.” - Adrienne Rich

  • “I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.” - Scott Adams

  • “True hospitality is when someone leaves your home feeling better about themselves, not better about you.” - Shauna Niequist  

  • “A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal [themselves] to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.” - David Whyte


Books about INVITATION

  • Trusting Change: Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation by Karen Hering

  • New Beginnings; An Invitation to Know Yourself and Change Your Destiny by Yuan Tze

  • Radical Welcome: Embracing God, the Other, and the Spirit of Transformation by Stephanie Spellers

  • Faithful Practices: Everyday Ways to Feed Your Spirit by Erik Walker Wikstrom


Movies and Television about INVITATION

  • “Inside Out2” - On inviting in all of our emotions

  • “The Bear” On the invitation to community and beginning again

  • “Somebody, Somewhere” On the invitation to self-reinvention

  • “Once” On the invitation to connect and heal


INVITING Items on the Internet


  • On the Life-Giving Questions that Change Invites Us to Ask


INVITING Music

  • Click here for the Spotify playlist on The Invitation of a New Day

  • Click here for the YouTube playlist on The Invitation of a New Day


  • Click here for the Spotify playlist on The Invitation to Live Love

  • Click here for the YouTube playlist on The Invitation to Live Love

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