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
Bill Murray on Life’s Invitation to a New Day - https://www.facebook.com/reel/990746565599609
Inviting Fear to Travel with You by Elizabeth Gilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgKhHeiah80
On inviting in our feelings and hearing their invitations
YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oFD8gbic6A&t=409s
On the Life-Giving Questions that Change Invites Us to Ask
INVITING Music
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