Sunday Mornings in the Art Gallery before Worship

You’re invited to stretch your mind and your soul, to print peace and serenity on this moment of overwhelming grief and trauma.

Beginning January 18, our church will hold 20 minutes of guided walking meditations before worship.

Walking has long been a contemplative practice in both the Christian and Buddhist traditions. In this time when many of us feel powerless and overwhelmed, movement of our bodies can lead to a movement in what we think, feel, and how we’re called to act.

As we stretch our legs, we stretch our minds and our souls. St Augustine, himself a great walker, remarked, “Solvitur ambulando;” it is solved by walking.
–Walking in This World, Julia Cameron

We walk all the time, but usually it is more like running. When we walk like that, we print anxiety and sorrow on the Earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earch.
–Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hahn