<div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing this Martha!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:52 AM Martha McGovern via fuusmchat <<a href="mailto:fuusmchat@fuusm.org">fuusmchat@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">I recommend The Stations of the Cross
video that is part of this issue.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">Martha</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="newsletter@onbeing.org" href="mailto:newsletter@onbeing.org" target="_blank">The On Being Project</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 11, 2020 6:53 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="marthamcg@suddenlink.net" href="mailto:marthamcg@suddenlink.net" target="_blank">Martha McGovern</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Gratefulness, in three steps</div></div></div>
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<p style="text-align:right"><em>Art by <a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=U8BywbVW_-LBEAaQ2FKpeCoMjfd8ECXmGGARYv5eygI&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=2" target="_blank">Sophia
Khan</a></em></p>
<p><em>"This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before."
— Maya Angelou</em></p>
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<p>Brother David Steindl-Rast was born in Austria and spent his
teenage years under Nazi occupation. Now 93 years old, the
Benedictine monk is the founder of <span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=5eYJiEr8t3XMkHMC7K8QLdlgRBORvmCtPgG3nhUtu2Q&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=3" target="_blank">A
Network for Grateful Living</a></span> and a beloved teacher on
spiritual gratitude. While his vocation may seem unrelated to his
experience living through a fascist regime, Br. Steindl-Rast draws
important connections between the two in <span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60cQjfQ1ppTYdwmfxz22ZD0bxD7r-X5JYXlgQqxaZGanl6C2Yep4Mcr6hI0X8x9x5-eJyEaoMCySq-48caCml79d4UH_D-QzaaFHHjhcN4dUF&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=4" target="_blank">his
2016 conversation with Krista</a></span>. “To open your eyes and
know another day, we can’t take it for granted. In my youth, we
couldn’t take it for granted, because every night, the bombs fell,â€
he says. “There are all sorts of reasons why you couldn’t see
another day, and you do. And that’s a wonderful thing.â€</p>
<p>This week, we’re returning to Br. Steindl-Rast’s <em>On
Being</em> interview for its wisdom on how joy and gratitude take
shape in difficult times like now. He frames gratitude as a
practice, rather than a reaction to what’s outside our control. “You
can’t be grateful for war in a given situation, or violence or
domestic violence or sickness. There are many things for which you
cannot be grateful,†he acknowledges. “But in every moment, you can
be grateful.â€</p>
<p>He breaks down gratefulness into three steps — what he calls
the “stop, look, go†methodology:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Stop </strong>is about stepping away from the movement
of the world and of your mind. “Most of us [are] caught up in
schedules and deadlines and rushing around, and so the first thing
is that we have to stop, because otherwise we are not really
coming into this present moment at all, and we can’t even
appreciate the opportunity that is given to us, because we rush
by, and it rushes by,†he says.<br><br>
</li><li><strong>Look</strong> means to assess and behold the situation
in front of you. As Br. Steindl-Rast asks, “What is the
opportunity of this given moment, only this moment, and the unique
opportunity this moment gives?â€<br><br>
</li><li><strong>Go</strong> is the practice of gratefulness that comes
from stopping and looking around. “If we really see what the
opportunity is, we must, of course, not stop there, but we must do
something with it: Go. Avail yourself of that opportunity,†he
says. </li></ul>
<p>A practice of gratitude is not about dismissing sadness,
anger, fear, or confusion. Rather, it offers us the opportunity to
see that we often experience multiple feelings at once; to welcome
joy into the same places where we hold grief; to turn our attention
to what is quietly growing and breathing day by day, which, to our
possible surprise, includes ourselves.</p>
<p>Yours,<br>Kristin Lin<br>Editor, The On Being Project</p>
<p>P.S. — We’re pleased to share this new meditative short film,
“<span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=5eYJiEr8t3XMkHMC7K8QLYQj-3665VR-oE8oGkxB7ABlLcAv8Gjj00xsj1bMJEIs&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=5" target="_blank">Blessings</a></span>,â€
from A Network for Grateful Living featuring six “everyday
blessings†from Br. Steindl-Rast.</p>
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reality-based practice and choice.</p>
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<p><em>A note from Krista</em>:Â John Paul Lederach is one of
the wise people in our world — someone who, behind the scenes, has
helped transform conflict across the world over decades, in places
like Northern Ireland, Colombia, and Nepal. He's been <span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60YHl4yYNFw7vouxAGYJevvkEYfswUmF6JOnBn9kUzHEqsNlbmtINViqIvN5G7guYLVfH_AUiz4yHst6yrpuIRr_wIQM3KCXUvJneUA3jZi9OlVQLZNyR_OWeyVAuBnuWFA&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=13" target="_blank">a
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Being</em></a></span> about moral imagination and social courage. He
is also a haikuist and has long kept a daily haiku journal. Now he
is creating an “unfolding poem,†for which he’s gone back to his
journals from the last week of 2019, when the world first had
mention of a possible “new virus.â€</p>
<p><span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60f4M-whzwLA8gFGLayrJVrytw0Wh8jwalp7hetUuw9VVHIh62IW55tAWbgBKFM55RnAeJ-5-0m7Yn2B1R9O60uw&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=15" target="_blank">We’re
delighted to publish this work in progress at onbeing.org</a></span>
and will share weekly updates through the post and in this
newsletter. “Haiku are nature bound, yet the 5-7-5 [syllable
structure] always weaves a delicate human filament,†he writes.
“These days our frail membrane tries to remember forward.
Remembering forward requires we keep our frail filaments soft and
supple.†<span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60f4M-whzwLA8gFGLayrJVrytw0Wh8jwalp7hetUuw9VVHIh62IW55tAWbgBKFM55RnAeJ-5-0m7Yn2B1R9O60uw&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=16" target="_blank">Read
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<p><strong>Read | “</strong><span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=pNTS0efJp5bkpQ6QKqNG1GvmBe4CBZXcKSZdzIxtRDySquVQWd1WxrsF9FDehC0xpVin9xUUWZRcIHZGm5h0zrB4C_qAR72ENzq7lgcY1yE&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=17" target="_blank"><strong>She
Who Persists! Our Passover Blessing For
You</strong></a></span><strong>†by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie |
Lab/Shul<br></strong>While many of the usual traditions surrounding
Passover and Easter have been upended this year, a number of digital
offerings are emerging to meet the moment — including this Passover
blessing from Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie.</p>
<p><strong>Read | “</strong><span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=Be0Y0G_0mYmZUxHyxsxxEol103CBghDxHt9C7vTQJq27M3EH2syYTZ6njTOfiDJ8M0GPFmY8ooj_h4dAaHLCgL83rfTcz20Up5MXQSkLt58&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=18" target="_blank"><strong>Principles
for a pandemic</strong></a></span><strong>†by Sister Joan
Chittister | <em>National Catholic Reporter<br></em></strong>The
Benedictine nun (and former <span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60VXcITjM7E2JIjVa2DtibyQ9exsuRz5Z_pmA4aHsx--HKmsLfweViRBZFr1UW8QA4eteZUqRBqn3ZlCrGHj0UyE&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=19" target="_blank"><em>On
Being</em></a><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=8PJfsSHPCCkfAn6dgMO60VXcITjM7E2JIjVa2DtibyQ9exsuRz5Z_pmA4aHsx--HKmsLfweViRBZFr1UW8QA4eteZUqRBqn3ZlCrGHj0UyE&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=20" target="_blank">
guest</a></span>) reflects on what her community’s tradition has
offered her in the wake of the current crisis.</p>
<p><strong>Watch | “</strong><span><a href="https://engage.onbeing.org/r?u=GQ96LxW7tJscudkL8mlwNzVEKXk7dMDJzwJlfbbiiRZEVuWhyU1teAX7Em-Y6eWOhwYj9z829k5nTUD3FQTgCw&e=d75c5474de340cd212c70e06a05f8885&utm_source=onbeing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200411_the_pause&n=21" target="_blank"><strong>Stations
of the Cross: A Reflection for Good
Friday</strong></a></span><strong>†by Pádraig Ó
Tuama<br></strong>Our theologian and poet-in-residence shared this
Good Friday meditation last week.</p>
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