[Fuusm-l] Daily Meditation Offering - Thurs. NOV 26 2020

[revkat at suddenlinkmail.com]

THURSDAY  NOV. 26  	A Day of Reflection and Gratitude
Song:  Oh What a Beautiful Morning   
*Video can be found on FUUSM FaceBook

Grace  from Earth Prayers, ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon
..
The food which we are about to eat
Is Earth, Water, and Sun, compounded through the alchemy of many plants.
Therefore Earth, Water, and Sun will become part of us.
This food is also the fruit of the labor or many beings and creatures.
We are grateful for it.		May it give us strength, health, joy
And may it increase our love.				(Unitarian Prayer)

RECIPES
Spinach Balls (Medallions)
2 boxes of chopped spinach, drained well- squeeze out water by hand.
1/2 -to 1 Cup melted butter. 
1 medium onion		1/2 teaspoon garlic powder	pepper to taste.
1/2 C -to 1 Cup parmesan cheese  (leave it out if you are non-dairy).
2 Cups stuffing mix or bread crumbs.  mix by hand,
4 eggs.

Roll into walnut size balls, then flatten to have more surface area to crisp.
Lay out on a baking sheet, to freeze & bake later, or bake after chilling the mixture.  375 degree oven for 10 mins, flip them over and 5-10 mins more. 

Blueberry Crisp Bars     (from Stonewall Kitchen)  (Martha McGovern)
Ingredients  for bottom crust
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
8 Tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cubed   (I used salted)
1 egg yolk
1 jar Stonewall Kitchen Wild Maine Blueberry Jam (12.5 oz)  
(I used a 13 oz. jar of other brand.)

Ingredients for crisp topping
4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed   (or dark brown sugar)
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup old-fashioned oatmeal
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon  (I used 1/2 teaspoon, heaping)

Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
 Prepare an 8x8-inch pan with non-stick cooking spray and lining it with parchment paper so that the parchment comes up the side and hangs over the edge.
In large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar & baking powder for the bottom crust.
Add the butter and egg yolk and cut it into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture resembles a wet sand.
With floured fingers, press the bottom crust evenly into the bottom of the pa
Gently spread the blueberry jam evenly on top of the crust.
Combine all topping ingredients.      Sprinkle on top of jam.
Bake 25-30 minutes OR until jam bubbles in center and crisp topping browns
Cool before cutting.


READING  A Memory & Mindset   Xiye Bastida, 17 yr old climate activist: 
(Shared by Cindy Taylor)

I remember when I was younger; My family and I would go in the highlands of central Mexico by the lake to eat lunch. 

My mom would take out the food that we brought
I clearly remember her taking out tortillas
As so the prayer would begin:
	Thank you to Mother Earth for gifting us with air water and places for our food to grow.
Thank you to the hands who planted the seeds
Thank you to the hands who harvested the corn
Thank you to the hands who made the tortillas
and for the transportation that it took for all of us to come together and share this beautiful moment. 
 
That is how I grew up, with the mindset that we have to thank everything.
We have to thank the Earth because it gives us everything we need to live.
It gives us shelter food and all that it asks is that we protect.
 
And to grow up with that love for the earth and that reciprocity and that reciprocal love and understanding was just how my whole world was depicted to me..

LESSON 		Prepare to Care:  Stop Line 3
See Youtube video from Winona LaDuke, protector of Water, Food & Earth. Founder of Honor the Earth organization.  (Wild rice fields threatened by unnecessary  and dangerous pipeline).

Many communities have had to address threats to our water supplies and natural habitats and resources.  Wetlands protections and permit application safeguards and regulations are not clearly understood, circumvented or ignored by those with power to grant permits for oil and gas development, even when the facts of the cases are compelling.  We can learn more, and speak out.

(WECAN)  Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network - delegations called for divestment at the corporate level from ongoing extractive fossil fuel projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline, Line 3 and Keystone XL, all of which pose severe threats to Indigenous rights, sovereignty, lands, and ways of life.