HUUF WEEKLY

I hope these words find you well.
I’ve recently started reintegrating regular visits to an Acupuncturist/Naturopath into my world again. This lovely woman, who sees me out of her cozy, pine-ceilinged office right outside her home, and who gently peppers our conversation with things like, 
“This point is for strength and resolve.” 
“This one’s for clarity.”, 
“This point helps fortify the heart.” has become a welcome presence once more. 
As she treats me, we talk about the things she’s seeing in my body and the ways I can support my own healing, in addition to the loving care she provides. It turns out I have some chronic inflammation issues rearing their ugly head at the moment, and so we’ve sat down to strategize some dietary and lifestyle changes I can make to bring my being back into balance. 
And though, at times, I’m daunted by the shifts she’s asking me to make – alterations both mild and radical to my daily rhythms, routine, habits and comfort zones – I am reminded, also, that if nothing changes…… Nothing Changes. 

I can keep trudging forward, I suppose, grinding the axe of the familiar a layer deeper, hoping that some Deus ex Machina force or moment will save me from myself. 
Or I can turn towards the difficulty, as it were. 
Take a deep breath and the first few steps down an as yet unknown path, tentatively yet steadily walking myself into a new field of being. 

I sit with this metaphor as I contemplate the life of our Fellowship. 
As I look at the familiar forms of Sundays and children’s classrooms and singing and potluck-ing and all of the former ways in which we came together, which once seemed so immutable, fixed. And yet this gigantic fissure has transpired in our world. And the pieces – which once fit so seamlessly together – don’t connect in quite the same way anymore. 

Do the rituals available to us even feel relevant and useful to us in a post-pandemic world?

In a world which is changing, has irrevocably changed….
What changes do we, as a people of faith and persistence, need to make to meet the needs, tend the hearts, fortify the bodies, of this ruptured world?
The question before us is never whether or not change will come.  It will.  It has.  
But rather, to ask what part we choose to play in the re-shaping of our world.
How do we want our Beloved Community to shift to meet this moment?
What new rituals, practices, and commitments are we ready to make to conduit the healing that is needed at this time?

Thank you for engaging with these questions with me.
With one another.
Here’s to taking the life of this Fellowship in our hands and growing it 
into the next blessed Iteration we’re called to become. 

yours,
in grace & gratitude,
Amy Day (she/her)
Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration

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