Everything I Know About Mindfulness I Learned From My Puppy

This morning, we will reflect on the ways our canine companions teach us as much as we teach them: Patience, Presence, and Joyfulness. Music will be offered by our Folk Group and Music Director Jennifer Hedstrom.

Worship Associate – Susan Podebradsky

  • The Share the Plate for Sunday July 28th & Sunday August 11th is the Jawdat Family in Gaza. Yasmine Jawdat Arafat Madi, a 37-year old mother of five children, lives in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah on Bahr (in Abi in Karak Al-Thaniyya next to the Water Authority), with her husband, Josie Abdul Karim Ibrahim and her children. Having lived in the north of Gaza, they are currently in the south of Gaza because of the displacement. Words do not do justice to the difficult situation the family is in now. The money raised will be used for food, clothing, clean water, more hygienic conditions and medicine. The Jawdat family was nominated by Jennifer Hedstrom. 

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Order of Service

  • Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
  • Welcome
  • Prelude: “All God’’s Critters Got a Place In the Choir” by Bill Staine
  • Call to Worship
  • Lighting the Chalice and Musical Response
  • Shared Music: “Enter Rejoice and Come In” #361 (gray hymnal)
  • Time for All Ages: “Being A Dog: A Tail of Mindfulness” by Maria Gianferrari
  • Shared Music: “Meditation on Breathing” #1009 (teal hymnal)
  • Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “When Your Best Friend Has Four or So Legs” by Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto
  • Reflection: “Everything I Know About Mindfulness I Learned From My Puppy” with Virginia Harrison, with Training Our Puppy Mind by Heidi Smith
  • Offering: “The Dog Song” by Nellie Kay
  • Joys and Sorrows
  • Shared Music: “Let It Be a Dance” #311 (gray hymnal)
  • Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction

Notes

“Training Our Puppy Mind,” by Heidi Smith (2021 blog post) – woven into today’s Reflection

“When Your Best Friend Has Four or So Legs” – Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto

“Being a Dog: A Tail of Mindfulness” by Maria Gianferrari (video of book)