Sunday, June 19th, 2022
With this Sunday being Father’s Day, we’ll discuss how father energy influences us and how our experiences with various father figures at different stages in our lives shapes who we are and how we relate to others. We’re “in person” this week and hope you can join in the conversation!
Father’s Day Blessings to you,
Colleen and Mark
Quotes to ponder
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
~ Ruth E. Renkel
“My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do: be there.”
~ Max Lucado
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’”
~ Harmon Killebrew
“Confident women are raised by loving dads.”
~ Nitya Prakash
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.”
~ Pam Brown
Looking Ahead/Notes of Interest
Paths of Heart Schedule (Currently, 2-3 times per month on Sundays, 10:30 a.m.)
Mask Policy Update:
Though Covid cases are ramping up again, most resultant illnesses seem to be generally mild, and we are leaving it up to attendees whether they want to mask or not.
June 19th – in person
June 26th – No Paths of Heart. We will plan on taking about every other Sunday off to conserve Paths of Heart’s financial resources.
July 3rd – ZOOM gathering
July 10th – No Paths of Heart
July 17th – in person
July 24th – No Paths of Heart
July 31st – in person
August 7th – ZOOM gathering
August 14th – No Paths of Heart
The above schedule is subject to change as we collectively craft the path of our gatherings going forward. 🙂
Thanks to all who’ve completed our Paths of Heart Questionnaire on “Survey Monkey” so far! We ask if you haven’t done so to please take just a few minutes to fill it out, even if you rarely (or never!) attend our gatherings. We’ll be grateful for your responses by June 30th so we can make some collective decisions about the future of Paths of Heart. If you didn’t receive it and would like to, please let us know (it seems there may have been a few glitches). Thanks so much!
Sending prayers and affirmations ~ If anyone would like to receive our collective positive thoughts and prayers on a Sunday morning, please ask! We can be as specific or as anonymous as you’d like. Let us know if we can surround you and your loved ones in love and light!
Giving Opportunities – Paths of Heart continues (into its 9th year now!) almost entirely through your generous donations. What a beautiful thing! If you find value in what we do here each week, please consider donating to keep our non-profit running smoothly, with grace and ease. The past 2 years saw a severe drop in donations and we’d love to regrow our account balance to a more healthy and sustainable level now that we are meeting regularly again. During the pandemic, online donations became increasingly important to our organization, and are always gratefully accepted on our website, https://www.pathsofheart.org/donate/. You can even sign up for monthly giving, which we deeply appreciate. Thanks so much for supporting the continuation of Paths of Heart! We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, so your donations are tax deductible!
Two ways you can further support Paths of Heart are detailed below:
King Soopers Community Rewards Program – if you shop at KS and have a rewards card, you can “link” it to Paths of Heart and King Soopers will donate a portion of your dollars spent (around 5%) to our non-profit. Go to https://www.kingsoopers.com/i/community/community-rewards to sign up and link your card. Our organization name is Paths of Heart and organization number is RG782. Let us know if you want help signing up!
Amazon Smile – We do love shopping locally and very often do, but Amazon sometimes fits the bill. If you are an Amazon shopper, you can make a difference by shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/81-4175487 to generate donations for Paths of Heart!
“Paths of Heart” Labyrinth and Zen Meditation Garden – This was intentioned to be a community space, so know that you are always welcome to drop by and walk or sit – you do not need to let us know in advance. Do note that we have experienced the outer “halo” of glass blocks in the labyrinth to be slippery when wet, so it’s best to walk it on a dry day (not usually a problem in Colorado!). We also welcome volunteers to help keep our labyrinth looking beautiful and free of debris and weeds. Thank you!
Gratitudes
We are so grateful for those that continue to fully support Paths of Heart, even as we’ve decreased the frequency of our meetings during this time of uncertainty and “readjustment”. We look forward to your ideas and suggestions in our questionnaire as we co-create the next chapter of Paths of Heart.
What are you grateful for today?
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…”
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
~ G.K. Chesterton
About Paths of Heart…
Paths of Heart is a high spirited, heart-centered community where we gather together (in new and creative ways!) for music, poetry, commentary, and dialogue to create and nurture joy, compassion, gratitude, and love – in our own lives and throughout the world. Paths of Heart is a 501(c)(3) Human Services/Educational non-profit organization that uses the arts, especially, to encourage and propel seekers of a better, more peaceful world to find ways to serve, while becoming more kind and compassionate human beings.
We welcome you as we collectively and individually explore the sweet mysteries of life – this is an invitation into co-creation!
Visit us on the web at https://www.pathsofheart.org
We hope our physical paths may cross soon!