July 28th, 2024
We learned this week (thanks, Rev Scott!) that the International Day of Friendship is July 30th, a day dedicated to celebrating and appreciating friendships worldwide. More importantly, it aims to promote understanding, tolerance, and inclusiveness among different nationalities, communities, and cultures, and to promote a Culture of Peace. “Our world faces many challenges, crises and forces of division – such as poverty, violence, and human rights abuses – among many others – that undermine peace, security, development and social harmony among the world’s peoples.
To confront those crises and challenges, their root causes must be addressed by promoting and defending a shared spirit of human solidarity that takes many forms – the simplest of which is friendship.” ~ UN.org
What a beautiful thing and something worth celebrating! Join us on ZOOM this week as we delve into this initiative even further. Here’s the link:
Paths of Heart Zoom
Time: Jul 28, 2024 10:30 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81672051307?pwd=ubrun5vOhFEME9gizSjuMvFaa1So49.1
Meeting ID: 816 7205 1307
Passcode: 666506
In friendship, Colleen and Mark
Quotes to ponder
“If we will listen to the heartbeat of another, we will hear the great rhythm of the Universe resounding in us. Through our friends the Infinite speaks a divine language.”
~ Ernest Holmes
“Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”
~ Rumi
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.”
~ William Butler Yeats
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
~ Rumi
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Looking Ahead/Notes of Interest
(dates subject to change)
Sunday, July 28th – ZOOM Paths of Heart Gathering, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, August 4th – NO Paths of Heart Gathering
Sunday, August 11th – NO Paths of Heart Gathering
Sunday, August 18th – In Person Paths of Heart Gathering, 10:30 a.m. with Community Potluck afterwards
Sunday, August 25th – NO Paths of Heart Gathering
Sunday, September 1st – In person Paths of Heart Gathering, 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 8th – ZOOM Paths of Heart Gathering, 10:30 a.m.
Please mark your calendars for the above scheduled dates!
Giving Opportunities
Paths of Heart continues to welcome and appreciate your generous donations as we work to bolster our finances and return to regular Sunday gatherings. During the pandemic, online donations became increasingly important to our organization, and are always gratefully accepted on our website, https://www.pathsofheart.org/donate/. There is an option for recurring monthly donations, if you so choose. We have also added Venmo as an easy way to donate to Paths of Heart! Just type in @PathsofHeart to find us in the Venmo app. Thanks so much for supporting the continuation of Paths of Heart. Remember, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donations are tax deductible!
Another easy way to further support Paths of Heart is through the 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! This one small gesture (by just 25 or so families at this point) helps to generate over $1,000 a year for Paths of Heart, so we appreciate your consideration in participating in this valuable program!!
“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.
Gratitudes
We are grateful that with Colleen’s recovery, we’re able to get out and about more and enjoy the things we love – music, friends, family, food, camping! We get to see Myles again as he’ll be doing another Colorado tour soon.
What are you grateful for today?
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
~ Willie Nelson
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
~ Meister Eckhart
“Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.”
~ Sri Chinmoy
“Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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!