November 2010 Prayer, Light and Healing Requests

[Callie McAllie]

I know that November is a depressing month for many people. The warm weather fades, the leaves fall, the animals hibernate. It's a month that feels like things are dying, shutting down, passing away.

But November is just as much about the earth settling in to rest and renew.

For me, November is a month of community. It begins with All Saints Day, which just sounds good (and it's my birthday, so maybe there'll be a party). There's often an election, where people come together at their polling place to make their voices heard, and I just love politics. November 15 is the start of deer hunting season here in Michigan, which many find offensive, I know, but here it's like some kind of bizarre barbaric statewide pagan ritual that involves whole families dressed up in blaze orange, gathered around a bonfire at the end of the day in a public place, with music, dancing, and drinking to celebrate the bounty of nature, in this case the bounty of deer, whose numbers are so great that the heard has to be thinned or they would all starve through the winter. Then there's a feast on the third Thursday, where we all give thanks, and it's always worthwhile, no matter how bad things get, to take a moment to give thanks for the good things in your life. Many people also get a four day weekend then, a chance to rest and renew. And, finally, the month ends with Black Friday, which is not a custom I embrace, but which has its merits for helping many retailers finally see a profit for the year's end, stimulating the economy just enough to keep us going for another year.

I wanted to include some pictures, but I just cannot figure out how. So visualize here a lovely November landscape, the ground littered with colorful leaves, the bare branches of a tree silhouetted against a hazy light grey sky, with a cold, quiet bit of river nearby.

And here are some healing quotes for November

"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature." -- W.H. Auden

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. -- Helen Keller

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. -- Buddha

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. -- Marianne Williamson

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. -- Lewis B. Smedes

The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. -- Yoko Ono

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. -- Max de Pree

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. -- Gary Zukav

And here please visualize a pair of healing hands, upraised, with a bright white-bluish light springing from them, surrounding them, surrounding everything, healing everything, healing us, healing our community.

I have not been posting for some time here, but I have been lurking. I sense that there are many people who are hurting, who need healing, who need this month to feel part of the community again, and who need to rest and renew.

So let's all dig in for November. Let's begin the month by appealing to whatever deities we embrace. Let's spend a little time intuitively wooing nature. Let's vote (for sure!). Let's bring our families together with music, dancing and celebration of the earth's bounty. Let's give thanks for whatever we have to be grateful for, because even the poorest of us, when compared to so many others in the world, have so much to be grateful for. Let's share what we can with those others, even if all we have to share is time and compassion. Let's take a moment to rest and renew. And let's end the month by doing what we can to stimulate the economy.

Thank you all, for your continued dedication to this site. You are an inspiration.

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