Tulsa Peace News!

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Time to recharge those activism batteries so we can keep on going!!

Tulsa Peace Fellowship Monthly Gathering

Monday, May 10th from 7-8:30 PM

Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S Harvard

"Can we really change the world without changing ourselves?"

The film, From New Age to New Edge explores this question, as it travels to the remote rainforests of western Canada, where a revolution is in the making. Here, the face of environmental activism is going through radical changes, as it dovetails with the personal growth movement.

Facing their anger, their self doubt and burnout, activists turn inward to find what nourishes and sustains their long term commitment to environmental sustainability. In the end, through practices which promote inner peace and balance, environmental activists move from rage and confrontion to compassion and effective communication, a winning combination which, in 1994, kept the chainsaws away from one of the largest remaining stands of old-growth forest on the planet.

Following the film, Linda Gallahar, Spiritual Growth Director at Fellowship Congregational and doctoral student of creation centered spirituality will facilitate discussion and sacred listening.

Join us for a conversation on how one can live a principle centered life and contribute to the wellbeing of this planet and its inhabitants while balancing that work with attention to the inner need for personal and spiritual growth.

If you ever feel inadequate, tired and burned out, REMEMBER.....Even the great Martin Luther King struggled... He told an audience at Riverside Church, new York City, on April 4, 1967

"A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, (people) do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

"Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on.

"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."

Let's help keep each other's flame going!

Onward through peace and pain,

Nancy Moran