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Below are our listings of ways you can become involved with ‘the love that we are’ from anywhere in the world.
Further details of any of the videos shown can be found on the Some simple prayers, Some guided meditations, and ‘Simply be’ meditations Playlists of our You Tube channel CLICK HERE
Prayer collectives
‘Weekdays at One’
At 1pm on weekdays, you are invited to join in a short prayer, for us to focus together on an aspect of God’s love. You can follow these short videos below, with eyes open or – if safe – closed, or you can focus on the theme of the prayer and use your own words.
If you cannot make 1pm, any time will still be good, and will still connect us in our prayers, as we hold, are filled with, and send out the light of God’s love. Or we connect to the golden thread within and around us.
Focus of Prayers
Monday – Being God’s love
Tuesday – God’s loving peace
Wednesday – God’s healing love
Thursday – Unity in our Diversity
Friday – Forgiveness
Collective Meditations
Below is a playlist of guided meditations, each between 3 and 9 minutes long. There is a choice of two videos for each day of the week, plus one for any time you choose. Each day has a clear focus, such as our ‘courage’ or ‘healing’ in God’s love.
You can watch the video with eyes open or – if safe – closed and follow the meditations at whatever time is best for you. By collectively meditating we can connect to the focus for each day, no matter what time we practice, and be lifted by knowing we are sharing our active intention.
The videos are filmed on hand-held camera, and the times when the picture moves with the breath can remind us to ‘soft-focus’ our eyes and simply ‘go with’ the meditation.
Monday – Love
Tuesday – Peace
Wednesday – Healing
Thursday – Acceptance
Friday – Courage
Saturday – Knowing (breath)
Sunday – Being
Anyday – Hope
‘Simply be’ meditations
For anyone who prefers or would like to try more simple meditations, with very few guiding words, there is a ‘Simply be’ meditations Playlist on the YouTube channel, which has a growing collection of short meditations, with nature and beautiful images and sounds to rest in, in God’s love. Here is a selection of eighteen of these, to enjoy anytime.
Playlist
1) waterfall
2) close water
3) fire glow
4) stillness and breeze
5) The Light of the World
6) Sunlight on water
7) A prayer for peace
8) … In Spring
9) … With Spring bees
10) … In the dance of God’s peace
11) … With a dragonfly of transformation
12) … With a dragonfly resting in the sun
13) … In the reflections of God’s love
14) … Moving with the breeze
15) … In the wonder of God’s love
16) … With the flowing leaves
17) … And know that you are loved
18) … Simply…be
'Simply be' meditations
Zoom Meetings
To be confirmed
‘Live’ gatherings
To be confirmed
All sessions and gatherings held by the website and The Hope Centre will be held in the trust of the love that we are, and I hope very much you can join us.
Active Loving and Forgiving
It is a strong value of ‘the love that we are’ that God’s love is an active verb, an energy of loving, and that we are here as creation to express, enjoy, be challenged by, and learn from this love, as God is loving through us. God doesn’t ‘need’ us to be here to able to love, as God has loved since before the beginning of time! But the more we can reconcile to the love that we are, the more of God’s loving can come through us. And heal us. And heal our planet.
Reconciling with the love within us often comes through forgiveness, of our self and of others. I met a young boy with cerebral palsy once, in an orphanage in Vietnam. He showed me the power of forgiveness, and his inspiration has stayed with me for over twenty years. We named the charity we set up to help empower the children (The Kianh Foundation www.kianh.org.uk, Director Jackie Wrafter MBE) in his honour. Here is a poem about Khanh.
The more we can actively reconcile ourselves and ‘come home’ to being loving, the more hope we can have.
This prayer, often known as the Serenity Prayer, can help guide us towards the peace, courage, wisdom, and joy of re-connecting to God’s love. And the more we re-connect, the more we can transform.