This month in our Soul Matters group  we will reflect on the following quote

“In spectacular arrogance, our mainstream vision of resilience encourages us to ignore, minimize, and even punish the desire for our greatest resilience assets: interdependence, collective versatility, and shared care. Instead of revealing our relationships to one another, our environments, and the systems we live in, this vision highlights and glorifies self-sufficiency, limitless positivity, and individual strength against all odds. It makes us less resilient, not more.”

Ask yourself

• With so much of our world seeming fragile and on the brink of collapse, do you still have faith that humanity will be resilient?
• If saving the world seems no longer within reach, how might creating islands of sanity be your road back to hope?
• Have you been trying to act strong for far too long?
• What communities have sustained you in their challenging times? How?

If you are not in the Soul Matters group, come and join us before the service on the second Sunday (February 8) and explore these questions in community.  We hope to see you there.

Rev Lucy