Our Peace Ministry Happening

Bobbi presented an excellent program on Tuesday, and it was the "bonding experience" that she had promised that it would be.

She began the evening with a song instead of a reading. She played Simon and Garfunkle's "Silent Night / The Seven O'Clock News". After we listened to this very powerful song, Bobbi discussed how important the song is to her, and read the words from the news so that we all could hear what the newscaster in the song read to us. After that, we spent some time in quiet reflection, then we shared our thoughts and feelings about the song.

The most interesting exercise of the evening was called "Living on the Mobius Strip" from Parker Palmer's book "A Hidden Wholeness." In this exercise, we used a strip of paper to represent the our inner and outer nature, and saw how the relationship between the two can change during the phases of our lives.

We spent a lot of time reflecting on how we saw the phase that Parker Palmer describes playing out in our own lives, and shared a lot about the times when we our inner and outer lives were and were not in harmony.

She closed the evening by reading a poem by a fellow parishoner named Gene Oulette called "Choices."

It was a wonderful evening, and a great tribute to the spirit of peace this holiday season.