Please join with Adult Education in reading Pema Chodron’s book, The Places That Scare You. This is a book I depend on to bring me back to the center. You may find it helpful as well. -Marty Bishop

In this book, Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way, so that we may let our circumstances soften us and make us kinder, rather than making us increasingly resentful and afraid. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.

We will meet in the Sanctuary after the service on January 11.