Welcome.
Today I'd like to invite you to join me for a moment of remembering what it means to be humble and to feel a deep connection to the earth.
As a way of honoring our roots and strengthening a sense of community,
I invite you to sit with me outside on the land.
Perhaps you have a sit spot in your yard or you'd like to sit on the grass in a nearby park.
Whatever feels comfortable for you,
This is your time.
It's your time to cultivate connection within your soul and with nature.
I'm grateful to be here with you.
The Latin word for humility is humilitas,
Which means lowness or to be grounded.
Humility also originates from the word humus,
Which means coming from the earth.
I love the word humility because it grounds us in the place of belonging to the earth.
For each one of us there is a place here and from this place we reach towards possibility,
Towards love,
Contribution.
Let's begin with some deep breaths.
Place your hand on your heart as you breathe and take a big inhale with me and exhale.
We'll take a few more deep breaths to settle ourselves,
To slow the pace of your thoughts,
To soften our hearts and our gaze.
As we breathe in,
Think about gazing inward at your inner landscape.
As we ground ourselves,
We're going to honor our humility.
As we inhale,
Imagine the air coming into your body like drops of water,
Nourishing you like rain nourishes the land.
I wonder if you may sense a temperature or a taste on the air.
Follow the air as it travels through your body,
As it comes in through your nostrils and into your mouth,
Through your lungs.
Feel the way it nourishes your whole body.
I invite you now to join me in placing our hands on the earth.
If you're outside,
You can really feel into the ground that you are sitting on,
The soil,
The dirt.
Feel into the textures and imagine the roots that are growing underneath you.
Meet the earth's life force energy with your hands.
Greet it with your love and welcome the earth's energy into your body.
As you inhale,
Welcome humility into your heart.
And as you exhale,
Release any expectations that you may have for yourself and for others.
In this moment,
You are free.
Free to be one with the earth.
With each breath,
Imagine the roots below the surface extending and meeting other roots in the ground.
Send love from your body,
Through your hands,
Through the roots,
To other parts of our global community.
When we sit with the earth and we meet in this place of love and oneness,
We feel the loving energy of all beings in nature.
We belong here.
We belong to the earth.
Humility grounds us in the spirit of greatness,
Not because we want to be great,
But because to belong to the earth is great.
To breathe,
To stand,
To love,
To be alive is great.
To walk this life with humility is to remember that you have a place of belonging to the earth,
To this great community of love that is life.
And as we rest our hands on the earth and connect to the land,
Let's breathe in the energy of that community.
Offer your breath,
Your love in return.
It is through this reciprocity that we nourish each other.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for your love and your humility.
