You don't have to be a spiritual person to have a sacred experience. You just have to be the kind of person who feeds the horses even when you don't want to — because the holy stuff doesn't show up for people waiting around for it. It shows up for people doing the unglamorous, thankless work of taking care of something else, on a morning they'd rather have skipped.
QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:
- What's the unglamorous, thankless thing you keep showing up for anyway?
- Have you ever stumbled into something sacred in the middle of an ordinary chore?
- Can you hold both the tenderness and the cruelty of nature as equally true?
- Who — or what — are you responsible for, whether you feel like it that day or not?
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening Song
0:53 Growing Up With Animals
1:51 A Morning Fog
2:57 The Horses Are Missing
3:52 A Third Horse Emerges
4:44 Who Blessed Whom
5:19 Animals in Every Culture
6:04 Breath and Spirit
7:25 The Goldfish in the Bowl
8:58 Nature's Tooth and Claw
10:19 Beauty Despite the Cruelty
11:09 Showing Up Every Day
12:57 What Pets Teach Us
13:41 You Don't Need a Pet
14:55 Why We Bless
16:06 Closing Blessing
16:50 Closing Song
This message, "Who Blesses Whom?," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.
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