Wellsprings Congregation

In the weird world of "The Lobster," love is turned into a strange race against an uncertain fate. Where do you crave connection in your life right now? Despite the risks, how might you practice staying open to love?

What are you grateful for right now? What are you conspiring with in your life?

The movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" pits man against man in a cruel office contest. What are the expectations of gender that you grew up with? How are you participating in non-exploitative, healing ways of being?

How do you invite yourself to see what you may be missing? What difficult thing happened to you that helped you to wake up? This message was inspired by the movie "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl."

Where does the impulse to fix show up in your life? How might you practice standing firm around one of your core values?

A stray sock not only inspired today's message, it inspired an original song! Rev. Ken Beldon reminds us that playfulness is an expression of the Buddhist concept of "beginner's mind." Words by Rev. Ken, music by Teresa Nazario, performed live by Melissa Davignon.

Are there pains in your life right now that are asking for time to be digested? Are there areas in your life for which you are compensating that you might learn to let be? This message is inspired by children's literature

Have you had any ecstatic experiences that have changed and enlarged your perspective on life? What are your experiences of flowing ways of being, and how do you open to flow in your life?

1) What practices teach you how to hold different energies together in your life? 2) Where in your life are you currently integrating opposing values?

1) How do you allow yourself space for creative inconsistency? 2) How does your practice of self-care show up in your most important relationships?

1) In what kinds of situations are you likely to see your life as functional? 2) What practices of self-care can you use to interrupt those moments?

1) How do you disengage the auto-pilot and return to presence? 2) What are the ways that you experience “enough, for now?”

1) Do you make self-care a priority? 2) How do you show faith in what's unfolding in you?

1) How do you experience the “all that is in each of us?” 2) What in your life is asking for permission to be let go?

1) How do you allow yourself to be with what is, as it is? 2) Have you experienced important moments of loss that helped re-orient your perspective? If so, what were they?

1) How are you hospitable with your body? 2) What people have taught you most about birth and death?

1) What are you fighting against right now? 2) Where might the healthy expression of anger lead to healing in your life?

1) Do you think you think about death too little, too much, or the right amount? 2) How has grief grown your heart?

1) What is here in this day for you? 2) How do you bring your wandering mind back to presence?

1) How can you tell that you lost connection with the present moment? 2) What brings you back home to your present moment experience?