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Welcome to your living room!

Feel like your screens, demands, appointments, or to do lists are running your life? This week's podcast understands that and wants to challenge this filled lifestyle that so many of us feel captive too.

-Maia

Below are multiple ways to engage this week. Choose what feels right for you and your group. You probably won't have time for them all. Find more questions and ideas on this week's Episode Page.

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Check in: Say hi, by sharing your name, something you are looking forward to and something that you've been thinking about a lot this week. Also, consider removing your shoes. That is a good start to making this a sacred space!

Warm up: Cheers! Take any beverage and push it up to the camera as you say "Hello, Melissa (or whoever you want to say hello to). Have then put their glass up to the camera and act as if they are receiving your cup!

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"Creating a state of aloneness in the besieged everyday may be one of the bravest things individual men and women can do for themselves."

-David Whyte, consolations

Quarantine and Covid-19 has forced many people into a state of aloneness and not all of that has been bad.

Where have you found living room in quarantine?

Being alone can be hard and is also necessary, what is your relationship to aloneness?

How do you feel about the world "opening up" again?

Moses and "I am who I am"

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, "I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up." When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then God said, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." God said further,

"I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Then the LORD said, "I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt;

I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters...So come, I will send you to Pharoah to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

But Moses said to God, "If I come to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is God’s name?' what shall I say to them?"

God said to Moses, "I am who I am." Exodus 3.1-7,10,13-14

What is your interpretation of a "barefoot moment" that Greg talks about in the podcast?

When have you been able to answer "yes!" to the question, am I who I am? Take turns sharing stories story stitch style which means keep feedback limited to a sincere, thank you!

Feeling brave? Try writing down privately or typing in the chat things that keep you from answering "yes!".

Your living room, starts and ends in your body! Take some time to do a somatic break out.

Sit up, take 3 deep breaths
One person does something with their body that would feel good (examples: drink water, a neck roll, give yourself a hug, do the hokey pokey)
Everyone else follows suit and repeats that body movement
Then the next person goes!