Welcome to Wyoming Interfaith Network's Spiritual Life Team's monthly email, Threaded Wisdom.

Threaded Wisdom is an opportunity to foster our interfaith relationships through a sharing of prayers, meditations, and practices from diverse faith traditions—a threading together of wisdom that allows for a greater depth of appreciation and understanding of others’ faith traditions.

Each month, we welcome community members to share words and practices that are related to a particular theme. Submissions can be a prayer, an excerpt from a text, a meditation, or an embodied practice.

Note that submissions don't necessarily have to be from a particular religious figure or tradition. We welcome shares from texts or individuals outside of a spiritual context who have offered inspiration and insight, which could be a philosopher or even a neuroscientist.

Thank you for joining us as we honor each other and ourselves through this threading together of wisdom.

With gratitude,

Wyoming Interfaith Network Spiritual Life Team

P.S. You'll find next month's theme toward the end of the email.

Katrina shared the following excerpt written by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá of the Baháʼí Faith:

Because the ground is rich, the rain of the divine outpouring is descending. Now you must become heavenly farmers and scatter pure seeds in the prepared soil. The harvest of every other seed is limited, but the bounty and the blessing of the seed of the divine teachings is unlimited. Throughout the coming centuries and cycles many harvests will be gathered.

Tablets of the Divine Plan
Pamela offered this contribution from the Gospel of Matthew:
You will know them by their fruits, Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from thistles ? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit , nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits.

Gospel of Matthew 7:16-20
Mohamed, a member of the Islamic faith, provided this commentary on Heavenly Farmers:

As far as I know the concept of the heavenly farmer does not exist in the Islamic tradition. However if I take this concept as a metaphor, this would be my attempt, although feeble, about explaining it.

A heavenly farmer would be the sincere believer who sowed good works in this life and like a good farmer would reap the better and plentiful rewards in the hereafter.
Jordan shared the following Proverb:

Be sure you know the conditions of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations

Proverbs 27:34-35

Next month's theme—Fulfillment
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