SPEAKER_00: Welcome, beloved.
SPEAKER_00: You are seen, you are loved, you are known.
SPEAKER_00: Take a moment to center here, inviting all of the pieces of yourself, not as you think you should be, but simply as you are.
SPEAKER_00: God has named you beloved before you ever did a thing to earn it.
SPEAKER_00: And as we center into this time of prayer and stillness, let's remember together the invitation of the prophet Micah, chapter six, verse eight.
SPEAKER_00: What does the Lord require of you?
SPEAKER_00: But to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
SPEAKER_00: This is not a commandment to burden us, but it is a path, a way of being, a rhythm for our humanity, and a doorway into divine life.
SPEAKER_00: Let's take a deep breath together.
SPEAKER_00: Inhale, receive the gift of this moment, and exhale, release everything that is not needed right now.
SPEAKER_00: Again, slowly.
SPEAKER_00: Inhale peace.
SPEAKER_00: Exhale striving.
SPEAKER_00: Feel your feet grounded on the earth.
SPEAKER_00: The same earth that is held prophets, saints, and Jesus Himself.
SPEAKER_00: You too are being held.
SPEAKER_00: You belong here.
SPEAKER_00: As your breath slows, notice you are both human and divine, made from star dust, yet carrying the breath of God.
SPEAKER_00: Micah six, eight gives us a simple and sacred pattern.
SPEAKER_00: Do justice.
SPEAKER_00: Love mercy.
SPEAKER_00: Walk humbly.
SPEAKER_00: Setting all things right.
SPEAKER_00: Kindness, mercy is not a weakness.
SPEAKER_00: It is strength expressed in gentleness.
SPEAKER_00: Humility is not smallness.
SPEAKER_00: It is the grace of knowing that you walk with God in every breath.
SPEAKER_00: This is how we live as divine beings in human form.
SPEAKER_00: By letting love become our rhythm.
SPEAKER_00: By seeing God in one another.
SPEAKER_00: And by remembering that we are not separate, never alone.
SPEAKER_00: Let your heart rest in this truth.
SPEAKER_00: There is no doing of justice or mercy apart from God's presence within you.
SPEAKER_00: All of it flows from divine union.
SPEAKER_00: Let the words of the prophet Micah become a prayer within you.
SPEAKER_00: Do justice, love mercy.
SPEAKER_00: Walk humbly with your God.
SPEAKER_00: Slowly bring your awareness back to the room.
SPEAKER_00: Feel your feet on the earth once more.
SPEAKER_00: Notice your breath.
SPEAKER_00: Steady, calm, alive.
SPEAKER_00: You have met God in the stillness.
SPEAKER_00: As you go from this place, may you walk humbly in your belovedness.
SPEAKER_00: May mercy shape all of your words.
SPEAKER_00: And may justice flow through your hands.
SPEAKER_00: Go in peace, beloved, rooted in the oneness of God's love.