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​PRIME TIME
October 19

Daybreak is the few moments of rising light and building energy. As the sun rises, and night becomes day, we enter into the traditional monastic period known as “Prime.” If you rise to greet the sun or whenever it is that you rise, that is your Prime Time.
Rev. Matthew offers his early morning reflection below.
Breaths of Deep Gratitude
by the Rev. Matthew Funke Crary
 
I engage in this gratitude practice each day at 10am when many of us stop wherever we are and whatever we are doing to take ten breaths and welcome gratitude.

It is a sequence of five breaths, world, teachers, lessons, humanity, and action, with one breath following each. 

You can practice it at any time. Know that we are doing it together whenever you engage it. 
- Rev. Matthew

Breathe in, welcome gratitude for the world. This can be thankfulness for our little blue dot in space, the dynamic global of life, or the presence of nature around you. Breath out.

Breath in and out, holding your gratitude for the world. 


Breath in, welcome gratitude for the teachers. They can be ancient voices, someone that has been with you all along, or a new presence. Teachers do not have to be people. If they are they might be people you love and trust or those that you despise and loathe. Judgement isn't valuable here, only gratitude for the teacher who offers you a lesson.

Breathe in and out, holding gratitude for the teachers. 


Breathe in, welcome gratitude for the lessons. This is gratefulness for a newness you are being offered, for learning information and facts, or the lessons awakening your own soul. Breathe out.

Breath in and out, holding the gratitude you feel for the lessons.


Breathe in your humanity. Your unique and beautiful mind, heart, body, and spirit weave a human being that has never been before and will never be again. Breathe out.

Breathe in and out, cherishing your humanity.


Breath in your action. Arising from you humanity, through the lessons you have learned, by the many teachers you have been given, you can act and influence change in our world. Breathe out.

Breathe in and out, blessed by your action.​
  
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