
Meaning & Faith
in the Realm of Spirit & Cosmos
🌈 1: Faith often involves gratitude. Work with a book that empowers you to develop a gratitude practice.
Books & Journals
- Living in Gratitude by Angeles Arrien: Mastering the Art of Giving Thanks Every Day, A Month-by-Month Guide
- Wake Up Grateful – by Kristi Nelson: the practice of taking nothing for granted.
- Good Days Start with Gratitude Journal
- The Gratitude Effect by Randy Kamen: 90-Day Positivity Journal. Strategies to identify negative thinking and 3-month journal of daily gratitude.
Websites / Articles
- Reflections from Living in Gratitude – gratitude as the glue that holds us together
- Grateful.org – many resources on cultivating gratitude
🌈 2: Explore a resource on creating ritual and design a weekly practice of your own.
Books
- The Art of Ritual by Renee Beck & SB Metrick: Ceremonies and rituals of your own creation that foster, healing, growth, and change.
- The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile: A handbook of traditional and new ways to turn everyday activities into rituals.
- Imani Rituals by Stringer, Kafi, & Teague: nurturing African spiritual heritage. Powerful rituals centering the African American experience and the African Diaspora.
- Land Healing by Dana O’Driscoll: A wide range of both physical and metaphysical land healing approaches to help address the environmental challenges our Earth faces.
Websites / Articles
- Intuitive, Spontaneous, and Co-Created Rituals in Nature – A really nice starting point for simple nature-based rituals.
- Nature-Based Ceremony – Beyond Belief & Non-Belief – a beautiful article on ritual and ceremony with examples and context.
🌈 3: Faith invites us to be of service. Find an established local non-profit project where you time, work, or donations can be of immediate service.
Websites
- Idealist.org – Volunteer Matching: Most opportunities appear in US, Canada, Mexico, but there are some available globally. Search by location or volunteer skill.
- Points of Light Engage – Volunteer Matching: Easy to search global database of volunteer opportunities in-person or remote. See where it leads you!
- SEARCH: In your search browser, type “non-profit service projects near me” and see where it leads you. Follow your heart.
