Creating Dream/Prayer Boxes

This weekend I had the lovely opportunity to facilitate a booth at A Spacious Day, a part of the very cool A Spacious Place organization.

Creating a Dream/Prayer Box

Instructions:


1. Spend a little quiet time thinking about the intention for your box. What do you
want it to hold? Is there a specific theme for your box? What color is that? What shape?

2. Pick a box and decorate it. Be creative.


3. Take some time to meditate on the words you want to put in the box. They may be very specific or general. You may want to use just one word or a series of words.

4. Add words to your box as new prayers or dreams open up.


5. Re-visit your box occasionally and offer gratitude for what has unfolded.

6. Enjoy!



Here is poem that might help you in your reflection:

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.