Embracing Mutual Accountability starts with Personal Responsibility. If there were ever a time when that was not only more needed, but more supported, it is now. As systems and ways of life are dismantling around us and life has decided to wake us to the power of the moment, we are often left feeling there are no stable answers to “what do I do now?” That’s when taking a deep breath, getting quiet and discovering anew who we are and what is important to us can become our guid

If Embracing the Unknown opened the door and Adaptability and Resourcefulness taught us to move through it, Creativity is what we build once we are standing on the other side. Creativity at Emberlight is not reserved for artists, though we have plenty of those. You may hear Scott Sheerin or Conrad or Greg Lathrop playing their flutes at the crossing fire or to accompany a labyrinth walk. There's also Jessica Chilton, and her Spirited Improv that includes music and sound and s

Adaptability and Resourcefulness is the practice of meeting a changed circumstance without needing the circumstance to change first.

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to a young correspondent to be patient toward all that is unsolved in the heart, to try to love the questions themselves. That is Curiosity, in its truest form: “not the hunger to explain the mystery, but the willingness to live inside it, unresolved, and find it beautiful anyway.”

Continuing with our Respect for All Beings series, we shine the light on Awe and Gratitude. Think of a time when you felt awe. What happened in your body, your heart? Did you also feel gratitude for that moment, for what stirred your wonder, for life itself? Awe and gratitude are inseparable and transformative. Great thinkers throughout time have recognized this. The Jewish theologian and author of God in Search of Man, Abraham Joshua Heschel, wrote: "Awe is more than an emot