Sacred Playfulness

Mystical Musings

This Sunday for the Musings is the sacred Palm Sunday holiday for Christianity and is sacred as well at the Spring Equinox for the earth-based religions. We honor these religious celebrations and will create together our own sacred Sunday mystic event, by exploring the fundamental value of Playfulness as a way of deepening into the Mystical. This can sound oxymoronically outrageous as we so often think of the intense suffering the mystic has to endure in order to awaken to the Divine Presence. But then we think of the great masters Nasrudin (a Sufi writer who is a hilarious spiritual teacher) and of course Hafiz (another early Sufi mystic) with whom we have laughed many times in our Musings together. So we have learned that even the deepest teachings can be expressed with humor and delight. This Sunday we continue our exploration of the New Spirituality and we learn the profound value of bringing playfulness to our prayers and meditations and affirmations and of having a playful attitude toward everything that we can during the day. The energy and effectiveness of this is quite astounding. We want to share with you the joy we have found using this attitude. (We have even applied it to tax preparation!) Come and share some Divine play with us, while learning what we can do to make life lighter and easier!