Sit back as you relax into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Church", by James Crews.

Church, by James Crews

When I ask how you are,

imagine a field of untouched snow

stretching blank between us,

waiting for the answer of your steps –

perhaps hesitant at first, then

more certain as you begin to share

the sorrows and joys that sit

like unwrapped offerings

on the altar of your heart.

Here, there is time for you to say

all the words that have weighed

you down, hidden in the body

for years like unasked prayers.

No matter how far apart we stand,

I promise to listen for as long

as you need, in this open-air church

we enter together whenever

we agree to speak of deeper things.

-"Church", by James Crews.

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