This meditation led by Julie Potiker focuses on our connection to others. We are the light, we are connected, and we are the helpers. She completes the meditation with the poem, " Look for the Helpers", by James Crews.

"Look for the Helpers", by James Crews

Today, I will look for the helpers-the woman pouring sunflower seeds

from an orange bag into the feeder,

and a chickadee, having eaten its fill, lifting off

so another can feast there.

Someone holding open

the fogged-over door of the coffee shop

for a stranger who smiles and says thank you in spite of the news.

I will watch workers dressed in neon vests with shovels and buckets,

filling potholes across the city, the asphalt steaming as they spread it

over the street, then tamp it down, repairing what they can.

-"Look for the Helpers", by James Crews

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