In this guided meditation, led by Julie Potiker you will be focusing on your gifts and what it is you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "At the Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

"At The Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Now when I walk through the market

I think of how someone else here

beside the stir-fry cart and the tie-dye tent

has just lost a beloved

and is hiding tears behind sunglasses.

Not knowing who they are,

I try to treat everyone with kindness.

Meanwhile the day is beautiful

for everyone, no matter how whole,

how broken our hearts. It gathers us all

in a grand blue embrace.

I stroll through the gift of a Friday

morning surrounded by arugula

and strawberries, muffins, lilies,

and all these other fragile hearts,

all of us saying Excuse me, Good morning,

How are you, It's nice to see you today.

-At The Market, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

(from "The Unfolding poems").

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