Good afternoon, dear Friends!

It’s Monday, May 11th and we are blessed to have Julia Polter, priest in Boston and Chaplain at Brigham and Women’s hospital with us. (The audio doesn’t seem to be working- please try the video: Find the video at this link.  The password is 4v#jYg&h.

Julia and Patrick speak about her path into the chaplaincy work, her work now teaching divinity students there from many different backgrounds and the extraordinary challenges and blessings of being a chaplain during a pandemic. Come along for the walk!

At the end, Julia shares an embodied spiritual practice she has taken up from Julian of Norwich.  Here is the exact practice from Julian:

AWAIT (hands at waist, cupped up to receive): Await the Divine’s presence, not as you expect, hope, or imagine, but just as it is in this moment.
ALLOW (reach up, hands open): Allow a sense of the Divine’s presence (or not) to come and be what it is, without meeting your expectations.
ACCEPT (hands at heart, cupped towards body): Accept as a gift whatever comes or does not come. Accept that you are not in charge. Accept the infinity of the Divine’s presence, present whether or not you are aware.
ATTEND (hands outstretched, ready to be responsive): Attend to what you are called to, actions that the Divine invites you to from this stance of openness

Our thanks to Elliot Chamberlin who composed the opening music, "Seeking Together", and to Nathaniel and Abigail for the song, "By the Mark" at the end of the episode. Thanks, of course, to our seminary student, Jeana Lee, for her increasing digital world capacities!

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."