tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93508912024-03-12T19:18:26.730-05:00Meditation Matters - St. John's CenterSharings and reflections by Sr. Ellie Finlay of St. John's Center for Spiritual FormationEllie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.comBlogger3525125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-16602077332919875742020-02-04T21:25:00.001-06:002020-02-04T21:25:30.635-06:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Tulsa is under a winter storm warning with the chance of snow being 100%. Wednesday morning meditation class at St. John's Center for Spiritual Formation is canceled.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">~</span><br />
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Attention all St. John's Center participants. We are considering cancelling the Wednesday morning class due to the likelihood of icy roads in the morning. Please check back here at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) morning for the final decision. Thanks!</h4>
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Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-21994208603599259322017-04-04T17:42:00.000-05:002017-04-04T17:42:19.130-05:00Decision Class tonight cancelled.<br />
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-91777148895196674732017-04-04T17:14:00.001-05:002017-04-04T17:14:51.808-05:00Storm in Tulsa tonight<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Hello, Tuesday evening meditation class here in Tulsa.</div>
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There's quite an involved storm going on out there right now and I'm not sure whether to cancel or not. I'll make a firm decision right about 5:30. Please stay tuned! Theres HAIL at the moment!</div>
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Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-87783515819187614862016-04-26T16:27:00.001-05:002016-04-26T16:28:23.442-05:00Tuesday Evening Ongoing Class<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">For everyone who attends Tuesday evening ongoing meditation class. I've decided to cancel. The weather forecast for between 6:00 and 9:00 this evening is very ominous.</span><br />
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Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-20069699614400200062015-03-04T08:15:00.004-06:002015-03-04T08:17:40.604-06:00Wednesday Meditation Class<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<b>Attention all Center participants.</b></div>
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<b>Cynthia has convinced me that we need to cancel class. Public schools are cancelled and windshields are icing over VERY quickly. Caution needs to be the order of the day.</b></div>
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<b>SO, there will be no 9:00 meditation class this morning.</b></div>
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Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-51114828383999498942014-10-27T07:17:00.000-05:002014-10-27T07:18:01.372-05:00The value of sittingA good one I found on Pinterest.<br />
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-39172542344976246062014-10-25T11:55:00.001-05:002014-10-25T12:01:37.638-05:00In Praise of LeisureHere's something I found over on Goodreads. How wonderful!<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. <i>Just taking our time</i>, as we say. That is, letting time take us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"Can you say," I once inquired of a sixty-year old cloistered nun who had lived (vibrantly, it seemed) from the age of nineteen in her monastery cell, "what the core of contemplative life is?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"Leisure," she said, without hesitation, her china blue eyes cheerfully steady on me. I suppose I expected her to say, "Prayer." Or maybe "The search for God." Or "Inner peace." Inner peace would have been good. One of the big-ticket items of spirituality.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">She saw I didn't see.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"It takes time to do this," she said finally.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Her "this" being the kind of work that requires abdication from time's industrial purpose (doing things, getting things). By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers.”</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">― </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3195.Patricia_Hampl" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Patricia Hampl</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/30897" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime</a></i><br />
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Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-87754727913282599022014-10-20T05:35:00.003-05:002014-10-20T05:37:16.852-05:00Messages<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;"><br /></span>
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And do keep meditating!<br />
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-43341791515418358372013-12-21T06:40:00.000-06:002013-12-21T06:40:17.944-06:00Class is ON!Center participants: Okay. It's raining outside. Rain. As in WET. (Not sleeting.)
SO, we will have class. (But use your judgment. If you think it's unsafe, stay home!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpVcGuLbpcUpG76pcKe-QHGLUMoNeObB1CKWyZ9ZjYShq6ANtTAeu7oor5O9rkb-4uX9JCh3LcPofLUcVjSDPLoxLD9GDcsRgk_est2rsOUjoLWrSup5EuAdmDC-WYH3YlGA/s1600/cat+window+rain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpVcGuLbpcUpG76pcKe-QHGLUMoNeObB1CKWyZ9ZjYShq6ANtTAeu7oor5O9rkb-4uX9JCh3LcPofLUcVjSDPLoxLD9GDcsRgk_est2rsOUjoLWrSup5EuAdmDC-WYH3YlGA/s320/cat+window+rain.jpg" /></a></div>Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-43237069758552037322013-12-20T19:42:00.002-06:002013-12-20T19:42:19.786-06:00December 21 class?<span style="font-size: large;">Hello, everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please refer back to this spot regarding Saturday morning class cancellation for December 21, 2013. We are under ice storm warnings. </span>Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-13162844539397019932013-12-05T15:18:00.000-06:002013-12-05T15:18:05.534-06:00No Class TonightHello, everyone!<br />
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Foundations class for tonight, December 5, 2013 is cancelled tonight due to the weather. Everybody stay safe!!<br />
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(And keep meditating, of course!)Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-22960404136319548702013-07-18T07:01:00.000-05:002013-07-18T07:01:00.522-05:00Indeed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-87569847858358551842013-07-02T06:26:00.000-05:002013-07-02T06:26:10.076-05:00So, so trueAnd this is a wonderful way to look at everything.<br />
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-1089367581055080452013-05-25T00:52:00.001-05:002013-05-25T00:52:36.202-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-10083578280399235702013-05-03T14:41:00.000-05:002013-05-03T14:41:19.164-05:00Garage Sale Postponed<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Well, dear Tulsa area people, I'm disappointed to report that, for the first time in the history of the Center, we have decided to postpone the garage sale originally scheduled for tomorrow, May 4. There is going to be 40% chance of rain </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">all day tomorrow AND the temperature is going to be mainly in the 40s and low 50s. We've decided it will hurt customer response for it to be so damp and chilly --- even if we luck out and it doesn't actually rain.<br /><br />So now we are planning the sale for Saturday, May 11.<br /><br />We apologize for any inconvenience!</span></b><br />
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-10498528247177218882013-04-05T09:34:00.001-05:002013-04-05T09:34:08.233-05:00Excellent question, actually<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-13742338921634912022013-03-19T17:07:00.001-05:002013-03-19T17:07:03.855-05:00It goes both ways....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-41566529722195509622013-03-10T08:23:00.003-05:002013-03-10T08:24:35.131-05:00Simple; also profound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-46807492626532648072013-03-08T07:52:00.001-06:002013-03-08T07:52:25.484-06:00Overcoming despairToday I want to let you know about a brief but very sensible article that will help when we feel a bit overwhelmed by the way the world is:<br />
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<a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/4-ways-to-overcome-despair.html">4 Ways to Overcome Despair</a><br />
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Here's the first way:<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"><i>1. Act.</i> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"><b>As Joan Baez once said, “Action is the antidote to despair.” If you despair about a problem or crisis in the world, do something. Choose actions that will lead to positive, sustainable, lasting solutions; that use your best skills; and that you enjoy doing. You’ll find friends and support in the process; see the positive effects of your efforts, and feel buoyed by the capacity of action to create change</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"><br />~~~<br /></span>Ellie Finlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807252889442220449noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9350891.post-85004847283601537822013-03-04T07:39:00.002-06:002013-03-04T07:39:08.554-06:00Simple. Profound.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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