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.
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Class is ON

Okay, everybody. Class is ON. (But I'm asking each person to use his or her judgment. Stay safe. If you're worried about the roads, I'd rather you'd stay home than risk life or limb.)

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Possible Class Cancellation

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!

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Decision

Class tonight cancelled.

Storm in Tulsa tonight

Hello, Tuesday evening meditation class here in Tulsa.

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!

Tuesday Evening Ongoing Class

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.
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Wednesday Meditation Class

Attention all Center participants.

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.

SO, there will be no 9:00 meditation class this morning.

The value of sitting

A good one I found on Pinterest.

In Praise of Leisure

Here's something I found over on Goodreads. How wonderful!

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. Just taking our time, as we say. That is, letting time take us.

"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?"

"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.

She saw I didn't see.

"It takes time to do this," she said finally.

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.”
― Patricia Hampl, Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

(photo found on Pinterest)

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Messages

"Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."

~Rumi

Joy!

May this wonderful evening be blessed for you all.

And do keep meditating!

Class 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!)

December 21 class?

Hello, everyone.

Please refer back to this spot regarding Saturday morning class cancellation for December 21, 2013. We are under ice storm warnings. 

No Class Tonight

Hello, everyone!

Foundations class for tonight, December 5, 2013 is cancelled tonight due to the weather. Everybody stay safe!!

(And keep meditating, of course!)

Indeed

So, so true

And this is a wonderful way to look at everything.

Garage Sale Postponed

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 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.

So now we are planning the sale for Saturday, May 11.

We apologize for any inconvenience!

Saturday class back on

Saturday morning class members: We WILL have class tomorrow morning (May 4) after all since we are postponing the garage sale.