Direct Steps to Becoming a Sacred Activist
1. Write down one thing that ment to find out who they
has made you feel grateful are and what they need, and
to be alive today. You will invite six of your friends to
discover that this reminds make a commitment with
you of how blessed you are you to begin supplying it. In
just by being alive in a world acting like this, you will be
full of ordinary wonders. helping to animate the heart
of your community.
2. Write down—just off the
top of your heart—10 things 11. Make a commitment
that are sacred to you. In today, even if you are
the act of writing, you will experiencing financial
start to be inspired by your difficulties,to tithe between
deepest values, beliefs and five and 10 percent of
sources of emboldening joy. what you earn to a cause
of your choice. Over time,
3. Think of someone who tithing will give you a
has hurt or betrayed you, great and healing sense of
and make a commitment being useful. The cause you
to work on forgiving him or are helping will become
her. Imagine this person in increasingly precious and
front of you, surrounded by personal to you until you
light, happy and well. Pray for this person to realize his or her life’s will wish, naturally and simply, to do more.
purpose. Source: The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism by Andrew Harvey
4. Read a short text from any of the world’s spiritual traditions that
inspires you with the love-wisdom of the prophets and mystics who
know God directly.
5. When the text you have chosen starts to light up your spirit, pray a
short prayer that aligns you with the pure deep love that is longing to
use you as its instrument in the world.
6. Make a real commitment to a spiritual practice. If you do not yet
have a practice,start now with a simple meditation. Over time, this
meditation will awaken you to your own deepest sacred desire to see
all beings consciously living in harmony, and to your sacred courage
to express this desire in action.
7. Strengthened by prayer, practice and inspiration, turn now to your
life and the people in it. Everyone, especially in a time like ours, has
friends who are grieving or ill or looking for a job or in financial dif-
ficulty. Commit now to ringing one of them up and asking him or her
what you could do to make the burden easier.
8. Make a commitment to skip one meal in the coming 24 hours and
send a check for the money you would have spent on it to a reputable
organization dealing with world hunger.
9. Make a commitment to keep small change in a pocket so that you
can always give something to one of the thousands of homeless on
America’s streets.
10. There are people around you who are suffering. Make a commit-
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