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