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1. Praise for Brothers Wind and Air
2. Decrease Personal Pollutants
3. Breathing Practice and Prayer Flags

Experiential 1:
Praise for Brother Wind and Air

When you emerge from your home to begin a new day, pause for a moment.  Feel the wind dance across your body.  Take a deep breath in, breathing into your soul the goodness of God on the winds.  Breathing out, expel from your lungs and your entire being, all that keeps you from experiencing God.

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Experiential 2:
Decrease Personal Pollutants

When heading to work or the grocery store, rather than driving, decide to walk or bike or take public transportation.

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Experiential 3:
Breathing Practice and Prayer Flags

Elements Needed:

• Colorful squares of cloth, about 8 inches x 8 inches in dimension
• Markers
• Rope
• Clothes Pins

Steps

1. Gather everyone together (preferably outside) in silence
   
2. Share the following reflection:
   

   We gather here together, feeling the wind against our skin, calling to mind the Spirit of God that blows among us and moves within us with every breath we take. 

   We take a deep breath and think about our breath, the molecules of air that enter our bodies through our mouth, through our nose, traveling down our trachea to our lungs, permeating our alveoli were oxygen is transferred from the air to our blood—offering life; where carbon dioxide waste is transferred from our blood to the air, where it offers life for our green-growing friends. 

   We think about those molecules of air, how they move from our lungs to our neighbors lungs, traveling from this space, down the street, bypassing state-lines and country boundaries and borders, traveling across continents and oceans, where it enters the lungs of another and becomes a piece of them. 

   What exists in us will exist in them.  What dwells in them, will dwell in us.  We are not separate.  We are one. 
   

   [Alternatively, read excerpt from David Suzuki’s Sacred Balance (pdf, 102KB)]

3. Allow for silence.

4. Creation of Prayer Flags:

   Just as the air that enters our body is shared with all of creation, so too is our hope and our love and our energy and our prayers. 

   Pass out to each group member a square of colorful cloth and a marker.  Invite the group to decorate the cloth with prayers and intentions for persons in their life and in our world.  Hang these prayer flags in a location where the winds of our God of Sacred Breath blow freely, carrying on the winds our love, compassion, and prayers to all who are in need.

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