Sarah's Circle, LLC

Foreword

Introduction

Part One - Children of the Beloved

  Chapter 1 : Who are We?

  Chapter 2 : Sense, Sensing,

                     Sensuality

  Chapter 3 : Sexuality and

                     Spirituality

Part Two - Connection vs.

                  Disconnection

  Chapter 4 : Joy

  Chapter 5 : The Sacredness of

                     Sorrow

  Chapter 6 : Shadow and Beyond

                     Shadow

Part Three - Being for God

  Chapter 7 : Nature as Blessing

  Chapter 8 : Of Solitude and Silence

  Chapter 9 : Bountiful Living: Life as

                     Prayer

Part Four - Doing for God

  Chapter 10: A Mandala of

                      Compassion

  Chapter 11: Living Life as Creation

                      and Creativity

  Chapter 12: The Prophetic Call:

                      Service and Justice-

                      Making

Part Five - Union with the Beloved

  Chapter 13: Where All Our Journeys

                       End

Who are we? We are the sons of Yahweh, the daughters of Goddess, the children of God, the gifts of the Divine, the blessings of the Beloved.  We are the faces of our ancestors and the embodiment of our souls.  We are the poetry of the Master Creator who has blessed us with the beauty, awe, and fecundity that only she can manifest.  We are the music of the cosmos singing the hymns of the underlying presence of love.  In all our colors, shapes and sizes, our differences and similiarities, we are the joy of all eternity.  For the Divine has birthed us as she has birthed all other beings in a delightful genesis of creativity.  However we may define ourselves, we are first and foremost sacred beings who are here to experience who we are as co-creators in this ever-loving, ever-expanding cosmos.  We were placed in this lifetime to reach our divinity through our humanity, to love one another fully and compassionately.  And we do this through remembering who we are, for we are all mystics seeking to merge with the Beloved in the untimate union with All That Is.  We are spiritual beings genetically predisposed to connect to God; this is our destiny.  Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Pagan, Buddhist, Hindu, Indigenous, Atheist, Goddess Worshipping, Taoist, Sufi - we are One.

For we have been given this beauty of life as well as the gifts of thought and imagination so we might remember our oneness.  What is this oneness?  It is experiencing life in its totality, the love of creation and Creator.  The Beloved has given us the task to be a co-creator of our own destiny, both individually and collectively.  We are all imperfect perfections searching for meaning, challenged by God to find our highest selves.  This is revealed through remembering and experiencing; remembering ourselves as divine beings and experiencing such divinity in our everyday lives.  Our experience is in the ecstasy, pain, sorrow, excitement, pleasure, joy, and grief of living and loving, of being and doing.  This is the experience that leads us to evolve as human beings and as soul manifestations seeking always to connect and to love.  This is to remember who we really are - love embodied.