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text-align: center;"><span class="font-hoefler-text" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" class="">Accepting What Is</span></span></h2></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; 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display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Father Richard has often said that transformation mostly comes through great love and great suffering. The First Noble Truth of Buddhism shows how accepting the inescapable nature of suffering can lead to greater freedom. Kaira Jewel Lingo, a former Buddhist nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community in France, reflects on coming to terms with the unpredictable challenges of life:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">In the Buddha’s most essential teaching of the Four Noble Truths, he shares his discovery that suffering is a part of life, and there is no escape from it. This is the first Noble Truth and acknowledging it can help us to suffer less. If we can accept where we are, and not judge the disruption in our life as wrong or bad, we can touch great freedom. This is because fighting what is doesn’t actually work. As the saying goes, “whatever we resist persists.”. . .</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thay [Thich Nhath Hanh] often said, “A true practitioner isn’t someone who doesn’t suffer, but someone who knows how to handle their suffering.” We could say that the measure of our accomplishment or success is not that our life has no ups and downs, but that we can surf the waves!</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">This attitude of acceptance is freeing when we apply it not only to our personal suffering but also to the suffering in the world. Once, as a young nun, when I was practicing a classic Plum Village guided meditation, I came to the final exercise, “Breathing in, I dwell in the present moment; breathing out, I know this is a wonderful moment.” Suddenly I found myself stuck when I did this practice, questioning how we could truly affirm it was “a wonderful moment” with all the violence, hatred, inequality, and preventable tragedies that are happening in the present moment all over the world. . . .</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I sat in the question of it and began to see that along with all the suffering and pain, there are also many beings that are supporting others in the present moment. There are many hearts of compassion, opening to relieve suffering, to care for others, to teach, to show a different way. There are people who are courageous and standing up for what they believe is right, protecting our oceans, cleaning rivers and beaches, advocating for those who are oppressed. There are those in every corner of the planet who are quietly doing the things no one else wants to do: caring for the forgotten people, places, species, and doing what needs to be done.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;" class="">When I focused on that other part of the larger picture, I was able to touch that, yes, this present moment is also a wonderful moment. I saw that suffering doesn’t have to disappear in order for beauty to be there. That life is about all of these things. . . . The reality is that there is great terror and pain, and there is great love and great wisdom. They’re all here, coexisting in this moment.</p></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 10px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div class="divider" style="line-height: 2px; display: block; font-size: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 40px; background-color: rgb(196, 192, 183); margin-bottom: 20px;"> </div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p class="size-14" lang="x-size-14" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="font-georgia" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);" class="">Kaira Jewel Lingo,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving through Change, Loss, and Disruption</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Parallax Press: 2021), 28, 30–31.</span></span></p><p class="size-14" lang="x-size-14" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="font-georgia" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Image credit:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-emb-iscopy="true" href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-atiukc-tlkrtuhhul-y/" style="line-height: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in; color: rgb(156, 94, 60);" class="">Rose B. Simpson</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Reclamation II</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(detail), 2018, sculpture.</span></span></p><p class="size-14" lang="x-size-14" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="font-georgia" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);" class="">We featured the artist of these sculptures, Rose B. Simpson, at our recent CONSPIRE conference—so many of us were impacted by her creations that we decided to share her work with our Daily Meditations community for the month of November.</span></span></p><p class="size-14" lang="x-size-14" style="line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="font-georgia" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Image inspiration:</strong> <em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">This piece is of a series of reclamation and it's about finding our identities and our empowerment in our histories and stories and timelines and how do we apply that to our beings in order to become whole.</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—Rose B. 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color: rgb(156, 94, 60);" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Prayer For Our Community</strong></span></span></h3></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p class="size-15" lang="x-size-15" style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: avenir, sans-serif;"><span class="font-avenir" style="line-height: inherit;"><em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Loving God, you fill all things with a fullness and hope that we can never comprehend. Thank you for leading us into a time where more of reality is being unveiled for us all to see. We pray that you will take away our natural temptation for cynicism, denial, fear and despair. Help us have the courage to awaken to greater truth, greater humility, and greater care for one another. May we place our hope in what matters and what lasts, trusting in your eternal presence and love. Listen to our hearts’ longings for the healing of our suffering world. Please add your own intentions . . . Knowing, good God, you are hearing us better than we are speaking, we offer these prayers in all the holy names of God. Amen.</em><br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><a href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-atiukc-tlkrtuhhul-t/" data-emb-iscopy="true" style="line-height: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in; color: rgb(156, 94, 60);" class="">Listen to Father Richard pray this prayer aloud.</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 19px;" class=""> </div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 25px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><h3 class="size-18" lang="x-size-18" style="line-height: 26px; font-size: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(156, 94, 60); font-family: avenir, sans-serif;"><span class="font-avenir" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(156, 94, 60);" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">Story From Our Community</strong></span></span></h3></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p class="size-15" lang="x-size-15" style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: avenir, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span class="font-avenir" style="line-height: inherit;"><span style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" class=""><em style="line-height: inherit;" class="">How do we swap our “ordinary” minds to a deeper mind? It’s never about being right or wrong, but about surrendering to a deeper mind that’s always with us no matter how much we try to keep it at bay. We can call it Christ Consciousness, Holy Spirit, Buddha Mind, Adishakti, or any number of things. No matter what we call it, it needs no vocabulary, and tapping into it is the thing we’re drawn to no matter the word we use.</em><br style="line-height: inherit;" class="">—Rich J.</span><br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><a data-emb-iscopy="true" href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-atiukc-tlkrtuhhul-i/" style="line-height: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in; color: rgb(156, 94, 60);" class="">Share your own story with us.</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);" class=""><div class="one-col layout stack" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: none !important; max-width: 600px !important; width: 600px !important; text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 50px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 241, 239);" class=""><div class="stack layout" style="line-height: inherit; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; max-width: 600px; width: calc(28000% - 167400px); margin: 0px auto; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="layout__inner" style="line-height: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; display: table; width: 600px;"><div class="narrow column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: left; max-width: 320px; width: calc(-12000% + 72200px); text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; min-width: 200px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div class="btn--medium btn btn--flat fullwidth" style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-atiukc-tlkrtuhhul-d/" style="line-height: 22px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in; background-color: rgb(156, 94, 60); font-family: Avenir, sans-serif; text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(247, 247, 247) !important;" class="">JOIN NOW</a></div></div><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1px; font-size: 1px;" class=""> </div></div></div><div class="wide column" style="line-height: 24px; transition: width 0.25s ease-in-out, max-width 0.25s ease-in-out; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; float: left; max-width: 400px; width: calc(8000% - 47600px); text-align: left; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; min-width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;" class=""><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><p class="size-15" lang="x-size-15" style="line-height: 23px; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: avenir, sans-serif;"><span class="font-avenir" style="line-height: inherit;">Was this email forwarded to you? 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Uncover fundamental practices for experiencing divine presence every day. 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