Receiving Compassion
This guided meditation is 15 minutes in length and incorporates your imagination and silence to explore a time you received compassion. It is a centering practice and begins with a time of guided relaxation. Thanks to Frank Rogers and Center for Engaged Compassion for permission to share this meditation. (www.centerforengagedcompassion.com)
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Stay Home, Y’all
Sunday worship at FCC Pomona will be ONLINE ONLY until further notice. We are following guidelines and information provided by LA County Public Health and the Center for Disease Control. Please do NOT come to church on Sunday. All other days of the week, staff will be working remotely. If
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Julie’s Jar: Let Us Lament
How do we sing the Lord’s song in a virtual land? Our faith is incarnational, embodied, physical. This season of COVID-19 is disembodied, distant and dispersed. It is beyond challenging to BE the church, the body of Christ in these days. I miss the gift of voices singing together our
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Julie’s Jar: It’s the Brain
“There’s no clear evidence that willpower even works,” says Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor at the Brown University School of Public Health and the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love. Shouldn’t we be able to choose “the right thing, the heathy thing, the
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