Join us as we dive into an inspiring conversation with Ashley Reid, an advocate, equity trainer, spiritual coach, and community worker dedicated to restoring justice in oppressed communities. Tune in to explore how true community changes begin with the heart and continue with intentional action.

Waiting to Exhale

Description: This meditation will use guided breathing to remind us to not hold our breath with all of life’s challenges, and how to release deep exhales as we move through them.

The Marin Interfaith Council hosts a monthly meditation with a different faith leader facilitating each month. On July 14, 2021, Ashley Reid led a meditation on listening to your inner child.

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Each month, the Marin Interfaith Council hosts a meditation that is facilitated by a different faith leader, who shares a spiritual practice from their faith tradition. September 9, 2020 meditation featured Ashley Reid.

Enter with no expectations of yourself except to simply be and feel. For God will catch if you feel you are falling

He will raise you up if you feel like your heart is drowning, he will hold you when you feel alone

He will provide community for love and support and He’ll provide rest when the night feels long

For in all of your sadness, pain, and grief, God is always there to provide your soul sweet, compassionate relief.

Our lament is holy, a tool of healing, a tool of resistance, a tool of protest, and a tool of liberation. Do not feel guilt or shame if you are in a space of deep lament. How do we sing the songs of Zion in a foreign land? We don’t, we sing our songs of lament for they are just as holy too!

Here is an invitation to make room for someone new – someone with incredible gifts to share.

This devotional will share scriptures, quotes, and stories to help us to release the stuff holding us back, seen and unseen, so that we might see our divine identities and choose to live as liberated beings like we were created. The first three days we’ll explore what we need to release so we won’t become stuck in an internal bondage, and the last four days will explore how we can find relief and release as healthy alternatives. We must constantly practice releasing darkness so that we might choose freedom from the liberation of light and love.

Love needs us to be accountable for how our compliance, silence, resistance to change, and fear endangers those in vulnerable spaces.

EMPATHY is much larger than having the capacity to emotionally connect and care for the suffering of others; it’s a call to action…

In our times of doubt, exhaustion, and fear, God replies, “You are mine and I shall be with you.”