Word of the Year: Harmony
Camas Friends Church will continue its tradition of having a theme or focal “word of the year.” Our word for 2025 is HARMONY. Please journey with us as we grow in our understanding of what “harmony” means for Camas Friends Church in 2025. The following queries might provides some direction for you as you discern the implications and invitations of this word for you and for our meeting in the coming year…
Queries:
What is harmony? What are the signs of its presence?
What practices create harmony? What disrupts harmony?
What does it mean to live in harmony with the Earth?
How can we cultivate a more inclusive, layered harmony?
How can my voice augment the harmony of CFC?
What do I need to experience inward harmony? How do I know when I am experiencing it?
What do we need to experience relational harmony? What indicates the presence of such harmony?
What do we all need to experience communal, global harmony? What are the signs of its emergence?
What does harmony look and feel like in our practice of worship?
How do we guard against coercing people into harmony or championing a shallow, evasive harmony? Where is caution needed when discussing “harmony”?
How do we avoid perfectionism and extend grace to each other as we move toward harmony?
What seeds of harmony are we planting? How will we nurture these seeds?
When is dissonance an important part of harmony? What is dissonance telling us?
How will we resist the destructive forces in our world that undermine harmony or block harmony from emerging? How will we support others in their resistance?
How can we harmoniously work together? How can CFC harmoniously collaborate with others?
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Photo of beach: Matt Boswell