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Blessing It All Heather Concannon

Blessing It All By Heather Concannon

Blessing It All by Heather Concannon

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Blessing It All: Rituals for Transition and Transformation by Heather Concannon

As humans, we grow and we change, we grieve and we celebrate. Let Blessing It All be your guide to foster meaning and community as you mark the moments in your life.

Our personal lives and the lives of our communities are marked by moments of transition and transformation. As individuals, we grow up, we move, we start new schools and new jobs, we begin and end relationships, we have children and if we are lucky we get to watch them grow, we lose people we love, and we discover more about who we are. As communities, we honor people entering new life stages, we reckon with natural disasters and national traumas, and year after year we mark the cycles of the seasons.

Traditionally, we often mark birth, marriage, and death, and yet these are not the only moments that touch our lives and shape who we are. In this stunning collection, editors and ministers Heather Concannon and Allison Palm and contributors invite you to bless it allmoments that are ordinary and profound, tender and heartbreaking, joyful and celebratory, and everything in between.

An expansive collection, the rituals in Blessing It All foster community, joy, and healing in moments like the joining of a blended family, changing names and pronouns, honoring Pride Month, having an abortion, getting a prosthesis, surviving sexual assault, ending a marriage, and so many others.

The ritualswritten by a diverse array of contributors with lived experiences that add depth and authenticity to each offeringare designed to be led by anyone inspired to do so, with clear instructions and additional insights and guidance. They are suitable for communities, congregations, family, and individual use. And they can happen anywhere our lives happen, wherever people or families or communities gather, because that is where we encounter the holy.

May you find connection and commitment, inspiration and invitation, a blessing and a balm in these rituals.

Blessing It All Reviews

"A gorgeously written and practically useful book of blessings for every occasion. Sensitive and imaginative, these words will touch your heart and lift your spirit!" Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

"With so much shifting in our lives and our world today, here is a valuable resource for engaging the power of rituals to make brave space for change. Heather Concannon and Allison Palm have gathered in one volume a rich and diverse collection of specific rituals that honor the sacred ground of transition. They also offer wise guidance for developing new rituals and blessings that are inclusive, expansive and empowering of participants. In our personal lives and our communities, Blessing It All will illuminate a promising way through times of great change. Karen Hering, author of Trusting Change: Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation

Rev. Palm and Concannon provide the necessary tools for each of us to create rituals for every occasion. In this remarkably comprehensive compendium, distilled from a roster of diverse authors, are rituals to mark lifes milestonesunions and separations, losses and gains, transitions and continuances, quiet moments of reflection and boisterous outbursts of joy, retreats for rest and healing, and marches forward toward action and justice. We are reminded of the sacredness of every moment and are compelled to bless them all. Anthony Y. Stringer, Ayanna Kafi Loebe, and Rev. Duncan Teague, authors of Imani Rituals: Nurturing African Spiritual Heritage

This book is a treasure chest. Open it and you will find 73yes, count them, 73rituals, some for occasions you may be used to celebrating or otherwise honoring in ritual, and other rituals that never even occurred to you. Each one is presented complete with a materials list, a script, and notes on the intention and purpose of the ritual. There are also suggestions in this book for how to create your own ritual. Here you will find still more treasurereflections on what ritual is for and how it can deepen and transform the shared life of your Unitarian Universalist or other faith community, your family or group of beloved friends, even your relationship with your own transforming self. This book can bring us all to our senses about what we value and how to embody our values in meaningful ways. A treasure chest indeed! Rev. Barbara Child, editor of The Spirit That Moves: Readings and Rituals for Times of Change and Transition

Revs. Heather and Allison have offered us a gift of such immeasurable value. They offer us each a way to deepen our spiritual lives with reflection and connection. They have offered our communities a way to care for each other more deeply and hold each other in love. And they have offered our movement a way to deepen our spiritual lives and grow our tradition toward love and care. Matt Meyer, musician, educator, worship leader, and author of Desmond Gets Free

About Heather Concannon

Heather Concannon serves as the settled minister of the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Previously she served as the Minister of Faith Formation at the Unitarian Universalist Area Church in Sherborn, Massachusetts. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist and lives in Boston with her family.

Allison Palm serves as the settled minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she worked for the UU Ministers Association and served congregations on Long Island and in the Boston area. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist from Minnesota and lives in Nashua with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Handle with Care: Context and Covenant for Rituals

Practical Tips for Rituals

Permissions and Guidelines for Adaptations


Rituals for Individuals and Families


Grounding and Centering

For Daily Reflection

For a New Year

For Everyday Adventures

For Discernment

For Entering and Exiting Silence


Milestone Moments

For Preparing to Give Birth

For Adoption

For Weaning

For Starting at a New School

For Life Transitions for a Person with Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder

For Coming Out

For Affirming Names and Pronouns

For Release from Prison, Jail, or Detention

For Retirement


Partnership

For the Union of More Than Two Partners

For Acknowledging Community in a Wedding

For a Blended Family

For Separation or Divorce (for Both Partners)

For Separation or Divorce (for an Individual)

For a Partner Near the End of Life


Creating Home

For Blessing a New Home

For Bidding Farewell to a Home

For Blessing a Temporary Home After Disaster


Blessing Our Bodies

For Assisted Conception

For Abortion

For Planned Hospitalization

For a Hysterectomy

For Beginning Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

For Gender Affirmation Surgery

For a Service Dog Partnership

For an Assistive Device

For Head Shaving during Chemotherapy

For a Loved One with Dementia or Cognitive Decline


Grief and Memory

For Losing a Wanted Pregnancy

For a Baby Who Has Died or Will Soon Die

For Blessing a Body after Death

For Blessing a Space Where a Loved One Has Died

For the Dedication of a Memorial Bench or Tree

For the First Anniversary of a Death

For Burying or Scattering the Ashes of a Pet


Rituals for Congregations and Communities


Healing, Hope, and Blessing

For Mending a Broken Covenant

For Honoring Grief and Gratitude

For Letting Go

For Those Living on the Threshold of Significant Change

For Honoring Elders

For Carrying Hope after Collective Loss

For Honoring Our Connection to Water

For Saying Goodbye to a Sacred Space

For Breaking Ground on a Building Project

For Blessing a New or Renovated Church Building

For the Days following a Natural Disaster

For the End of a Natural Disaster Season

For the First Anniversary of a Natural Disaster


Seasons and Cycles

For Blessing Backpacks

For Beginning and Ending a Congregational Year

For Celebrating the Harvest

For Coming Out Day

For Veterans Day

For Transgender Day of Remembrance

For the Season of Creative Dormancy

For Grief during the Winter Holidays

For the Winter Solstice

For a New Year

For Earth Day

For Acknowledging Mothers, Fathers, and Parents Days

For Pride


Working for Justice

For Blessing the Organizers

For Direct Action

For Nourishing Justice Makers

For Lamenting and Setting Intentions to Heal White Supremacy Culture

For Blessing a Congregational Black Lives Matter Banner

For Survivors of Sexual Assault and Harassment

For Trauma in the News


Crafting Your Own Rituals

Additional information

NGR9781558969209
9781558969209
1558969209
Blessing It All: Rituals for Transition and Transformation by Heather Concannon
Heather Concannon
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Paperback
Skinner House Books
2024-08-01
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