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Light up the World - with love, prayer and service. The Network for Grateful Living has collaborated with the URI on an interactive presentation called "Light up the World". They have designed an inspiring vision of the world lit up with hundreds and eventually thousands of "light-providing organizations."
As they describe it on their site: "Thousands of groups worldwide take a stand for a sane and fair political, environmental, and economic future of our planet. They constitute what the New York Times called an emerging superpower for peace. Our Light Up the World feature spotlights groups of this kind on a spinning globe, where you can see them visible together in one place for the first time."
The spinning globe has begun by including all the URI Cooperation Circles. Other "light-providing organizations" can add their organizations' purpose and web address by contacting the staff at http://www.gratefulness.org/lightup/world.htm
We at URI are very grateful to gratefulness.org for requesting this collaboration and working together to sustain this site. We will be providing update CC information to Gratefulness every three months.
Other grateful delights await you on their website, such as the "Light A Candle" feature and thoughtful writings by founder, Br. David Stendl-Rast.
About the Network for Grateful Living www.gratefulness.org.
A Network for Grateful Living (Gratefulness.org) is a member supported, non-profit organization. Vision
A worldwide community dedicated to gratefulness as the core inspiration for personal change, international cooperation, and sustainable activism in areas of universal concern. Purpose
To create a global network of people whose spiritual practice – grateful living – fosters personal fulfillment, ecological concern, and action on behalf of peace and justice. Mission
To build up and expand an interactive website as the focus for a global community of people whose spiritual practice is grateful living.
To translate the universal message of gratefulness to address specific concerns such as world hunger, peace and justice, religious tolerance, and environmental issues.
To partner with other organizations and institutions who want to explore how gratefulness can transform and energize their own work and mission.
To demonstrate the interconnectedness between gratefulness and the healthy flow of resources in a spirit of sufficiency.
To promote through print, radio, and television public awareness of gratefulness as a power for change.
Reported by Barbara Hartford |
