Doing My Part (Part 3): Holding Space | Jake Haber (6.28.26)

Meditation | Roger Pierce (6.28.26)

Enjoy Roger's meditation from the services on June 28, 2026.

Doing My Part (Part 3): Holding Space | Jake Haber (6.28.26)

What does it really mean to “hold space” for someone? Many of us were taught that love means fixing, rescuing, or solving another person’s pain. But what if one of the greatest gifts we can offer isn’t advice or answers...it’s our presence? In this message, we look at grief as a natural expression of love, why our impulse to fix often comes from our own discomfort with pain, and how healing frequently begins when people feel safe enough to be fully seen.   Quotes:   * “To love the world through all its falling apartness—to cradle it even now.” — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   * “The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.” — John Vance Cheney   * “When we hold space for other people, we open our hearts, offer unconditional support, and let go of judgement and control… It means that we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they’re on without judging them, making them feel inadequate, trying to fix them, or trying to impact the outcome.” — Heather Plett   * “The basic question in relationships is: Are you there for me?” — Sue Johnson   * “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” — Carl Jung   * “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

Meditation | Robyn Nemes (6.21.26)

Enjoy Robyn's meditation from the services on June 21, 2026.

Doing My Part (Part 2): Serving Your Medicine | Jake Haber (6.21.26)

What if your purpose isn’t something you have to discover, but something you’ve already been living?   This week at Aldea, we explore the ancient ideas of medicine and dharma as the unique gifts, perspectives, wounds, and strengths that make you you. Drawing from Indigenous wisdom, the Bhagavad Gita, poetry and psychology, we reflect on how our pain can become compassion, how our uniqueness becomes service, and how even the smallest acts ripple outward into the collective.   Quotes:   “A medicine man is not a doctor. He is a man who helps people find harmony.” — John Fire Lame Deer   “Better one’s own dharma, though imperfectly carried out, than another’s dharma well performed.” — Bhagavad Gita 3:35   “No one else has ever lived your life. No one else can bring the particular gift that you were born to offer.” — John O’Donohue   “The things that break our hearts are often the very things that open them.” — Francis Weller   “All flourishing is mutual… In giving to the earth, we are given.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer   “By healing ourselves, we heal the world.” — Mark Nepo   “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman

Meditation | Mary Cox (6.14.26)

Enjoy Mary's meditation from the services on June 14, 2026.