For each day of Chalica we will offer activities, some are fun and some are more reflecting, a chalice lighting, and a meditation. Gather everyone together, light the chalice, and breathe into the principles with us each day.

Activities:

• Volunteer as a family or make a plan to volunteer on a regular basis
• Write a Holiday card for a veteran, person, at a nursing home, or a neighbor
• Go for a walk and randomly compliment people you pass.
• Write a journal entry about what peace means to you
• Write a journal entry about what liberty means to you
• Write a journal entry about what justice means to you
• Read stories of injustice from around the world
• Read about other holidays from around the world.

Chalice Lighting: (If you don’t have a chalice at home, remember that the point of a chalice is that it is a symbol so any candle will work.)

Meditation: 
There are two meditations.

Beatitudes for Justice Builders by Lindi Ramsden

Children’s Christmas Sermon by Gary Kowalski

Here is a musical meditation as well. This is “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir.

Season’s Blessings,
Cricket