Today Music that Makes Community is beginning a blog series on "What's in your Spiritual Toolkit?" as part of our Fall Fundraising Campaign.  Every week we will share a story from the MMC community highlighting how someone is using the transformative practices of song sharing without paper as part of their Spiritual Toolkit.  We hope these stories resonate with you and inspire you to contemplate what's in your Spiritual Toolkit. 

- MMC's Fundraising Team: Liesl, Caitlin, Sonja, and Conie

Most Monday mornings find me zooming with Music that Makes Community's Monday Morning Grounding. It has been a blessing to me the past three years or so since I started participating. Many times the song or songs we sang on any given morning stay with me for a long time throughout the day. Sometimes when the Zoom is over I find myself in a meditative space. It can be a quiet, peaceful space or it might be an energetic space. Sometimes I will write about the experience, what I'm feeling, any thoughts or ideas that may have come to me. It is a truly blessed experience to come together in a sacred community space as we sing together, share readings together and share parts of our lives with each other. I am most grateful for this piece of my spiritual first aid kit. 

In gratitude,

Mary Capron

Mary Capron is the Pastor of Saint Luke’s United Church of Christ in Dublin, Pennsylvania.  She has been a regular attendee of Music that Makes Community’s volunteer-led Monday Morning Grounding series for three years.

We invite you to join us in this soul tending work by considering a gift of $100 or more toward this year’s “Spiritual Toolkit” Campaign. Our fundraising goal is $50,000 by the end of the year. We invite you to join us in this soul tending work with a gift of any size. All contributions make a difference in our ability to provide programming throughout the United States and Canada -- and then invite others by sharing your stories of how communal song-sharing is part of your Spiritual Toolkit.