Happy New Year!!

Dear WISDOM Subscribers:



Our best wishes from the WISDOM Board of Directors for a Happy and Healthy 2008. May it be a year where we, as women, make progress toward a more peaceful world.



Please get your registrations in for the WISDOM Martin Luther King event on Sunday, January 20th. We look forward to a day of coming together at the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church for a prayer service in the African American Faith Tradition, and an interfaith gathering at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History.

We would also like to direct your attention to the World Sabbath for Religious Reconciliation on Sunday, January 27th at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. This is a wonderful interfaith gathering for World Peace that involves our youth from various religious institutions around Metro Detroit. Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Baha’i, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Zoroastrian children will be making peace banners that will be woven into a peace quilt after the World Sabbath is over, and displayed at various religious institutions in Metro Detroit. We will have music and dance along with prayers for peace!! Check out the website at (www.wsdayofpeace.org). As soon as the brochure is ready, it will be sent out to all of you.



We would like to share the following prayer with all of you from Gather the Women. (http://www.gatherthewomen.org).



Dear Women of the World,

We are clearly entering a time when each of us is being asked to hold the human family in our tender care. Whether that holding is required in our personal lives or in the global theatre, the nurturance that is the biological heritage of women everywhere is sorely needed.

Yesterday, via our global nervous system, we witnessed the murder of a courageous Pakistani woman, Benazir Bhutto, who came forward to make a difference. Coming as it does at this time of the year, her death seems a talisman of what is to come as the world faces its issues and crises. Many of us can feel the choice as it presents itself to us in this moment… to turn toward fear, or to continue to believe in a positive future for us all.

Let us take the season to reaffirm our love for each other and for humanity, to join together in family and community wherever we are, however we may, and affirm our commonalities… the inherent value of our children, the beauty and abundance of nature, the love of life itself.

Now is the time more than ever to master our personal conflicts, to love deeply and whole-heartedly, to gather together and support each other as we seek to turn our crises into opportunities for change. We invite you to join us in holding a field of compassion and nurturance for humanity, today and throughout the coming year... to stretch beyond fear into the truth of who we are... one interconnected human family.

With deep appreciation for the many women everywhere who trust that human beings will overcome our local and global difficulties, with love and greatness and deep compassion for one another,



Gather the Women Global Matrix