What Does It Mean to Be a Community of Healing?

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An Ethical Culture Society can be a place where we are all challenged to be the best people we can be, and to have relationships where we act to elicit the best from others. Sometimes, with that challenge, we also need healing from past hurts. When we get a cut to our arm, a physical hurt, our bodies have a way to heal that wound that is automatic; we don’t have to think about it. But emotional healing requires conscious effort. And when we cause emotional harm to another – whether intentional or not – we also need to consciously work to acknowledge, heal, and repair the harm. Another function of an Ethical Culture Society is as a place to learn and practice to heal and repair our relationships.
There are many aims and goals of an Ethical Culture Society: being a community of healing is one of those. I invite you to consider what healing you need and what support you might find in community, and to consider how you might help in the healing of others around you, both in your interpersonal relationships and in the wider world. How can we not only recognize but heal racial injustice? The harm we are doing as people to the earth and to the humans and other living beings on the earth? To those who go to bed hungry in our city, nation, and world? To those who fear the war and violence around them?
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