During the service you will be invited to come forward and contribute the water you have brought, representing what is sacred or special to you, to the common vessel, or you may use the water provided. Families are encouraged to come forward together.
On Being Spiritual
The development of spiritual virtues – loving all of life, even the hard parts; equanimity, compassion – may be entirely a matter of getting our neurons wired a certain way, but the circuitry of spirituality differs from the circuitry of cognition and emotion, though it draws on both.