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So many of the relationships we value and depend on get stuck when we feel we are no longer heard, when we sense our perspective is not even understood, when we perceive our only option to be fight or flight. Conflict, polarization, and frustration are real. So are the tools that can help us break … Continue reading Listening Communities
The environmental crisis we face is real. In Sand Talk, Aboriginal scholar and artist Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates what can be gained by viewing global systems through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge. Community and connection over individualism and fragmentation, respect for the land, recognizing the oneness of everything. As he writes: “The whole is intelligent, and … Continue reading The Oneness of Everything
How intentional are you about cultivating relationships – with others, with the environment, with the holy, with your own self? What if today, this week, this year you were even more deliberate about devoting time to caring for the people, the places, and the communities that matter to you? What would change for them? For … Continue reading Caring on Purpose
Each time we enter a new group, a new situation, a new community, we look for cues as to whether we are welcome, wanted, and safe. Welcoming words are a start, but we also notice the physical space, the visual messages, and the behavior of others in the community as we determine whether we, too, … Continue reading The Possibility of Belonging
Paying attention to our breath is common to many spiritual practices. We get about 25,000 chances each day. It helps us be more mindful, calm, and focused. What is less remembered is how crucial the way we breathe is to our well-being. As James Nestor in his book Breath writes: “No matter what we … Continue reading The Lost Art of Breathing
As we re-gather, still COVID-constrained, online and in person, we celebrate the flowing back together of the life of our community. Come be with us as we introduce our new intern ministers, Dan & Jeff, and welcome our new choir director, Marianne. May our hearts unfold as we reflect on the power of water – … Continue reading The Power of Water – A Water Communion Service
Live Stream As our Song of Welcome (“Gather the Spirit”) will have us sing: “Gather in hope, compassion and strength. Gather to celebrate once again.” After another unusual year that tested our resolve and resilience, we have reason to be hopeful, grateful, and to celebrate. We will sing the praises of this year’s volunteer award … Continue reading Flower Communion Sunday: Gather In Hope
We are our stories – the way we tell them, the way we listen to them, the way we pass them up and down the generations. So what are our stories as Unitarian Universalists? Come hear a range of well-known, barely known, reframed, falsely claimed, surprising, outdated, presently emerging stories that may make you cry, … Continue reading Tell Me a (UU) Story
Online Only In the words of Albert Schweitzer: “The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.” Faking it until you make it can be a valuable tool in unbecoming the person you were forced to be by those around you or circumstances. It … Continue reading Fake It ’til You Make It.
Online Only We all have lists of things we will be glad to let go as soon as the pandemic allows. This service will explore the other list, the list of gifts this past year has inadvertently dropped on us in the way we interact with each other, with ourselves, and with the environment. What … Continue reading Becoming Post-COVID
