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A home is so much more than a physical space. What makes a physical space a home depends in large part on the relationships that can flourish in that space. A home does not stand in isolation. A home is embedded in a web of other homes, interconnected, open, yet with boundaries that provide the … Continue reading At Home with Our Neighbors
When our homes are in disarray our well being suffers. For too long we have treated the earth as primarily a resource for satisfying our material cravings. As a result, the earth is in disarray, struggling, reflecting our own addiction to the sensation of having new and more stuff. What if we treated the earth … Continue reading Treating Earth Like Home
As we re-gather in our beautiful sanctuary for our annual water communion service may we all experience a sense of coming home, finding a home, being at home – within ourselves, in the spirit of our community, and through the shared yearning for a peaceful home for all. As the poet Wendell Berry writes: “And … Continue reading Welcome Home, Here, Now – A Water Communion Service
During our annual Flower Communion service, we are reminded once more of the life-sustaining role that sharing and a generous heart play as we journey with each other through the roller-coaster that is life. Please bring a flower if you can though we’ll have plenty of extras. Our 12th grade youth will bridge and we … Continue reading From This We Live
Life without a sense of wonder is like music without sound or rhythm. Opening ourselves to the awe of what is known and unknown is central to us as spiritual beings, to the experience of the divine, to glimpsing that which transcends the confines of who we think ourselves to be as mortals bounded by … Continue reading Putting On Your Wonderwear
What if we thought of the Earth as a storyteller? What would she tell us? How can we prepare to listen? What lessons might we learn – as we strive to create healthy relationships with each other and with the earth? Which Earth-told stories have been important to you? Let Michael know. Today we also … Continue reading Listen to Your Mother (Earth)
Throughout human history, we have variously celebrated, feared and embraced the multiple, and often paradoxical, traits that characterize the one earth we all share as our home. The earth gives life and it takes life. The earth nourishes and withholds. The earth is beautiful and violent, peaceful and uncaring, fragile and resilient. And whether we … Continue reading Creator, Destroyer, Sustainer
It can be so easy to get stuck stereotyping those who hold different beliefs or values. When doing so we deny ourselves the opportunity to learn from one another, to meet each other in empathy and compassion, and to find commonalities that would allow us to work toward shared goals. Today’s service will be a … Continue reading A UU – Christian Dialogue
Many of us are initially drawn to meditation practice as a way of finding peace in the turmoil of our own lives and the world we live in. This is understandable, good and necessary. And yet on our cushions, we find that the full range of human experience is present. We find not only peace … Continue reading The Practice of Leaving Nothing Out
Some of us identify as Christian, some don’t. Regardless, Jesus has something to offer to all of us. The stories he told and the stories that are told about him are powerful because they speak to longings and hopes, to struggles and paradoxes we all recognize no matter our context. Come and listen to Christian … Continue reading Claiming Jesus
