Some languages have different words for different types of love. Many common words are derived from the word love, including amateur (doing something for the love of it), Friday (after the German goddess of love), and philanthropy (love of humanity) but there is nothing common about how love and lovelessness affects our lives. It is … Continue reading All About Love
For today, choose the door that opens to the inside. Travel the most ancient way of all: the path that leads you to the center of your life. –Jan Richardson, “The Map You Make Yourself” Like the birch trees that drop their lower branches each winter, this season encourages letting go. What needs to be dropped in … Continue reading Journey to the Center of Ourselves
At this interactive service, all will be invited to share a song, story, or poem that evokes wonder or joy for them. Stacy will share her favorite ways to create joy and experience wonder each and every day. Join for a time of reflection and fellowship on Christmas morning at this all-virtual service. Join Zoom Meeting: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/95944578863 Or … Continue reading Reflections on Wonder and Joy
This is the time of year that is believed to be a thin time, a liminal space, when the veil between this world and the next is most transparent. Cultural celebrations such as All Souls Day, All Saints Day, Dia de los Muertos, Samhain, and others all happen at the end of October or beginning … Continue reading Service of Remembrance
The farmer and poet, Wendell Berry, says that if we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are. Sense of place is a term that implies being in a geographic area (space) for enough time to feel belonging. To belong to a place is to practice, again and again, being rooted in … Continue reading A Superior Blessing: Exploring Spiritual Sense of Place
Our new ¼ time UU minister, Stacy Craig, will conduct the annual water ceremony during her first service with us on September 4. This is the symbolic gathering of the waters that sustain us. We bring it from the places we have been during our summer travels or at home. It is also an in-gathering … Continue reading Water Ceremony
