Proposed Article II Revision:

Transformation. We adapt to the changing world.

We covenant to collectively transform and grow spiritually and ethically.

Openness to change is fundamental to our Unitarian and Universalist heritages, never complete and never perfect.

We can impact the surface, the forest, the health of the whole world with our earnest, organic underground labor. Learn from what moves under the earth. – adrienne maree brown

Excerpt from Sunday’s Sermon that I did not have time to read above quotes for context):

Yesterday began the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is an example of personal and collective transformation. Each individual participates in fasting from sunrise to sunset. The fast is not about pushing away food, it’s not about suffering, it’s about making room for god, for the divine. It’s about personal spiritual discernment, spiritual cleansing, aligning with ones values and attaining spiritual wholeness. At the end of the fast, family and community join together– to communicate, share, nourish, digest, and transform. Each individual has a role to play in the transformation of the community towards spiritual and ethical growth.

My point is not to encourage you to engage in this particular practice of daily fasting, but to encourage you to find a spiritual practice in which you can transform yourself in order to participate in the transformation of the collective. How can we get closer to a divine love so that we are more deeply connected and able to support one another? How can we, as nature, find our place in nature so that we sustain symbiotic relationships?

As adrienne maree brown says: ourown lives and work and relationships [are] a front line, a first place where we can practice justice, liberation, and alignment with each other and the planet.