UULent #care and #mutuality Today was an exciting day. I harvested my very first crop of bananas! At last year’s auction (2021) I bought a couple banana trees from Ken and Dorothy. They came and helped me find the best sunny spots in my yard to plant them. Ken dug the holes and I was…

#UULent day 22 #worship This is our worship space. It is a sacred space, built in the 1980s by our congregation. They designed it, put down the foundation, built the walls, and had a roof put over our heads. They put in lights, fans, and a stained glass chalice. They painted the walls and put…

#UULent day 15 #tomorrow Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. – W. E. B. Du Bois. When I saw the word “tomorrow” on the Lent calendar for today, I had to really think about why it was there. It’s all open to interpretation, of course, but I also know that…

#UULent Day 8 #humility “I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.” –Jane Goodall Alexandria brought this picture home last night from her grandmother’s. I haven’t seen it in years. Of course, it…

Day 1, UULent, Resilience Wikipedia defines resilience as “… the ability to cope mentally or emotionally with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly.” Oxford languages says resilience is “the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” But I have to ask, if you survive a crisis, can you really…

How will our love grow? Our 8th UU Principle affirms and promotes journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse, multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. In order for our love to grow, we must be able to recognize racist and…