Celebrating Blessings. What can a month of “celebrating blessing” look like? It can look like a group of people, centered in love, coming together to recognize and uplift the blessings that we all are to each other. It can look like a group of people, who know that each one of us is a blessing,…

Today is another one of those days when I struggle to find the right words. Any words, really. After all, no words, no thoughts, no prayers, no magic wands can take away the grief, the anger, the fear, and the hopelessness that so many of us feel, once again, after another mass shooting. Nothing can…

“How do we live compassion, justice, love, accessibility, in alignment with this planet and with the people on it? How do we live our values?” –adrienne maree brown, emergent strategy (115). This is a really important question that we, as a religious organization and spiritual community, must come back to again and again. It is…

Call to Action: Reproductive Justice This Saturday, May 14, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm in Munn Park. Ban Off Our Bodies Rally/March. The UUA has a collection of resources on their website to help us learn about our Unitarian Universalist commitment to reproductive justice. https://www.uua.org/reproductive Here’s an important quote that gets to the point: “Decisions…

A Memory and a Thought about “Nurturing Beauty” I don’t have a whole lot of memories from when I was in Kindergarten. I remember my teacher, Mrs. Pennington, what the classroom looked like, the paper mache giraffe I made from toilet paper tubes and a shoebox, and the blank white pages at the end of…

Awakening: A Spiritual Practice Personal spiritual practices are so important to caring for ourselves, caring for others and the Earth, and to awakening to the miracles of life! I offer you this spiritual practice, as presented to us in the SoulMatters Small Group Ministry resource (if you are not sure what this is, feel free…