When we welcomed two new members into our UUCL community on Sunday, we were reminded that: “Ours is a free fellowship; we have no creeds and you are free to bring your ideas and beliefs to this fellowship to share with others.” This is a beautiful statement of our non-dogmatic religion that reminds us to…

Happy Earth Day! I hope you can all get outside today and enjoy our life-giving Mother Earth. Remember to cultivate gratitude and recognize yourself as an integral part of the web of life. How are your letters from Gaia going? (Spiritual practice that I offered you this past Sunday– if you missed it, email me…

Let’s talk about hope… Come, sing a song with me, come, sing a song with me, come, sing a song with me, that I might know your mind. And I’ll bring you hope when hope is hard to find, and I’ll bring a song of love and a rose in the wintertime. Come, dream a…

#UULent Day 40 (this past Sunday): mercy. I remember that game we used to play as kids- we’d interlock our fingers with someone else’s and try to twist the other person’s hand or bend their fingers until one person couldn’t stand the pain and discomfort any longer and they had to yell “mercy” to be…

#UULent Day 35, March 31, 2020 (Day 17 of social isolation): Rain. As the grass crunches under my feet, I think about the relief the rain would bring to it. Honestly, I don’t love the rainy season. The constant damp tends to bring me down more than the constant dry. The constant damp annoys me…

Dear Ones, We are about a week and a half into self isolation. Maybe it seems longer than that. Perhaps you’re a bit stir crazy. Or perhaps you’ve been working overtime and are feeling exhausted. Maybe the kids are getting restless and can’t really understand the depths of what is happening, and you’re trying to…