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In 1961 the Unitarians and Universalist merged to create Unitarian Universalism, a non-creedal, covenant based religion. Although this merger took place before my birth I lived most of my life knowing nothing about this new religion. I had always been drawn to spirituality and the idea of community that I saw in my friends churches … Continue reading Discovering UU
I have a tumultuous relationship with hope. I remember vividly the time when a friend had left the spiritual community (the ashram) that we had lived in together. For all its amazing and joyful components, the ashram was also a hard place to live at times. We worked 6 1/2 days a week for a … Continue reading Choosing Hope?
Buddhist author and teacher, Pema Chödrön wrote, “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Her words are at the heart … Continue reading Cultivating Compassion
Author Toko-Pa Turner wrote: “Our longing for community is so powerful that it can drive us to join groups, relationships, or systems of belief that give a false impression of belonging. These places of false belonging grant us conditional membership, requiring us to cut parts of ourselves off in order to fit in.” How true! … Continue reading Fitting In or Belonging?
Imagine if you were to take each of the minutes you lived in any given day and put them in one of two columns – one for those minutes where you were present in the reality of the moment and the others in a column for those moments where you were lost in your imagination … Continue reading Imagine…..
Taking ourselves too seriously is one of the great sorrows of our lives. Yes, intense, sad, unjust things are happening all the time, but the spirit loves to be lightened and humor is one of the greatest ways to do it. Studies show that humor heals and can sooth our stress – ask Dr. Patch … Continue reading Minister’s Musings on Joy
After experiencing some time down with illness the past few weeks and knowing we were entering the month to explore the practice of trust, I found myself frequently asking: “what does trust in a situation like this even mean”? Did I “trust” that I would get well? Yes, and yet … And yet, as I … Continue reading In This I Trust
It is a phrase I find myself repeating often. “Every voice matters.” Now I know what you may be thinking right now. Does every voice matter? Well ok, that’s a fair question when we consider the loud, often violent and harmful voices that are on the main stage of politics right now. For the sake … Continue reading Every Voice Matters
With the recent passing of President Jimmy Carter I have been thinking a lot about the stories that we tell about each other. While watching a documentary about President Carter I was reminded that even former Presidents have little control over these narratives and it made we wonder, can a story ever really be fully … Continue reading The Rest of the Story….
I am quite sure that, like most children, I spent most of my earliest years living in a wonderful state of presence. In fact, watching my now 1 year old granddaughter live her life I am reminded how young children possess an incredible ability to not only be present in the moment but to allow … Continue reading The Myth of When-Then
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