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A long time ago, there was a woman named Kisa Gotami who lived in a small village. She had a baby boy who she loved more than anything in the world. She held him close every day, sang him songs, and dreamed of watching him grow up. But one day, her baby got very sick, … Continue reading The Mustard Seed: A Story About Compassion
A long time ago, in the 1970s, there was a kind and curious woman named Lucile Shuck Longview. She was a Unitarian Universalist and loved her UU church in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1975, Lucile got to travel to Mexico City as a UU delegate to be part of the United Nations “Women’s Year” assembly. This … Continue reading TouchPoints September Wisdom Tale: The First UU Water Communion
When I ran support circles for metastatic cancer patients, we had a practice of affirming anyone who shared something challenging by simply saying together: We see you. We hear you. You are held. You are loved. Those affirmations helped the person to feel grounded enough to come a little bit more present to whatever difficult … Continue reading I Am Here
One of the key practices of repair we can all improve on is making clean apologies. Often when we’ve caused harm, even unintentionally, a rupture is created in our relationship with another person. In dominant culture it’s pretty common to just keep going and ignore those small ruptures. But if little harms keep piling up … Continue reading The Spiritual Practice of Apology
It sounds obvious, but one of the simplest ways to improve our active listening is to focus less on what we want to say and more on what the other person is saying. Here are a few strategies to help you with this simple-but-not-always-easy practice: Slow down the pace of your speaking a bit. Get … Continue reading Asking “Listening” Questions
September’s Spiritual Practice Offering from Your Director of Spiritual Development There’s a Hebrew word that appears 74 different times in the Bible that doesn’t have a clear English translation: Selah. It’s a pointer to the spiritual concept of taking a pause and just allowing things to be as they are. Sometimes that pause is indicated … Continue reading Pressing the Pause Button
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