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Have you looked up at the stars recently? Hey Universe! I see you From atomic dust to star dust You exist And I exist in and through you This I do not doubt From eagle’s view to mouse What do you see? Am I mere food For thought? Does my existence Bear meaning? For you? … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
The Theme of the Month for October is Intention, which may come as a surprise to you because I, ironically, unintentionally forgot to tell you. Ah, the gap between intent and outcome, the valley where we, all too often, lose all sorts of hope. In that valley of lost hope is the mundane intent to … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
The Dory Fish and Stressful Times: By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe By: Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe Have you noticed that you forget things more now than you remember doing before? Or perhaps you have communicated events and decisions in your congregations or communities, and folks insist they have never heard it before? I am sure you can think … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
I have what I call “red light” days. They arrive with a series of red lights on streets that I think should be sequenced with green lights (to help the flow of traffic and aid my travel). With those stop-go red lights, comes a series of small but annoying events: I drop things, I walk … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
Introducing A New Pledging Process Intended to Make Your Life Easier (Yes, Really!) As the leaves begin to fall, your Stewardship Committee is focused on planting seeds for the future. As the doors of our church continue to open wider and we continue our return to meeting in person as well as via Zoom, we’re … Continue reading First Unitarian 2023 Stewardship Campaign – Growing Our Garden Together
RUaUU? Orientation Toward Membership at First Unitarian Church- 9/10/22Are you considering becoming a member of the congregation and want to find out more about what that means? How do people of diverse beliefs become part of one congregation? Enjoy a morning of exploration about your own spiritual and religious orientation and the workings of the … Continue reading RUaUU? Orientation Toward Membership at First Unitarian Church
The September 14th meeting of the Men’s group will be from 7:30 to 9:00. It will be an – IN-PERSON meeting in our usual spot – The Priestly Room. Our leader will be a guest – Sonia Wellington – who will lead a discussion interested in gathering our thoughts on the 8th Principe. I know … Continue reading Men’s Group
Each season offers opportunities to choose what we do with our energy along a spectrum of “doing” and “being.” We can engage in a constant and unrelenting level of activity and hectic doing, or we can do a full stop and be in our skin, reclaiming our bodies, time, and space. Most of us swing … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 10 am – 12 pm via Zoom: Register here The pressing issue of food inequality and insecurity and how it relates to race and ethnicity is of importance to UUs. Hunger and the ability to purchase/obtain food — especially nutritious food — affects many segments of our society, but especially persons of … Continue reading Exploring Food Inequality and Insecurity as They Relate to Race
Our culture can get obsessed with boxes, with little reflection on the value of what is in the box. Office supply stores, “Big Box” stores, moving companies, and home décor stores all seem to focus on the container, with little emphasis on the contents. Yet, it’s what is in the box that has the real … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections Message
“Here is a mystery: If sweeping through the door of my heart there moves continually a genuine love for you, it bypasses all your hate and all your indifference and gets through to you at your center. You are powerless to do anything about it. You may keep alive in devious ways the fires of … Continue reading Pastoral Care and Connections
