Cultivating a Relationship with Uncertainty
Humans prefer pain to uncertainty, but as the world has informed us over the last couple of years, we are not in charge, and all is uncertain. How to live fully into that reality?
Humans prefer pain to uncertainty, but as the world has informed us over the last couple of years, we are not in charge, and all is uncertain. How to live fully into that reality?
Our theme this month is cultivating relationship. One of the ways to cultivate relationship is to embrace the possibilities we see in each other.
Atonement, offering repair when we have harmed others or acted against our fundamental values, is part of all the Abrahamic religions. Jews celebrate Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, this week. What might Unitarian Universalists learn from these traditions?
Embracing the possibilities of being in a community of faith and love.
Birds love to play in air currents and otters relish the water. Mammals enjoy the sensation of being alive. Enjoying life is our birthright.
Surprise can be utterly delightful or devastating. What makes something a surprise? How do surprises wake us up? Cleone and Stuart Hawkinson choose this topic when they bought the minister’s sermon in the auction last year.
Juneteenth, PRIDE Sunday, and Father’s Day. Let us Dream and Play.
We all tell a story about our life. What happens when we change the story?
We all tell a story about our life. What happens when we change the story?
Unitarian Universalists are considering adding an 8th principle that would ask us to build diverse multicultural Beloved community by dismantling racism and other oppressions. This morning we will learn more about the principle.
After a lying dormant through a long winter and COVID year, we are becoming alive. This is a celebration of life.
It has been a year since WHUUF stopped meeting in person and most of vastly curtailed social gatherings. We committed as a community to our physical safety and the safety of others. Those commitments have changed us in ways explored and unexplored, in ways we know and don’t yet know, in ways we will forever … Continue reading What a Year!
What do we devote our lives to? Often we don’t give this much thought. The culture chooses. Our family chooses. Our circumstances choose. However, what we devote ourselves to, what we commit to, is who we are. Our commitments matter.
Beloved community is a practice of love and its a challenging one. We need communities of people who are dedicated to it.
We have a new president. Many of us have been dreaming about all the possibilities this creates for months or years. How do we build the world we’ve been dreaming about?
When we talk about racial justice, so often we talk about stopping harm. This is critical, but it also seems like sometimes we just need to imagine what it means to be free.
Joyful service about beginnings and why imagination matters, and why we need it in our lives.
We will celebrate Christmas Eve with the traditional stories and songs.
Out of the stillness of the dark, comes light and miracles and hope.