What if going to church is an act of intention? Living as if we were interconnected to each other and all life is not easy in a culture that tells us individual wants are paramount. We have to be intentional, and being part of a UU congregation helps us do that.
If you haven’t received an invitation to reserve a seat for this service, please contact us at admin@WHUUF.org. “Christmas in Song and Story” ~ Rev. Tracy Springberry (in-person, live stream, and recorded) We will tell the old story and sing the old songs and bring in Christmas with Silent Night.
Saint Francis of Assisi wrote, For it is in giving that we receive. In the pressure of consumerism to give perfect gifts during the holiday season, sometimes it is easy to lose the way that giving is what opens us to joy and connection.
Joy is a natural feeling for all mammals and adds to the richness of our lives, but sometimes we get blocked and can’t feel it at all. What blocks joy and how can we free it?
The stories so many of us learned in history class such as Thanksgiving and Christopher Columbus can keep us confused about what is really going on.
Mostly we don’t think that God is something with a history. Instead, God is something to believe in or not—or, perhaps, it is a concept to argue. The reasons we have those reactions to the idea of God are historical and worth reflecting on.
This is the story of Unitarian Universalists’ ongoing quest to be more loving.
Today we will consider our relationship to our ancestors and beloved dead. Those relationships don’t die as long as we are alive, and can enrich our lives.
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.
