We are wrapping up the month of Nurturing Beauty and onto June – the month of Celebrating Blessings. The theme feels appropriate to me, because in the next week or two, our baby Aedan is expected to emerge from me. It truly is bittersweet that it is my last week at UUFM before my maternity leave! How fortunate … Continue reading CFD Director’s Message 5.24.22
Dear Ones, May is winding down, and the shifted schedule of summer is upon us. I look forward to seeing all of you in June, before my own departure for vacation, General Assembly, and study leave. We celebrate our own beautiful diversity at our Flower Communion/New Members on June 5, Radical Welcome with Queer activist … Continue reading May 24, 2022 Minister’s Message
Dear Ones, My family continues to feel the horrible effects of the killing in Buffalo, NY of innocents, targeted because of the hatred and violence of white supremacy. Our friends of color suffer more profoundly than we do, and they need our loving response and action. My daughter, Helen Lowry, wrote this on her Facebook … Continue reading May 18, 2022 Minister’s Message
“What if we tuned in to the detail of a leaf or the mood of the forest after a rain as closely as we notice our own shortcomings?” -Chelan Harkin Following worship this past week, I finally returned to my yoga mat and found myself reflecting on the week’s theme: the beauty found in the diversity of bodies. Pregnancy has … Continue reading CFD Director’s Message 5.18.22
Dear Ones, I am thrilled for the bursting greens on so many of the trees, for the dandelions and hostas and lilies and more poking out of the brown leaves still covering my flowerbeds. This is the beauty to which I turn to escape the anxiety I place upon myself when I watch too much … Continue reading May 11, 2022 Minister’s Message
“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don’t need someone to share it with or tell it to.” Toni Morrison I am wishing you much presence and awe as … Continue reading CFD Director’s Message 5.11.22
My brother-in-law died unexpectedly last Wednesday. He was my sister’s husband, only 63 years old. I was present for it. An entirely ordinary and entirely devastating event. Death is our birthright, whether we wish it or not, and yet it is a horrible shock. And we say—he was too young. And we say—he had so … Continue reading May 4, 2022 Minister’s Message
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou May is the month of Nurturing Beauty and may or may not be the month in which a baby emerges from me! While we opted out of gathering for a baby shower this past Saturday, a lot of people came through and dropped … Continue reading CFD Director’s Message 5.4.22
Today, I leave you with these words as a short conclusion to the month of Awakening: “Moments of hearing for the first time; you never know what may cause them. The sight of the Atlantic Ocean can do it, or a piece of music, or a face you’ve never seen before. A pair of somebody’s old … Continue reading CFD Director’s Message 4.27.22
Last Sunday, our service focused on working to design our society with life, rather than humans, at the center. Rather than thinking of our own human interests as the most important factor, what might the world look like if all of life, of life thriving and continuing, including but not limited to human life, were … Continue reading April 27, 2022 Minister’s Message
