For many of us, making and sustaining meaningful and generative relationships is the focus of much of our life energy. Marriages, friendships, mentorships, leaderships, parenthoods all simultaneously nurture us and are nurtured by us in ways that involve negotiating expectations and differences. Some say that in order to remain healthy, relationships are fed and fed by a “third thing”, a common understanding, a covenant, a commitment that holds value and nurturing power like a reservoir even when negotiations break down. This congregation is forming a new relationship with a new minister. What will be the nature of this relationship and how might it be served by “third thing” that you will create together?

 

About our speaker:

Karen Gustafson is Minister Emerita of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth where she served from 1986-2007. After six years as Associate Minister at First Unitarian Society Madison WI she retired and then, restless, she served as Interim Minister for the Michael Servetus Unitarian Society in Fridley. She is currently “retired” in Knife River MN where she enjoys time with her husband, John and various children and grandchildren; consults for the Mid America Region UUA and guides Life Review retreats for UU’s in transition.

Topics: UU Principles