Readying the Soil for the Seeds of Transformation

Poet Yehuda Amichi writes, “From the place where we are right, flowers will never grow in the spring. The place where you are right is hard and trampled like a yard.” Before we can plant the seeds of a more loving and just world, we will need to till the soil of our hearts and communities so that our seeds can take root and grow. Many of us love to be “right,” but insisting on our own righteousness usually comes at the right time cost of being an effective force for change. Our ability to cultivate the fruit of transformation may depend on the degree to which we can take pluralism seriously and “embrace our differences and commonalities with Love, curiosity, and respect.”

 

Our guest speaker will be Meleah Houseknecht. Meleah is following her call to Unitarian Universalist ministry and will soon begin her fourth and final year at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. A lifelong UU, before seminary she spent more than two decades organizing and engaging stakeholders in environmental policy development and implementation. She holds a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment and was a part of the 2019–20 cohort of the Humphrey Policy Fellows. Meleah serves as a trustee for Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice and as an active member of First Universalist Church of Minneapolis.

2024.0707 OOS – Readying the Soil for the Seeds of Transformation

 

Join us after the service for an in-person hospitality downstairs in the Fellowship Hall.  Children’s programs (Nursery and Children’s Chapel) are up and running.

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