What a beautiful way! To widen the circle of loving and compassionate inclusion—all identities, all beingness, all sexualities. Can we begin our practice by including ourselves, our entire selves, with all of our beauty marks, idiosyncrasies, and growing edges? Have we the loving fortitude both to be and to become, held in the care of … Continue reading Love the One You’re With
Side with Love Sunday from our UUA. Rev. Rita opens worship this day before moving to a recorded service created by ministers and lay leaders across our denomination for an exploration of what love calls us to do in this world Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The … Continue reading Side with Love Sunday
Join Rev. Rita, who will be preaching on “When Compassion is More Than ‘Thoughts and Prayers’” The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship 10:30 am Followed by Virtual Coffee Hour Every Sunday Gathering begins at 10:10 am. Join Zoom Video Meeting by clicking https://zoom.us/j/340634083 ; or by opening your Zoom icon and … Continue reading When Compassion is More Than “Thoughts and Prayers”
Many of us have played that children’s game “One of These Things is not Like the Others,” a game that invites us to find the common thing and to exclude that which seems not to belong. Imagine that as a next step, we moved from attention to difference toward new categories, ones that seek relationship … Continue reading Our Differences Lending Strength to What We Share In Common
This service at the beginning of the school year is dedicated to the teachers and others who work with children. They are especially important if a child’s homelife is less than desired. Research shows that children who do well in spite of disadvantaged childhoods or dysfunctional parents were able to connect with at least one other adult … Continue reading Creating Ourselves
There are times when the only place you can turn for sanctuary is within. What are the spiritual practices that enable us to build our inner life strong and secure so that we may better live lives of compassion and justice? Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. -Joseph Campbell … Continue reading Inner Sanctum
