Hope is never constant. It is shaped from the pieces of our lives and of our shared interdependent existence. And sometimes it is shattered, and we reshape those pieces into something new. 2025.1214 OOS – Hope in Pieces Children’s programs (Nursery and Children’s Chapel) are up and running. Click this link to join the service: https://zoom.us/j/99358411229?pwd=eGU2RUNiS0lFNjdyZlFMOVZITEhCdz09. … Continue reading Hope in Pieces
Reverend Doege’s sermon for February 9, posits that what comes to define our generations (late boomer, gen X, perhaps millennials) for future generations will be the extent to which we are able to choose hope over despair. The Reverend Lisa Doege has been minister at Nora Unitarian Universalist Church in Hanska since 2009. She … Continue reading Whence Springs Hope?
It has been said that It takes a village to raise a child. The UUFM has been that village for our family. We will share what this has meant for us on our journey through foster care to adoption. Soul Matters Monthly Theme: What does it mean to be a community of ABUNDANCE?
How might we approach global climate change with curiosity rather than fear or resignation? Living with, in the words of Joanne Macy, “Active Hope” may provide an antidote to both our despair about global climate change and our arrogance to believe our despair is a sufficient response. In the mind of the beginner there are many … Continue reading Curiosity Might Save the Planet and Our Lives
The advent of the new year brings with it the dreaded “New Year Resolution.” And making a new year resolution so often brings us into a place of lack and fault-finding. How about this year, instead, we take a leap and open ourselves up to epiphany, to the possibility that our lives might unfold in … Continue reading New Possibilities
Mother’s Day is a day that we celebrate those people in our lives who have given us life. Lisa Myers, United Theological Seminary, will take us on an exploration of the idea of “Mothering” within the emergence of New Life. Lisa Myers is in her third year at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, … Continue reading Mother’s Day – What is a Mother?
Most of us are eager to be known by and to know others, to be perceived as we are and as we might become. We’ll explore today how differences, affinities, and especially opportunities for synergy bring us together and enable us to grow in relationship. April Theme: Transformation
So, after almost nine months, with a lot of effort (made easier by the great story we can tell about ourselves), we’ve actually done it-we looked for a minister who would be the best partner for us as we grow still further in nourishing our spirits, broadening our minds, nurturing the earth, and building our … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of a New Minister
The ancient story of Easter still speaks to us today — new beginnings emerge with fresh possibilities, even in those moments when it seems that all is tragically lost. As Unitarian Universalists, how do we honor the wondrous power of resurrection and renewal in our lives and in our world? How do we answer the … Continue reading Practice Resurrection
When God created human beings,” wrote the Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, “we were given a secret, and that secret was not how to begin — for that prerogative is God’s alone — but how to begin again.” The spiritual practice of perseverance involves starting over and over again in the face of adversity, opposition, and … Continue reading In The Beginning (Again)
