Hunger is both a physical and spiritual thing. Aisha Ansano describes her thoughts about filling us up at “Dinner Church“.
Bruce Southworth gives thought to spiritual hunger in “In Our Hungering for Meaning
What are some of your favorite ways to combat spiritual hunger? Do any of them translate into ways to combat physical hunger?
The dictionary defines search as “try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly”
Linda M Hansen describes searching in her meditation “May We Seek the True Questions”
Merriam Webster defines courage as mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. The root of the word comes from the Latin “cor” meaning heart. Courage is to me bravery that comes from the heart.
Our reading today is from Marisol Caballero who wrote “Courage requires Vulnerability”
There is a space for you at the table. The UUA is looking for volunteers for our committees, panels, and task forces such as the Board of Trustees, Moderator Search Committee, and Presidential Search Committee. https://bit.ly/2CgtSlI
You will work to carry out the mission of the organization to promote UUism in creating more beloved community for all.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa
Partnership is more than friendship. It is not just being there for someone. Being a partner means working alongside them. Being a partner means holding each other accountable.
Transgender Religious Professional UUs Together (known as TRUUsT) has created a Call to Action because “In the wake of recent events and the Trump administration’s continued assault on trans lives, TRUUsT calls on Unitarian Universalists everywhere to take immediate action to live out the above truths and directly support trans UUs. Unitarian Universalism’s commitment to trans lives is all too often aspirational rather than true today. According to a recent survey, only 28% of trans UUs feel that their congregation is fully inclusive of them as trans people. We need this to change, because trans lives are at stake.”
As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to be better partners. As Rev. Theresa I. Soto states “All of us Need all of us to Make It.” This responsive reading co-written by Rev. Megan Foley highlights this.
“True atonement isn’t the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.” – Ben Dolnick
This Sunday Cricket will explore atonement as a spiritual practice.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Our services are Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Progressive Women’s Association Event Center, 305 Washington Ave. in downtown Clarksburg, behind the Courthouse. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Classes and worship are replaced by Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer, with brief worship, a potluck picnic, and outdoor activities. The schedule is in the sidebar.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
The dictionary defines acceptance as a) the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable, typically to be admitted into a group and b) the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered.
“There’s my Temple” is an affirmation about acceptance from Ma Theresa Gustilo Gallardo.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
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“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Fablehaven
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Antigone
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― The Hate U Give
Here is “A Blessing for Risk-Takers and Failures” by Robin Tanner
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