Controlling Chaos by Barbara Merritt
Have a blessed day
~Namaste
Cricket
Author: CZ
Be Prepared to Be Inspired
If you ever get the feeling that there’s something you can’t do, you probably ought to watch this video! John Bramblitt is an artist from Texas who is producing some amazing paintings — and he can’t even see them. #Inspired! Here is another more in depth video
I hope this brings inspiration and hope to your day.
~Namaste
Cricket
Garden
~Namaste
Cricket
Have a Blessed Lammas/Lughnasadh
Lammas is a pagan holiday of the harvest. It is a time of community and joy and gratefulness.
It is also known by the name Lughnasadh.
Have a Blessed Day.
~Namaste
Cricket
Sunday August 2, 2015
Join us on Sunday, 2 August, for a celebration of the summer at Audra State Park — pot-luck picnic, hiking, and perhaps swimming in the Middle Fork River. We will have a small discussion/devotional about looking for guidance and wisdom led by Cricket.
The Middle Fork River at Audra State Park
We will meet in the picnic area at eleven.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com for more information or to carpool.
Directions to Audra State Park:
(http://www.audrastatepark.com/)
From Rte. 33.
Turn on Talbot Road. At the first Y, stay left. At the next intersection, turn left and travel approximately six miles. You will reach Audra State Park. This route is approximately 13 miles from Rte. 33.
From Belington
At the only stoplight in town, turn on to Audra State Park Road and stay straight. This route is approximately 10 miles from Belington.
South on Interstate 79
Take Exit 115 (Stonewood/Nutter Fort exit).
If traveling south on interstate 79, take exit 115 (Stonewood/Nutter Fort exit). Make a left on to Rte. 20 south. After 4 miles, you will need to make a right to stay on Rte. 20 south. Stay on Rte. 20 for approximately 10 miles. Then make a left on to Rte. 119 north. Follow Rte. 119 north for approximately five miles. Turn right on to Audra State Park Road. Follow for six miles until you arrive at Audra State Park.
Hope to see you there.
~Namaste
Cricket
Taking Care of our World
There is a difference between environmentalism and environmental justice. Check out this video from Alex Kapitan, the UUA’s Commit2Respond
What is Commit2Respond?
Commit2Respond is a coalition of Unitarian Universalists and other people of faith and conscience working for climate justice.
Unitarian Universalists and other people of faith and conscience have been on the frontlines of environmental justice for decades. United in collective action, connected through partnership, we will change the world.
We are diverse in spiritual belief, yet united in faith that a better world is possible and that our collective power can create change.
~Namaste
Cricket
Media roundup: UU family raises a ‘truegender’ daughter
Unitarian Universalists were in the media last week honoring their daughter’s “truegender,” fighting for comprehensive sexuality education, and hosting community book discussions in response to recent tragic events fueled by racist hatred. Read the article
This is part of who we are.This is following our principles.
~Namaste
Cricket
Common Reads aren’t just for Colleges anymore
A Common Read invites participants to read and discuss the same book in a given period of time. A Common Read can build community in our congregations and our movement by giving diverse people a shared experience, shared language, and a basis for deep, meaningful conversations. The Unitarian Universalist Association has a special committee to help chose the common read for the year: This year’s book.
I personally am looking forward to reading this book. What do you think?
~Namaste
Cricket
Gratitude
Gratitude by Max Kapp
Often I have felt that I must praise my world
For what my eyes and ears have seen these many years,
And what my heart has loved.
And often I have tried to start my lines:
“Dear earth,” I say,
And then I pause
To look once more.
Soon I am bemused
And far away in wonder.
So I never get beyond “Dear Earth.”
Source: Kathleen Montgomery, ed. Day of Promise: Collected Meditations, Vol. 1 (Skinner House Books, 2001).
Coloring Meditation
Earlier this week, we posted about the importance of play. Coloring is an important part of play. I just colored this mandala with the colorfy app. It was very soothing.
So I found an article by Rev. Dr. Cynthia Landrum titled Chalices, Doodling, and Meditation about her spiritual practice of coloring and drawing. Here is a quote: ” Spiritual practice is still not an everyday thing for me, but during the last year I’ve made one hundred Zentangle chalices. I find it remarkable that restricting the format—always a chalice, and always in a box or in a mandala—doesn’t make me feel that my creativity is restricted.”
Hope you enjoy.
~Namaste
Cricket
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