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Author: Robert
Sunday, October 22, 2017: Words of Comfort
Prelude: Somebody Else’s Troubles – Steve Goodman
Welcome: To learn more about being human – Erika A. Hewitt
Welcome to this morning, this day, and this opportunity to be together in community — which is a time of joy, comfort, and sometimes challenges. This Unitarian Universalist congregation is a place where we come to learn more about being human. We’re not here because we’ve figured out life’s questions, or because we think we’ve got it right, or even because we think we know what the questions are.
We come here to learn more about being in relationship together: how to listen, how to forgive, how to be vulnerable, and how to create trust and compassion in one another.
Let us move into worship, willing to be authentic with each other, honest within ourselves, and opening to connection in all its forms.
Come, let us worship together.
Sunday, October 1, 2017: Deegan & Hinkle Lakes Park
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we will gather at Deegan & Hinkle Lakes Park in Bridgeport at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and walking.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
For a map, please click on this link: goo.gl/maps/v33mWw5k3Wm
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, September 3, 2017: French Creek Wildlife Center
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we will gather at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center at French Creek at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and visiting the animals.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Charlottesville, the Soul Sickness in America, and a Call to a Moral Vision
“We met the enemy, and he is us. We met the friend, and he is us. That is the secret that will win the ultimate victory, if anything will. And this is our way. Looking inward, and reaching out a hand and acting. Heart with heart, and hand in hand, we will build a community of hope and possibility.”
Read the full text of James Ishmael Ford’s sermon, “A STATE OF EMERGENCY: Charlottesville, the Soul Sickness in America, and a Call to a Moral Vision”, at Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, Costa Mesa, California:
Sunday, August 13, 2017: Weeding and Not Weeding
Self-Heal
The summer routines of yard maintenance bring us into direct contact with nature, with the living things that inhabit the space around us. Some can bring us great joy, others perhaps less so. And so we must decide when to weed, and when not to weed. These decisions we make are part of our spiritual journey.
Peace, joy, and love,
Robert
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.
Our Religious Education/ Life Long Learning Class will meet at from 10am to 10:45 am with a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
You can park on either side of the PWA building. The lots are marked as private, but are available on Sunday mornings.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, August 6, 2017: Audra State Park
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we will gather at Audra State Park at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and walking or swimming in the Middle Fork River.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, July 30, 2017: Pagan Pride Day
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we also have an additional outing on the last Sunday of the month. We will staff an information booth at the Morgantown Pagan Pride Day at Mason-Dixon Historical Park in Core, West Virginia, from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Our usual pot luck picnic will take place at the booth.
For more information about this event, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1357468580981576, or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pagan-pride-day-morgantown-2017-tickets-33261353604#map-target if you are not on Facebook.
The event opens at 11:00 a.m.
For those who would like to caravan or carpool, we will gather at the Progressive Women’s Association parking lot at 9:30 a.m. Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to join us and need transportation.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Sunday, July 2, 2017: Watters Smith Memorial State Park
We have Spiritual Outings on the first Sunday of each month during the summer. This month, we will gather at Watters Smith Memorial State Park at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and hiking the trails.
We will meet at the Pioneer shelter in the picnic area near the historical area.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
Forgiveness
Return of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
– Miroslav Volf, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Edward Kim on Volf’s Exclusion & Embrace
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