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UU Lent 2022 – Day 30 – Water

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“Water unites us. All water is one water, shape-shifting as it goes on and on in its unending cycle. The stream we gather by unites us with all the waters of the world, for all of life depends on water.
That’s why this common, everyday element on which our very lives depend is sacred.
In our thankfulness for water, let us remember to honor, cherish, and care for it—for our own lives, for all life touched by water, and for those who come after us.” – All Water Is One Water by Mel Hoover, Rose Edington

The Vessel of Compassion: A Water Communion Story by Katie Gelfand

Renewing Faith in Times of Crisis-Management

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“Speaking from a rising generation of clergy and lay leaders who formed their commitments to liberal religion at the end of the optimistic modernist age, she shows how the religious life is not characterized by endless human advancement, but by lurching movement, crisis-management, and pain…” – from After the Good News by Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd

“Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen… Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe’s leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.” – Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Rutger Bregman

UU Lent 2022 – Day 28 – Art

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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Pablo Picasso

“I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.” – Bob Ross

UU Lent 2022 – Day 23 – Foundation

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According to Dictionary.com – Foundation means

  1. the basis or groundwork of anything:
  2. the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  3. the natural or prepared ground or base on which some structure rests.
  4. the lowest division of a building, wall, or the like, usually of masonry and partly or wholly below the surface of the ground.
  5. the act of founding, setting up, establishing, etc.: a policy in effect since the foundation.
  6. the state of being founded.

Our Faith Calls Us to Antiracist Work by Rev. Susan Frederick Gray

Our House by Michael DeVernon Boblett