UU Lent 2019 – Day 29 – Suffering

April 4, 2019CZ

“The Edge” by David O Rankin

UU Lent 2019 – Day 28 – Sacred

April 3, 2019CZ

Here are two small meditations to get your juices flowing about what is sacred and what it means. “The Sacred” by Rev. Abhi Janamanchi and “We Make it Holy” by Kelly Weisman Asprooth-Jackson.

UU Lent 2019 – Day 27 – Wisdom

April 2, 2019April 3, 2019CZ

Funny for today

Here is a sermon “How Wisdom Comes” from Rev. Jay E Abernathy, Jr.

UU Lent 2019 – Day 26 – Gratitude

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019CZ

The dictionary defines gratitude as the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Here are 14 Creative Ways to Practice Gratitude By Shannon Kaiser

What are you grateful for?

UU Lent 2019 – Day 25 – Mercy

March 31, 2019CZ

Merriam Webster defines mercy as compassion or forbearanc; lenient or compassionate treatment; a blessing that is an act of divine favor or compassion; a fortunate circumstance; or compassionate treatment of those in distress.

In “Seeking Mercy, Seeking Home” Rev. Erika A. Hewitt discusses immigration and mercy.

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UU Lent – 24 – Blessing

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BE THE BLESSING YOU ALREADY ARE

By John Gibb Millspaugh, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh

Service Leader: In our religious tradition, it is not just ministers and religious professionals who have power to bless. Each of us has the power to bless another, and to bless the world. Therefore I invite everyone here to participate in this blessing. The words are ordinary words, but we make the blessing real through our shared intention.

[Invite congregants form physical connections, hand-to-hand or hand-to-shoulder, throughout the congregation.]

All: As we have been blessed, so we bless one another to be a blessing. Breathe in, breathe out, this breath we share with all that breathes. Feel the love of the universe flowing through this community, into you, and out into the universe again. Let the love of all the universe—your love—flow outward, to its height, its depth, its broad extent. You are more than you know, and more beloved than you know. Take up what power is yours to create safe haven, to make of earth a heaven. Give hope to those you encounter, that they may know safety from inner and outer harm, be happy and at peace, healthy and strong, caring and joyful. Be the blessing you already are. That is enough. Blessed Be; Amen.

Adapted from the Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sunna Nipata 1.8) of the Pali Canon

UU Lent – Day 23 – Understanding

March 29, 2019March 28, 2019johnnyawwsome

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.

– Sterling K. Brown