What in Nature are you grateful for?
Here is a meditation by Stephen M Shick.
Month of Gratitude Day 6
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Month of Gratitude Day 5
What sound are you grateful for today?
Sometimes the world is too noisy. Sometimes it is too quiet. Sometimes we need to listen. “Let us Listen” by Laura Evonne Steinman is a meditation to help us do just that.
Month of Gratitude day 4
What food are you thankful for?
Food can be a huge part of church life as Mary Wellemeyer states in her meditation, “Food for the Spirit.”
May your bellies and your spirits remain full.
Month of Gratitude Day 3
What color are you grateful for today?
We don’t always think about the colors that surround us on a daily basis. Andrew M Hill’s “The Rainbow Prayer” asks us to do just that.
Month of Gratitude Day 2
Day 2: What Technology are you grateful for?
Sometimes we can feel weird about technology and wonder if it is good or bad. Anne Welsbacher does just that in her sermon The Tao of Ipod, perhaps it can help us all come to a better relationship with our technology.
Namaste,
Cricket
A month of Gratitude Day 1
In the month of November people tend to focus on gratitude and thankfulness. While this should be a practice all year, Thanksgiving makes November an easy target. This November we are going to do a gratitude challenge. We hope you will join us.
Today’s question is what smell are you grateful for today?
Here is a meditation from Braver/Wiser called Petrichor by Alex Haider-Winnett.
Namaste,
Cricket
Safe Space/Brave Space
From First UU Austin, October 21. The sermon begins at about 29:30 minutes in. The reading at about 22:30.
Meg had asked on Facebook for thoughts on threats and challenges for this service. The sermon Safe Space/Brave Space, how we can make and be sanctuary, is on supporting and challenging each other.
Jesus’ Financial Text of Terror
Here’s a small Biblical light on “Economic Justice” from a Mennonite perspective. In her sermon, “Jesus’ Financial Text of Terror“, Amy Yoder McGloughlin, pastor at Frazer Mennonite Church, Frazer, Pennsylvania, interprets Mark 10:17-31 as a lesson on Capitalism for us all.
— Robert
Here’s what is so problematic about this whole story, and probably why this text is not taken more seriously in Christian circles — In capitalism, redistributive justice is heresy. The justice that cares that all are fed, that all have what they need to live goes against the over-simplistic “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” philosophy of capitalism. But for Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, redestributive justice is the kingdom of God. So those of us who are rich have reason to be concerned by this text. If we take it seriously it has an important challenge for us.
www.storiesfromtheredtent.com/2018/10/17/jesus-financial-text-of-terror/
Trans Faith and Faith Formation
Here is the VUU from 9/27/2018
We chatted live with Rev. Jaelynn Scott, Buddhist minister and UU religious educator, about trans faith and faith formation in Unitarian Universalism.
Rev. Jaelynn Scott is a Buddhist community minister who has served as the Director of Lifelong Learning at Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church. A graduate of Naropa University’s Buddhist Divinity program, she was ordained by Ven.’s Bhante Chao Chu and Tampalawela Dhammaratana, and brings decades of dedicated meditation experience to her ministry.
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Especially for the new members we welcomed Sunday, but also for all of us.
Rev. Meg Barnhouse is currently the minister at First UU, Austin, Texas.
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