Here is a sermon from Rev. Elizabeth A. Lerner titled “Mistakes I Wish I had Made”. I hope this helps us all think about mistakes in new and different ways.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Coming Soon: Andrew McKnight
Keep your eyes peeled for more details, but on Sunday April 9th we will be hosting Andrew McKnight for our Sunday morning service.
Here is a short biography of Andrew and more can be found on his website.
Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, award-winning folk/Americana artist Andrew McKnight’s musical journey has traced nearly a million miles of blue highways, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fans for his captivating performances and seven recordings. Andrew’s powerful and entertaining show is like one man theatre, delivered with warmth and down-home comfort. His finely crafted songs are woven together with humorous stories and poetic drama, while the musical soundscape traverses influences from Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, rustic folk, and even a little fancy flatpicking on a Carter Family tune. While his skillful guitar work provides a tasteful foundation, the touches of native American cedar flute, resonator guitar, djembe (African hand drum) and even mandolin add delightful and mesmerizing embellishments to the show.
Andrew has performed at many prestigious venues like the Kennedy Center, the International Storytelling Center and the Atlanta Olympics, has been part of the Rocky Mountain, South Florida, Boston and Delmarva Folk Festival lineups, and a guest on NPR’s “Art of the Song” and “River City Folk” shows.
Andrew will be sharing his service “Beyond Borders” with us.
We hope you can attend.
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.
Adult religious education, at 10, will be a discussion on applying our beliefs to current events.
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 April 2, 2017
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas A. Edison
This Sunday, John Hall will be discussing the first principle with his lesson “Measuring up: What is Worthy?”
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.
Adult religious education, at 10, will be a discussion on applying our beliefs to current events.
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
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Namaste
Cricket
Meditation on Beauty
May these stories by Christopher Buice, “The Beauty Contest” and “The Beautiful Tiger, help us all to see past reflections and ideals to see real beauty.
Also, The closing hymn, blessing, and musical blessing at Sunday service on April 3, 2011. The hymn is “For The Beauty Of The Earth,” performed by the UU St. Pete Adult Choir and Handbell Ringers. Rev. Alec Craig.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Meditation on Dreams
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Source: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Random House Inc., 1990)
The Dream we haven’t Dared to Dream by Dan Pallotta
May listening to the podcast from TED2016 and meditating on the poem by Langston Hughes help you focus on what it means to dream, what your dreams are, what our dreams are, and what dreams you have left behind.
Namaste,
Cricket
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We missed you …
If you could not make it this morning, the full service can be found here.
Have a Blessed day.
Namaste,
Cricket
Meditation on Mercy
What does mercy mean to you? How can we be merciful in our daily lives? Who do we need to give mercy to? Who do we need mercy from?
Namaste,
Cricket
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Meditation on Blessing
What does is mean to be blessed? What does it mean to be a blessing? What does blessing mean?
May this prayer from Andrea Hawkins-Kamper help us all think about blessings, how we are blessings, how we are blessed, and how we can bless others.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Meditation on Ally
In November of 2013, Jamie Utt wrote an article for Everyday Feminism called “So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All ‘Allies’ Need to Know” as an affirmative response to Mia Mckenzie’s September 2013 article on BGD called “No More ‘Allies'”. Both articles are reviews of the word ally and what it means in out culture today.
Here is the definition according to dictionary.com:
1. to unite formally, as by treaty, league, marriage, or the like (usuallyfollowed by with or to):
2. to associate or connect by some mutual relationship, as resemblanceor friendship.
4. a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others forsome common cause or purpose:
5. Biology. a plant, animal, or other organism bearing an evolutionaryrelationship to another, often as a member of the same family:
6. a person who associates or cooperates with another; supporter.
I hope that these will help us all work out what it means to be an ally.
Namaste,
Cricket
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PS: I really like this song by Rev. Meg Barnhouse and I think it speaks to this as well.
Meditation on Engagement
Definition of Engagement according to dictionary.com:
2. an appointment or arrangement:
3. betrothal:
4. a pledge; an obligation or agreement:
5. employment, or a period or post of employment, especially in theperforming arts:
6. an encounter, conflict, or battle:
7. Mechanics. the act or state of interlocking.
This TEDTalk from Dave Meslin is titled “The Antidote to Apathy”. Here is a time for all ages by Maryah Converse.
May focusing on the definition of engagement, listening to the TEDTalk, and reading the time for all ages help us all to zoom in on what we need to do in our lives and how we can engage in the world around us.
Namaste,
Cricket
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