“We hold on to hell because when we discard it we glimpse through the clearing smoke a God who is too complicated for us.” – Robert R Walsh
May the meditation above and this prayer from George Kimmich Beach help you focus on suffering, why we suffer, and how it helps us to sit with it.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Here is an article on curiosity and meditation from Mindfulness Meditation.
Here is a TedTalk from Kevin B. Jones about the importance of curiosity to science and medicine.
Here is a short guided meditaion on increasing curiosity.
May these articles and videos help you focus on curiosity and how it can help you in your search for truth.
Namaste,
Cricket
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May you be able to take some time alone today to focus on you. May you be able to slow down from your busy life to breathe. May this meditation from Paul H. Beattie help you realize the importance of being quiet and alone.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Today is the day of rest. Today is the day to focus on what heals us and makes us feel safe. Today is the day to lift up and celebrate Sanctuary. This article from positive news focuses on the need for sanctuary in our busy lives. I have also shared our church’s mission statement as refuge is a synonym for sanctuary and the lyrics to a song. I hope you find all three benefitial in your search for sanctuary today.
Namaste,
Cricket
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Our Mission
Be a beacon and a refuge for all
Worship joyfully
Grow in spirit
Touch our community
“Make us aware we
are a sanctuary
Each made holy
loved right through
with thanksgiving
we are a living
sanctuary a-new.” – Christian Praise Song with words rewritten by one of the UU Churches in Boston.
I hope that you are able to get out in the world today and wonder at it and everything in it.
“Like the cosmic dust following after a great Perseid meteor, we are the living remnants of time and all that has come to pass in its wake—briefly shining lights on the way to eternity. We are only visible to the naked eye for an instant. Take this moment to shine like the start dust you are. May the light of our time on earth shine to bless the world and each other. Shine. Shine. Shine.” by Mary Edes
Namaste,
Cricket
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Prelude: Mango Thoughts in a Meatloaf Town
Rev. Meg Barnhouse, First UU, Austin, Texas
Welcome
Hosea Ballou said “Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise, and profitable improvement of his social feelings.” And so we gather here, not only to practice our religion, but to support each other.
Chalice Lighting Drawn Together – Jennifer Leota Gray
We come together every week bound not by a creed,
Or a mutual desire to please one God or many Gods
Yet we are drawn together by a belief, that how we are in the world,
Who we are together matters.
We light this chalice, together in the knowledge
That love, not fear, can change this world Continue reading
May this reading from Starhawk and the meditation below from Dr. Beth Kurland help you to focus on the strength in and around you.
Namaste,
Cricket
PS: Sorry it is a day late.
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May this article on passion and this meditation help us to explore passion and how to ignite it in our spirits.
Namaste,
Cricket
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We have all heard that “play is the work of childhood” and have read or seen many things about how important play is for children. This article from NPR discusses how it is also important for the rest of us.
May this guide you in your thoughts today. May you find new ways to play.
Namste,
Cricket
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