The more you can free yourself from your internalization of the gaze of others, the more liberated you feel. As you bring more humor to issues of the body’s appearance, the more you will unleash the healthy energies of the mind.
Under Your Skin: A Thai forest monk explains why a healthy body image is not what you think it is.
We will be discussing the ideas in this article; reading it beforehand is optional, but helpful.
Prelude Galileo – Indigo Girls
Welcome The beauty of the whole – Meg Barnhouse
We gather to worship, our hearts alive with hope that here we will be truly seen, that here we will be welcomed into the garden of this community, where the simple and the elegant, the fluted and frilled, the shy and the dramatic complement one another and are treasured. May we know that here, each contributes in their way to the beauty of the whole. Come, let us worship together, all genders, sexualities, politics, clappers and non-clappers, progressive or conservative, may we root ourselves in the values of this faith: compassion and courage, transcendence, justice and transformation.
Chalice lighting In memory of all the flames – Amarette Callaway
In memory of all the flames that didn’t die—
in the midst of darkness,
in spite of the darkness,
we light this flame today.
“The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not overcome it.” (John 1:5 NRSV)
If you happened to yesterday morning’s service.
Here’s a link to the full service
We have Spiritual Outings on the third Sunday during the summer. This month, we will gather at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center in French Creek at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and a walk around the elk, bison, wolves, and other animals. The trail and restrooms are wheelchair-accessible.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
We would love to have you come worship with us.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
http://www.uua.org/worship/words/opening/your-body-welcome-here
With all of the body shaming and bathroom wars, sometimes we need to take a moment to step back and remember that that we are who we are and we are loved.
Namaste,
Cricket
Venue change for West Fork UUs on Sunday, May 1, 2016.
Because of a scheduling problem we will be meeting at Lisa and Robert’s house on Sunday, May 1. If you plan to attend and do not know the address, please email us at westforkuu@gmail.com for directions.
Note: Venue change. We will be meeting at Lisa and Robert’s house. Email us at westforkuu@gmail.com for directions.
International Labour Day 2016,
May Day, the first day of the month of May is celebrated all over the world with utmost importance. The day is also known as the International Worker’s Day which has a historic significance. The first day of the month of May is also a day of political protests. May Day is otherwise observed as a saint’s feast day or a day for organized labor. In many countries, it is a public holiday.
Service leader John Hall
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. Please note: This Sunday we will meet on the second floor. There are classes for children and adults 10 to 10:45 am, and a coffee gathering before the service. More about us.
Children are welcome. There is childcare and an activity for young children during the service.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
The schedule for the current adult religious education class is here.
Email westforkuu@gmail.com or use our contact form for more information
or write to us at PO Box 523, Clarksburg WV 26302
If you weren’t able to be here this Sunday, the words and music are all here:
http://religionnews.com/2016/04/19/michigan-mosque-takes-in-homeless-unitarian-church/
This is a beautiful story about working together. This is what community is all about.
Namaste,
Cricket
Prelude: Morning Prayer by Hosea Ballou Sung by Second Ireland Sacred Harp Singers
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
