Growing our leadership and advocacy for immigrant justice

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Together, we will walk a trail used by people migrating with volunteers with No More Deaths, a ministry of the UU Church of Tucson. We will witness the militarization of the border itself, observe “Operation Streamline” hearings designed to criminalize immigrants, and travel into Mexico to visit with people who have been recently deported and hear their stories. We will worship together, and help each other discern how our ministries and our movement can respond to the need for immigrant justice within broader movements to end the criminalization of communities of Color.

http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/ourstories/2015/8/21/growing-our-leadership-and-advocacy-for-immigrant-justice-join-a-border-trip

~Namaste,

Cricket

Praying for Refuge

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As we hear news of tragedies facing refugees, asylees, and immigrants around the world, we offer this prayer and hold all those suffering in our hearts. “May your grief and loss be assuaged. May the hard road you travel include spaces of rest and security. May you know your inherent worth and dignity every day of the journey.” Read the full prayer on WorshipWeb

with a heavy yet hopeful heart,

Cricket

The path

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I was talking with a close friend who said he had been failing at spirituality for a while. This confuses me. You cannot fail at spirituality. Sometimes you take a different loop in the path, sometimes you take a rest from your journey, and sometimes you can be lost, but you can never fail. Spirituality is a journey where we get chances to relearn and to grow more all the time. Spirituality is not a destination.

~Namaste
Cricket

How to deal with other’s sadness?

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Too many times we jump to solving the problem when the other person just needs to vent. Sometimes we inadvertently invalidate the feelings of others because we are too busy trying to find solutions instead of giving them comfort.  This picture is a cute and helpful reminder for how we should approach situations like this. This is respecting the dignity of others.

~Namaste,
Cricket

10 years since Hurricane Katrina

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From the archives: Ten years ago this week, we launched uuworld.org as a weekly web magazine, with plans to publish one news story a week—just in time to cover the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the response of Unitarian Universalists to that complex catastrophe. (Reporter Donald Skinner filed 14 hurricane-aftermath stories in our first three months!) Revisit our coverage here; the link takes you to our earliest stories. We’ll publish an update to mark the tenth anniversary soon.

https://www.uuworld.org/hashtag/hurricane-katrina?page=4

Namaste,

Cricket