Our service this week will be about the pagan sabbat of Samhain. The harvest had ended. Fall has begun. Winter is coming. And yet, this is the time of hope as we connect to our past and look foward to our future .
Namaste,
Cricket
Between our fears for the future and our regrets of the past, we often forget to find joy in the moment. This Sunday we will rejoice, and Lisa deGruyter will talk about spiritual practices for being in the moment.
We would love to have you come celebrate and worship with us. Please join us at the Progressive Women’s Association in downtown Clarksburg, WV at 11 am.
Children are welcome. There will be an activity for children during the service, and a coffee hour afterwards.
The building is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible restroom.
Map (The building is behind the Harrison County courthouse; you can park in the PWA parking on the 2nd Street side or the Chase bank parking on the west side of the building.)
This Sunday Cricket will lead us in a worship service focusing on the words of Audre Lorde and the inspiration found within them as we work to build a more fair and peaceful world.
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 be from 10am to 10:45 am with 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
~
Namaste
Cricket
Image credit Syracuse Cultural Workers
Welcome: To Remind Ourselves What Is Real, By Elena Westbrook
In a world ravaged by violence, by hatred,
by conflicts that seem eternal and insoluble,
sometimes the only thing we can do
is be still for a moment
to remind ourselves what is real:
the sun that rose this morning,
the dirt under our feet,
the air whispering in and out of our lungs.This hour, try just to be present in each moment as it unfolds.
Your simple attention is what makes these moments holy.
Chalice lighting: Embrace The Night, By Jennifer Leota Gray
Universal mystery,
Guide us away from the desire to
Shine light in all the corners.
Teach us to embrace the night,
For without the darkness,
We never see the stars.
Our youth and children will explore journeys in literature and faith. The service will be fun and interactive.
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.
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
~
Namaste
Cricket
Our last Spiritual Outing of the year will be at Riverbend Park otherwise known as the VA Park in Clarksburg. We will be at the Hilltop Shelter at 11am.
Hope to see you there!!
Namaste,
Cricket
We have Spiritual Outings on the third Sunday during the summer. This month, we will gather at the Hilltop Shelter at the Veterans’ Memorial Park in Clarksburg at 11 a.m. for a short service, followed by a potluck picnic, conversation, and walking the trail by the river. The picnic area, trail, and restrooms are wheelchair-accessible.
Please email westforkuu@gmail.com if you would like to carpool.
The Hilltop Shelter is the smallest shelter in the Park, located on the upper parking lot on the left hand side.
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
Cricket Hall will lead us in a service about the 4th Principle which is a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
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 be from 10am to 10:45 am with 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
~
Namaste
Cricket
Image Credit to The Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Bridgeport
In true Vaudeville style, the production will make a circuit around town with several performance stops:
Sept. 8 at the Monongalia Arts Center
Sept. 9 & 10 at M.T. Pockets Theatre
Sunday, Sept. 11 a special Service Industry Night.
All performances start at 8 pm.
Tickets are $25.
A Dancing Elephant is coming to town in September, ladies and gentlemen and it’s bringing along a talented group of friends. Dancing Elephant Productions is pleased to announce its inaugural event: High Spirits: A Burlesque Review.
High Spirits is a naughty little variety show that pays tribute to the golden age of vaudeville and burlesque and offers the audience an opportunity to get dolled up and step out for an evening of live music, dancing, comedy and burlesque style strip tease. The fabulous cast includes Seret Cole, Nicki Davis, Tawnya Drake, Wren Flannery, Justin Grow, Kaici Lore, and Melissa Ryan.
Proceeds will benefit The Monongalia Arts Center, M. T. Pockets Theatre and Vintage Theatre Company.
Photos by All Around Morgantown
Prelude: Once to Every Man and Nation
Welcome: Thich Nhat Hanh (SLT 505)
Let us be at peace with our bodies and our minds. Let us return to ourselves and become wholly ourselves. Let us be aware of the source of being, common to us all and to all living things.
Evoking the presence of the Great Compassion, let us fill our hearts with our own compassion—towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Let us pray that we ourselves cease to be the cause of suffering to each other.
With humility, with awareness of the existence of life, and of the suffering that are going on around us, let us practice the establishment of peace in our hearts and on earth.
Chalice Lighting: The Gift of Love
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed;
By this we worship, and are freed.
Song: Gathered Here (3 times) Continue reading
West Fork Unitarian Universalists 