It is said that only death and taxes are certain. Add to the list, change. Change, sometimes invited and intentional, sometimes resisted and denied. We can engage it, resist it, deny, ignore or celebrate it and still change will occur. Our Unitarian Universalist faith invites us to embrace change.
September 30th has been declared National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day of memorial, to recognize and acknowledge the effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Let us honour this day and identify ways we might individually and collectively continue the work of reconciliation.
One of the Canadian Unitarian Council’s stated aspirations is to be: Spiritually Grounded: We seek transformation through personal spiritual experiences and shared ritual. How does community enhance our sense of being spiritually grounded? How can the current need to be nimble and embrace an emergent attitude be included in our being spiritually grounded?
What values inform your living, what is central to your understanding of how to be an active contributing participant in the great web of life? What is the place of theology in your experience? These questions are inspired by this month’s theme which is one of the CUC ‘s Aspiration Statement to be Theologically Alive: We … Continue reading Living From The Center
This first service of the new year, we will look back and forward, in the present moment, collectively and individually. This will include rituals of release (fire) and invitation (earth). Let us welcome the New Year holding in our hearts the monthly theme of being Actively Engaged*. *The monthly theme is engaged in some fashion … Continue reading Endings, Beginning, Cycles And Sparks
This season of midwinter, of festivals of light, of shortest days and longest nights, brings so many emotions, the joys and the losses, excitement and disappointments, and many memories. Can we be radically inclusive of all these feelings? How might we honour the blues of the season along with the sparkle? https://youtu.be/0SSQFL9QHCo
Bread is a universal food of life. You are invited to bring bread to share, that is perhaps part of your ethnic heritage, family tradition, or that has some significant meaning for you. The sharing leads us to reflect on the value of gratitude. Sunday, October 13 is Thanksgiving, and you are invited to bring … Continue reading Manna, Bread of Life, Gratitude
How does faith inform our lives and our engagement in community. Do we have a common shared understanding of what faith is? Come join the continuing exploration of what it is to be a faith community. Rev. Debra Faulk joins us this year as a ¼ time contract minister. Debra, is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, … Continue reading Faith Beyond Belief
