Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen Lands, Strong Hearts On Sunday, July 24, at 4 pm, we encourage everyone to join us to view and discuss this powerful film. Click for detailed information and a Zoom link to sign in. UUFM Sponsors a Blessing Box and Little Free Library at Wonder Workshop To contribute items, contact … Continue reading Social Action – July 2022
Rejuvenation Our summer theme is Rejuvenation. When asked mid-June to reflect on what their personal themes were this summer, the Sunday Service conveners shared these words: Healing, Recovery, Renewal, Hope, Rest, Setting intentions, Becoming, Self Care When we came upon the word REJUVENATION, we shared a sigh of relief. We want the summer to be … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – July 2022
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. This phrase has become a part of my inner soundtrack, but I recently got curious about where it came from. What I learned: though it expanded within American consciousness in 2008 when spoken by then Senator Obama, he probably read it in a 2006 book so-titled by … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – June 2022
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Celebrating Blessings … A Soul Matters facilitator once shared, “I guess after plan A fails, I need to remember there’s still a whole alphabet out there.” Who of us doesn’t need a little help remembering that? Especially after enduring Covid for so long. And the ongoing reckoning with … Continue reading Celebrating Blessings (June 2022)
UUFM Sponsors a Blessing Box and Little Free Library at Wonder Workshop To contribute items, contact Doug at kbsi@cox.net. Or, drop by Wonder Workshop, at 506 S 4th Street, and stock the box with your items. Our box is in demand, and we’re short on financial donations to replenish staples. You can contribute financially to … Continue reading Social Action – May 2022
What’s in a name? I’ve been with you all now for six months and I’m feeling like I’m getting to know you! From Sunday Services, Action Wednesday, and one-on-one conversations, I’m learning your stories, your hopes, your dreams, and … your names! I know a lot of people dread it, but I personally enjoy the … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – May 2022
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Nurturing Beauty … Beauty. We appreciate it. How could we not? We wonder at it. Get absorbed in it. Analyze it, if it’s got a frame around it. We make it. Grow it. Point at it. Collect it. Share it. Save it. But how often do … Continue reading Nurturing Beauty (May 2022)
UUFM Sponsors a Blessing Box and Little Free Library at Wonder Workshop To contribute items, contact Doug at kbsi@cox.net. Or, drop by Wonder Workshop, at 506 S 4th Street, and stock the box with your items. Our box is in demand, and we’re short on financial donations to replenish staples. You can contribute financially to … Continue reading Social Action – April 2022
Waking up this morning I smile. A full, fresh, new day is before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and look upon all beings with eyes of compassion. These words have been with me since childhood, when I read a version of them in Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Heart of the Buddha’s … Continue reading Note From Pastor Isa – April 2022
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Awakening … You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with [someone], and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating … Continue reading Awakening (April 2022)
