May 4th is our Installation ceremony for Pastor Isabel Call. Please go to uufm.net/installation for information and to RSVP.
Previous Service Themes adapted from Soul Matters …
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 we listen to it?
How often do … read more.
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 … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Renewing Faith …
“Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat.” — Frederick Buechner
“Once a reporter asked A.J. Muste, “Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Widening the Circle …
Is it possible that
being on the inside
leaves you out of the loop?
What if the margins
aren’t narrow?
What if that space of exclusion
is also a position of perspective?
What if being shut out
allows you to understand the insiders
better … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Living with Intention …
“Here’s what I discovered. Intention is different from setting goals or resolutions in that it “pulls us into” who we truly are. Goals and resolutions “push us out” into future possibilities. To set intentions, we … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Opening to Joy …
It’s easy to get tricked,
taken for a ride,
convinced that joy
is a possession.
Something to be opened
just by us.
As if it’s a holiday special delivery,
waiting for us to unwrap it
and keep forever.
And who can blame us,
with pain … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Holding History …
Let’s start with the words of Parker Palmer,
“Jewish teaching includes frequent reminders of the importance of a broken-open heart, as in this Hasidic tale: A disciple asks the rebbe: “Why does Torah tell us to ‘place … read more.
This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Cultivating Relationship …
Pandemic time is teaching us so many things about relationships.
It’s undone our assumptions about work, calling into question the worth of “going into the office” and exposing how we pass most of the economic pain down … read more.
What does it mean to be a people of Play?
We all are playing.
Playing it up, playing it down, trying to play fair.
Playing for keeps, playing favorites, playing it safe,
sometimes too safe.
He plays hardball; They’re playing house; I’m playing it by ear,
or at least learning to … read more.
What does it mean to be a people of Story?
Stories don’t just embellish our lives; they make and even dictate our lives. This might be the most important reminder of this month. Indeed, who of us hasn’t felt controlled by a story? Stuck in a … read more.
