Monthly Archives: January 2024

Love and Generosity

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Bob Patrick

When we bring love to our understanding of generosity, we transform it from a synonym for charity to the act of creativity that is true generosity. Consider the people across your life who have done something good, kind and thoughtful … Continue reading →

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Freeing My Jealous Heart

Posted on January 10, 2024 by admin

When we are young, love is so chaotic and exciting. It’s mysterious and stirs our emotions in a torrent of swirls and tornados all over our body. That kind of love is what I grew up being told was lust … Continue reading →

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Love and Pluralism

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Somewhere in all of our early education, we learned the word “plus.” It was a part of our earliest math lessons: one plus one equals two. At a more sophisticated age (maybe middle school) we might have been found saying … Continue reading →

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A Last Loving Look

Posted on January 8, 2024 by admin

This is that time of year. When I go into that cabinet on that shelf where we keep that basket. This is the keeper of those pieces of  paper – mail, notes, cards, receipts, etc. Things we are not ready … Continue reading →

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Love and Transformation

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Bob Patrick

This is another of my own musings on the proposed new expression of our Unitarian Universalists principles. Transformation is an expensive word that means change. Its Latin roots imply the changing of the shape of something from one thing to … Continue reading →

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Dear Me, I Love You

Posted on January 4, 2024 by admin

Dear Me,  As I sit down to write this letter to you, I reflect on how far you’ve come in your life. From a child who only knows of love as painful and prideful to a woman that is so … Continue reading →

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Love and Equity

Posted on January 3, 2024 by admin

Our proposed new way of considering our principles has invited me into this series of reflections. These are my musings. What is equity, and what would it be or mean without being rooted in love? Equity recognizes that while it’s … Continue reading →

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