Return to UUCG
What are you looking for?
Subscribe
-
From the past:
Archives
Author Archives: Bob Patrick
Chaos Required
Transformation comes out of chaos. Is this true? I’ve been thinking about it lately. I imagine two different scenarios which inform transformation, whether personally (e.g. health, financial, sense of purpose, search for meaning), or in larger social, cultural and political … Continue reading
One Thing Changes Another
Each separate being in the universereturns to the common source.Returning to the source is serenity. Tao Te Ching, 16Stephen Mitchel, tr. He lived in the house down the street. I only ever saw him when he passed in a car, … Continue reading
Everything Is Always Changing
Balance comes, not from holding onto a situation, but from making friends with heaven and earth. Earth is gravity, or practicality. Heaven is vision or the experience of open space in which you can uplift your posture, your head and … Continue reading
Can the Heart Win This One?
Are we so disconnected from our own souls that we are unable to recognize the soul within another? –Lisa Kiel True justice and equity will not happen until we see each other as equals. –Rita Romero The Words that Lisa … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
A Community of Justice and Equity
Pessimism: We have a problem, but we can’t solve it.Optimism: We have a problem, and we can solve it.Responsibility: We have a problem. Can I help solve it?Initiative: We have a problem. Here’s how I’m solving it.Adam Grant I have … Continue reading
Justice and Equity: A Unitarian Ground
Claiming the words “Unitarian Universalist” gives us a LOT to talk about. Today, it’s the Unitarian part that is speaking so loudly to me. I spent twelve years as a practicing Catholic. The Daily Office is a spiritual practice of … Continue reading
Knowledge, Access and Respect
We have recently been watching a British drama series at our house filmed in the 1990’s but about a time just after World War II in the early 1950’s. It is set in a small town in Scotland, and centers … Continue reading