Category Archives: Advent

Advent (Love): Room For Everyone

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Bob Patrick

Oh, oh come in, Bring your friends, Bring your neighbors, Bring your whole family. Oh, come on in, There is room in the stable For everyone. When people ask me what Unitarian-Universalism is, I manage to include:  there’s room for … Continue reading →

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Advent (Love) – Generating Love

Posted on December 23, 2013 by admin

@Pontifex on December 23, 2013 @5:23 am EST Retweet Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.  …Pope Francis As I move about in various places … Continue reading →

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Advent (Love): Sharing the Love

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Christiana McQuain

This morning, the youth of our congregation presented our annual holiday pageant.  This year it was a retelling of the nativity story entitled, “Would You Like to Hold the Baby?”, written by Joyce Poley. This version of the story – … Continue reading →

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Advent (Joy): Winter’s Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Bob Patrick

Joy takes on the color of its surroundings.  Today is the shortest day of the year because, as the ancients had it, the Sun is dying.  That is the color of Joy today.  Don’t stop reading.  Joy can, indeed, be … Continue reading →

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Advent (Joy): Cultivating Friendship

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Bob Patrick

Emotional support means that someone other than me understands the feelings that are tossing me around in my life.  The very existence of another human being who sees and understands me on that level brings–joy! Self-disclosure means that another person … Continue reading →

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Advent (Joy): Of Giving

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Christiana McQuain

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”  ~ Rabindranath Tagore For the past few years, we at UUCG have “adopted” students at a local … Continue reading →

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Advent (Joy): Friendship

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Bob Patrick

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendships are crucial to our experience as human beings.  Both in my life as a teacher watching adolescents interact, … Continue reading →

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