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Love Makes a Bridge: Dealing with Fear
Love is the bridge between you and everything. Jalaluddin Rumi Unfortunately, this powerful little line from Rumi can come across almost as a platitude–a nice, innocuous little saying that really carries no weight, a saying that we could say and … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Religion
Religion should be a bridge builder, shouldn’t it? At first glance, I think this question would get a nod from most people. People who belong to and practice a religion generally believe that their religion is a source of good … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Love, Hope, Peace and Joy
Feeling hopeless can be devastating. Whatever the source, when we find ourselves hopeless or even approaching hopelessness, it’s as if a great chasm has opened up between where we are in life and where we need or want to go. … Continue reading
Love Makes A Bridge: Many Bridges are Needed
In today’s worship service I shared a quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: What is needed is the realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its … Continue reading
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Love Makes a Bridge: Holy Moments
In our Sunday Service this past week, Rev. Jan made this observation: “Holy moments often become the words and deeds of prophetic women and men.” Unitarian Universalists will recognize the “words and deeds of prophetic women and men” as one … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Connection Through Writing
I find that every day I make a connection with myself. I write something I didn’t know I had the ability to, or I speak of things beyond my own imagination. I see a new side of myself every single … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Live and Learn
When I was a child living in Tacoma, Washington, I remember watching film footage of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. The bridge had only been opened a few months when wind gusts hit it the wrong … Continue reading