Tag Archives: UU 1st Principle
Filled with Loving Kindness: Our House of Loving Kindness
It was a great privilege and an honor to travel to North Dakota this past week to take part in a gathering of over 500 clergy from at least 20 different faith traditions, along with indigenous peoples from well over … Continue reading
Filled with Loving Kindness: A Mantra Worth Repeating
You is kind. You is important. You is smart. These are the words given to a character in the film The Help, written by Tate Taylor adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name. The character, Aibileen Clark, is an … 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
Love Makes a Bridge: Into the Future
This whole week we have been pondering and reflecting on these well articulated reasons why Black Lives Matter. They can help us understand that the push-back claim “all lives matter” does not work to help us all become a better … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Through the System
Monday’s post of reasons why Black Lives Matter received very high readership. I want to continue for the next few days reflecting on some of those points and how love can make bridges for us. Let’s consider the itms on that … Continue reading
Love Makes a Bridge: Into our Memory
Monday’s post of reasons why Black Lives Matter received very high readership. I want to continue for the next few days reflecting on some of those points and how love can make bridges for us. Let’s consider the fourth and fifth … Continue reading