Tag Archives: UU 1st Principle
Beauty: Gratitude Practice
I have shared this practice here before. I began doing this years ago, and it has a powerful effect on me. It can be done in any public space. I began doing it while at the gym. As you move … Continue reading
Return Again: Human Dignity
Return again, return again, return to who you are . . . I continue to have this theme of who we are arise in my daily life. It comes in many forms, and because it does, it seems to want … Continue reading
Return Again: Illusions, Delusions and Solutions
Yesterday Nathalie Bigord sat next to me during the Service at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett. Our quick greetings and check-ins came to the same place. It doesn’t feel good to wake up in a country where white supremacists … Continue reading
All Is Welcome Here: We’re Okay
I have had the occasion this past year to be in conversation with some younger (than I) adults, and it’s only dawning on me now that there is a pattern in those conversations. Sometimes, they are about teaching and working … Continue reading
All Is Welcome Here: The Real You
His name was Clyde. He stood a good head and a half taller than me, an African American man probably about the same age as me. We had agreed to be conversation partners at a meeting held by the ACLU … Continue reading
All Is Welcome Here: Doing Our Work
Jennifer Garrison, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, and I had a conversation after the service this past Sunday, and then she followed up sharing her reflections. These are the kinds of interior journeys that become our … Continue reading
All Is Welcome Here: Changing our Stories
When Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says that changing the narratives that support inequity and racial injustice is one of the major requirements for changing the world we live in, he is tapping into something very … Continue reading