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Filled with Loving Kindness: Mix with Care

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Bob Patrick

You carry all the ingredients to turn your life into a nightmare — don’t mix them! Hafiz If we spend any regular time reflecting on our lives, we know on some level what those ingredients are–the ingredients that, if mixed, … Continue reading →

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Filled with Loving Kindness: Who Makes a Difference?

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Bob Patrick

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive. Hafiz Over the last few weeks, I’ve shared posts that include reports from brain research about how the content of our thinking can change our brains.  When we … Continue reading →

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Filled with Loving Kindness: For the Sake of the Earth

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Bob Patrick

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! Hafiz I know that some people reading this do not accept the notion that we come into this life with … Continue reading →

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Filled with Loving Kindness–What We Speak

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Bob Patrick

What We speak Becomes the house we live in. Who will want to sleep in your bed If the roof leaks Right above It? Look what happens when the tongue Cannot say to kindness: “I will be your slave.” The … Continue reading →

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Filled with Loving Kindness: A Mantra Worth Repeating

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Bob Patrick

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 →

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October 31: Let Us Build A House of Peace–A World House

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Bob Patrick

On this last day of our theme–Let us build a house of peace–I am drawn back to a simple and yet transformative teaching that I’ve known since I was a small child.  For all that people from different sectors want … Continue reading →

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Let This Be A House of Peace: Covenant

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Bob Patrick

At the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, we are a covenantal community. That means several things.  It means that we have taken the time and intent to talk together, explore together and put down on paper the ways in which … Continue reading →

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