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Using Covenant As A Verb
We covenant to learn from one another in our free and responsible searchfor truth and meaning – Final Proposed Revision to Article II Can you see and feel the difference in the language between our current principles and the proposed … Continue reading
Posted in Gift of Pluralism
Tagged covenant, learning, Love, reflections on Article II language changes
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Welcome to the Work
I want to love the world. I really, truly do. But it’s hard, you know? There is so much division, exclusion, judgement… Where do we begin doing the work of welcoming that honors our interconnectedness and the understanding that our … Continue reading
Courageous Love
In my spiritual exploration, I’m reading Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery by Chögyam Trungpa. In the few first pages he offers ideas about what fear is and where it comes from: “Fear is nervousness; fear is … Continue reading
Filled with Loving Kindness: The Absurdity of Today
(The fires, while very real and truly devastating, are herein used as a metaphor for my feelings about the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Also very real and – from my perspective – truly devastating.) Wildfires are … 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
Posted in Love Makes a Bridge
Tagged justice, Love, relationships, UU 5th Principle, UU 6th Principle
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Love Makes a Bridge: Where is the Love? part 2
I have always been a relatively optimistic person. I see the silver linings in situations, I see hope on even the farthest horizon, and I believe that people are inherently good, at the core. I abhor injustice, and I break … Continue reading
Posted in Love Makes a Bridge
Tagged commitment, community, humanity, inherent worth, Love, unity, UU 1st Principle
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Love Makes a Bridge: Where is the Love–part 1
This. Slays me. Breaks me. Opens me. Please listen. Again and again. The group, The Black Eyed Peas, has done and re-done this amazing, devastating, healing song. It is a bridge. It is a bridge in so many ways. It … Continue reading
Posted in Love Makes a Bridge
Tagged community, compassion, justice, Love, UU 1st Principle
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