I write this week having just returned from a much needed vacation (my first since 2023!) and am now catching up on what I’ve missed. I feel rested and renewed and ready to begin year number two with you all. And yet, it fells odd to say that I feel refreshed after the last month, given ...

Imagination is sparked by questions.   Imagination and Inspiration travel together and help spur each other on. So this month I bring you some background information on the inspiration of one of our hymns #1003 Where Do We Come From.  Here’s the note from our UUA’s Song Information Page: The lyrics of this song come from the French title of ...

Today I think of swimming and being in water as a kind of freedom.  I know the water will hold me and when I get in I can let all of my worries and my body be held by a force that’s not me. I can float away.   But for my almost 8 month old, swimming ...

by nadine j. smet-weiss spiritual director simply notice the flow of your breath in and out natural give and take between you and the world  revealing a steady rhythm of life  beneath the surface of all being