Last week, I attended the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries Conference and Songleaders Convergence. It was restorative, regenerative, and reinvigorating. There will be many ways I’ll be sharing what I learned and relearned over the course of those six days with you this year. For now, I’m going to share three poems and song … Continue reading Songs for the Journey
“Many see life’s gifts as blessings from God. Our faith uses the idea of blessing to refer to something good, something that feels like a gift. Celebrating blessings means remembering with gratitude all the good things in our lives.” – Soul Matters
John O’Donohue writes “One of the huge confusions in our times is to mistake glamor for beauty…” This rings true to me. Too often we fixate on the glamour of The Louvre or a concert stage. Not often enough do many of us take the time to create beauty and maybe more importantly celebrate the … Continue reading Seek Beauty
Another way to put this is “I was today years old when…” captures one way to draw from our first of six UU sources “the sense of wonder we all share.”
What understanding did you wake up to lately?
Think of the first instrument you were ever taught in school. Was it the recorder for you as well? Or maybe it was the ukulele. Remember how slow it was to change between one note or chord to the next. Remember how awkward you first felt to do something new? But you kept at it…
Reopening to Onsite Religious Education for children Sunday Feb 20th
Expanding Religious Education for adults Sunday Feb 20th
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I have always found a need to create. I remember wanting my creations to be perfect. For a while I wanted to work on something until it was “done.” A circle was not a circle until it was complete. But what happens if we try to widen that circle? What happens when we leave a … Continue reading Moving in Circles
This month our collective focus at UUBerks is exploring ways in which our times call us to “Open to Joy.” Certainly the music of this month often resounds with Joy. A lot of songs tell us to be joyful “Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice Greatly!” Handel wrote. He also has that lasting ditty “Hallelujah.” There’s more recent … Continue reading Do You Hear What I Hear?
We are having our third meetup at Angora Orchard on Nov 21st from 1:30 to 2:30 and would love you to attend! Please signup at the link below so we know how many we will be. Signup closes 11/20 by midnight.
Who have you lit your home chalice with? Who will you light it with? Your cat? Your dog? Your loved ones around the table? Robin Slaw, masters level DRE at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, Maryland; a soul matters congregation, created this chalice lighting to share with us. We hold history when we light … Continue reading Chalice Lighting for November’s theme of Holding History
