Religious Director Ebee Bromley Monthly Blog
From the desk of your director of religious education, Ebee Bromley What we offer at UUBerks doesn’t get created without each and every one of you. So this summer we’re highlighting reflections from our community members about what it means to them to co-create our community. When it comes to learning and exploring our spiritual … Continue reading Creating Joy Together
This month, on the cusp of the ‘endless days of summer’, I bring to you an exercise suggested in June’s Soulful Home Packet. Soulful Home curator, Teresa Honey-Youngblood writes: The Groundhog Day Effect is an informal but commonly experienced phenomenon of feeling as if you are reliving the same day over and over, as if … Continue reading From Soulful Home: The Groundhog Day Effect
From the desk of your religious educator; April’s Mantra found in Soulful Home Packet is explored “All of us need all of us to make it.”
Have you met Borris yet? He’s been hanging out at your church since our fall Movie Night. Each week he talks with Erin, our Sunday morning assistant and sexton. Each week he tells her a new place that he would like to observe us from. …Getting a good vantage point can be hard for us humans sometimes. Finding that vantage point is so important when we are working to make the world a better place. This mantra “Pause. Breathe. Win the moment,” is adapted from Charles Oteyza..
May your heart be opened, your spirit renewed, and your life transformed by experiences of mystery and wonder in this season.
One of the gifts that this year brings us is the rich treasure of our heritage. Our roots, the people who came before to dare, to dream, to do amazing things, are apart of our story as Unitarian Universalists today. Have you explored the 9 Unitarians and Universalists and Unitarian Universalists on our RE board … Continue reading The Roots of Our Heritage
This past week at General Assembly, thousands of UU’s from across the globe and many ages gathered to worship, to wonder, and to explore what we as Unitarian Universalists believe. One way we did this was to vote on the process of updating what’s in Article two of the UUA’s bylaws to continue. Article two is the section that holds what have been called our principles and sources, although, they’ve had a few different names through the years since the Unitarians and Universalists merged into one faith in 1961.
Creativity happens when we ask ourselves – what if? It’s our ability to dream things up, hold them in our minds and then make them real in the world.
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability and authenticity.” Brené Brown Taking in Brown’s quote on vulnerability this month my mind turned to a story. Do you remember hearing the story of The Mish Mashed Heart? In the story, a young child, Milly, … Continue reading Choosing Vulnerability
Finding our Center can be a bit like hide and seek. We need to seek out who we are. Do we look around the corner or further down the hallway for the person hiding? What do we love? What makes us feel ecstatic? What puts a smile on our faces? What feels like the … Continue reading Hide And Seek
