Reframing Aging
Angela Lavery, PhD, LCSW, FT Associate Professor at West Chester University We will be reframing aging, not as a problem or a disease, but as living. When we create age-friendly environments, it benefits everyone’s well-being
Speaker: Lauren Fritz
Friendsgiving Sunday!
You and yours are warmly invited to share in the joy of a Friendsgiving Service and meal together! Come enjoy Friendsgiving Sunday Service, with songs and messages that comfort and nurture our friendship souls, followed by a wonderful potluck meal.
Of One Inextricable Connection
When we listen to the visionaries of our time, they come back to the central tenant that we must realize we are one – beyond race, beyond caste, beyond opposing viewpoints. Explore this species dependent, inextricable connection with us today.
Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day, we will reflect upon the indigenous belief that there is both feminine and masculine energy in all of us. We will explore how each one of us can bring the qualities of the feminine and our mother energy to the healing and recreation so desperately needed in our world.
Acknowledging the Oddness and Opportunity in Coming Back Together
In this service we will take a sincere and good-humored look at change over time. We will think about how we have changed and how these changes afford us openings to acknowledge what is different, and to find the wonderful space within us for new relationships and growth.
Sanctuary
Today, from our own church sanctuary, we will consider what “sanctuary” means in our lives. We all need places of refuge and protection; maybe now more than ever considering the continuous challenges we are being confronted with. What places, people, or practices feel like a sanctuary to you? In what ways are you yourself a … Continue reading Sanctuary
Meeting this messy life with grace
Some folks make New Year’s resolutions, like lose 5 pounds and read more non-fiction. Others think about living with intention, which tends to be more process-oriented, like pay attention and have worthy goals. It means moving out of autopilot and into a meaningful, well-balanced life based on your own conscious choices. And that’s swell, but … Continue reading Meeting this messy life with grace
Navigating the Rocky Terrain
Relationships can be especially challenging to foster during these times, when it feels like strain and animosity are ramped up in our society as a whole. Today we’ll find perspective for engaging our hearts and minds in this work of connection, even in this most rugged terrain.
Change: Potential and Possibility
During times of uncertainty, it can feel like change is happening ‘at’ us. Today, we will explore helpful ways that change can happen ‘with’ (and within) us in a more integrated way, both individually and in healthy community.
The Life-Death Connection
Join members Lauren Fritz and Tracie Greth as they explore the connection between life and death through nature’s lessons and the moving images evoked by Mary Oliver’s poetry.