By Rev. Phil Lund The opening words are “Come, Come,” adapted from Rumi by Unitarian Universalist minister Rev. Leslie Takahashi. Come, come, whoever you areCome with your hurts, your imperfections, your places that feel raw and exposed.Come, come, whoever you areCome with your strengths that the world shudders to holdCome Read more
Message by Rev. Michelle Scott-Huffman In an article entitled “Living in the Real World,” Mark Nepo writes: This is what the great choice comes down to—the great conflict between first-hand experience and tradition, between spontaneity and decorum, between compassion and obligation. Other life forms have no part in this. It’s Read more
Message by Dacia Reid Moment of Perspective – Toothpaste – Babs Garcia Opening Words: We Are Glad You Are HereWords of Amanda Schuber If this is your first time here or your one-hundred-and-first time; we are glad you are here.If you carry the weight of a weary world on your Read more
Featuring Tom McFarland, Justin Russell, and Emily McKinney. These words come from the essay The Middle Way by Michael A. Shuler. Most people know the legend: how Siddhartha, desperate for an answer to the riddle of existence, traded a life of comfort and ease for one of austerity and complete Read more
Message by Mike Brown Moment of Perspective – Circles – AJ Fox The opening reading is Walking the Crooked Path, by Thomas Rhodes. Holy Spirit of Life and Love,You who are our source and our ultimate destiny,Lead us this day on a crooked path.So often we are in so much Read more
Message by Scoop Peery Moment of Perspective – Racism: Past and Present – AJ Fox The opening reading is For All That Is Our Life, by Liz Weber Spirit of Life,help us to be present with all that is our life,both our deepest sorrows and our greatest joys,so that we Read more
By Leslie Sawyer (Founder/Shelter Director at Eden Animal Haven) The opening reading is Blessing of the Animals, by Thomas Rhodes. You Birds of the Air,Hawk, Sparrow, and laughing JayYou embody freedom itself,delight us with your song, astound us with feats of migrationGrant us your perspective,for too often our horizon is Read more
Message by Dr. Bradley Fisher The opening reading is by Gary Kowalski. We gather here to worship:to seek the truth, to grow in love, to join in service;to celebrate life’s beauty and find healing for its pain;to honor our kinship with each other and with the earth;to create a more Read more
By AJ Fox How to Survive the Apocalypse by Rev. Sean Parker Dennison from their collection “Breaking and Blessing”. First, learn to listen.Not for enemies aroundcorners in hidden places,but for the faint footstepsof hope and the whisper of resistance.Hone your skills, aim yourheart toward kindness andstockpile second chances.Under the weight Read more
Message by Charles Abernathy, Read by Jessica Wirges Moment of Perspective – Bathroom Remodel – AJ Fox The opening words come to us from Marsha P. Johnson. Marsha P. Johnson, along with Sylvia Rivera, are two of the trans women of color who were instrumental in the Stonewall Inn Uprising Read more