This Labor Day weekend, consider the nature of work and rest – in our over-working culture, in our psyche’s, in our bodies, in our spirits, and in our day-to-day lives – through the lens and spiritual practice of “sabbath.” Rev. Kevin Tarsa and Carol Nimick
Don’t You Need a Welcome? (With UUCM’s Annual Water Ceremony) We enter this month’s theme of “Building Belonging” by recognizing the powerful significance of belonging, especially in the midst of so much public “othering.” Come, whoever you are. Come, build a place of welcome, of hope, of compassion as well as power. Come, build a […]
Building Belonging: Architects of Fate Picking up on the themes of the previous Sunday’s service, we ask more deeply why it matters that UUCM is here, why being part of such a community matters now in particular, and what the upward movement of energy, interest, and number of searchers at our doors is asking of us, […]
Belonging to Place Our ‘sense of place’ is foundational to our well- being for a place can protect, inspire, comfort and ground us. Perhaps it is where we were born or a site in nature? Perhaps our UUCM sanctuary? Our sense of place lives in our hearts and bodies. Let us plumb the dimensions of place […]
Erik Walker Wikstrum writes, “Common wisdom holds that people come to church for a sense of belonging, and that getting involved with a committee or task force is a great way to meet people and feel more connected.” But what if we come for an even deeper reason, he asks: “to have our lives transformed.” […]
