Aside from the Beatle’s assertion that Love is All You Need, there are times in everyone’s life when love is not enough to carry us through life’s challenges. Join the Reverend Janet Onnie as we explore love in relationships. […]
The Languages of Love: How can we expect others to love us in the way we want to be loved when we haven’t quite figured out what that is? Fish, meet water. Water, fish. […]
Conventional wisdom says one finds one’s center in stillness. We will explore how finding our center requires movement and motion, and a willingness to lean into this paradox. […]
Being a human is hard work. Naturally social creatures, most of us struggle at times with feeling as if we don’t belong, as if we are different, as if we are apart from some greater whole. What if finding our center is the key to connecting with others?
In a ritual-graced service, we’ll mark the entrance to the next four and a half Sabbatical Renewal months with mutual blessings and well-wishing, thoughtful invitations, and a welcome to UUCM’s Sabbatical Minister. […]
In preparation for UUCM’s upcoming Sabbatical/Renewal and, to be honest, life in general, Rev. Kevin invites us to consider our reactions and responses to change, shifts, the unknown and the conscious and unconscious anxiety that arises in reply. Can we find the gifts at the center of it all? […]
Anita Wald-Tuttle originated a Cider Sunday years ago. An informal New Year’s service accompanied by cups of cider, the service invited people to look both back at the past year and into the next, and to share what they saw in each direction. Though the form of the service is adapted now to UUCM’s larger numbers, we once again pause at the very threshold of the new year to look both ways as we cross into 2023. […]
Carols, candles, elegant evergreens, lovely music, brief poems and reflections, the passing of the light: Christmas Eve steeped in wonder, gentle joy, and your presence.
In this gentle and not-too-formal service we’ll sing, reflect, share joys and sorrows, and immerse ourselves in connection and the gifts of the moment.
A couple of millennia ago, as the story goes, three kings “traversed afar,” transfixed by the wonder of a grand celestial event. They took with them gifts for a baby who was houseless, born into a minority culture under a repressive regime. What gifts would you bring? What would the baby need to survive? To thrive?
