What is Given From the Heart (The title and some recurring lines are rooted in the book, What is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack, Illustrated by April Harrison.) A message delivered March 1, 2020 by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, California At Christmas, in my family, […]
When the Winds Have Shifted, When the World Comes Undone * (* phrases from the song “Resilient” by Rising Appalachia) A message delivered February 16, 2020 by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, California Our Heritage of Optimism Universalists and Unitarians over the centuries have been, by nature and […]
Connected Beyond Belief A message delivered January 12, 2019 by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, California “Ultimately, the only freedom adequate to human dignity is the freedom to do what love asks of us. And the greatest blessings of life come to us and through us to all the […]
A message delivered December 15, 2019 by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, California Reading: “The Moment of Magic” by Rev. Victoria Safford READ IT HERE Message: Feel the Presence of a Hope by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Gail Johnson Vaughan spoke last Sunday of the ineffable nature of transcendent experience […]
What’s Wrong with God? In my opening words I told you about bringing my dad to a UUCM service, and his amazement that we never mentioned God. During that service I had a deeply moving journey into the sacred. He’d had a different experience. He did not make dispersions, he simply spoke his observation – […]
Mindfulness A sermon delivered November 24, 2019 by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, California Mindfulness Aspirations I begin with a poem by John Travis, founder of Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, long time teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He very recently published some of his […]
Expectation: I Am That I Am Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered September 8, 2019 Of Beer and Balsamic This morning I’d like to talk to you about…[hold up bottle]…beer. [open, take swig] Well, beer and…[hold up bottle]…balsamic vinegar. I don’t actually care for the taste of beer, […]
“God?” – Sermon by Jeff Stone August 25, 2019 I have an acquaintance who, a couple of years ago, wrote and published a book about coming to terms with the end of life. She told me that when she has presented this book at public readings, it is not uncommon for one or two people […]
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered May 26, 2019 May theme: curiosity “Let us learn the revelation of all nature and thought: that the Highest dwells within us, that the sources of nature are in our […]
“At the Edge of Hope” – sermon by Rev. Kevin TarsaUU Community of the MountainsGrass Valley, CAJanuary 13, 2019 INTRO You’ve been telling me, many of you, that hope is in short supply these days, a rare and precious commodity, what with the climate crisis and scientists’ dire warnings of immanent danger, the current manufactured […]
