Letting Your Life Speak – September 2, 2018 – Rev. Kevin Tarsa

Letting Your Life Speak Sermon UUCM 9-2-18 Rev. Kevin Tarsa Letting Your Life Speak Rev.  Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered September 2, 2018 A reading from the Letter of St. Palmer to the Roamers: Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what […]

Wrestling with “God” – 8/26/2018 – Rev. Kevin Tarsa

Wrestling with “God” Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains A sermon delivered August 26, 2018 Reading    “Couples Counseling” from Love Like Thunder by Jess Reynolds Reading    From Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott(see http://thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2012/11/excerpt-from-help-thanks-wow-by-anne-lamott/)   Wrestling with “God”  by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Jacob’s Story – Genesis 32:22-31 In the first […]

Oxygen, Soda Water, Gunpowder and You – 7/29/18 – Rev. Kevin Tarsa

“Oxygen, Soda Water, Gunpowder, and You” by Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains July 29, 2018   Time for All Ages        “Joseph Priestley” from the Tapestry of Faith “Miracles” curriculum by Adrianne Ross, Chris Jablonski, Miriam Smith, & Susan Lawrence. https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/multigenerational/miracles/session-4/joseph-priestley   Sermon      “Oxygen, Soda Water, Gunpowder, and You”   by Rev. Kevin Tarsa […]

Free the Prodigal Self – 7/22/18 – Bev Lyon

FREE THE PRODIGAL SELF By Bev Lyon Part I – The Hostage Self     I love stories of all kinds, and one of my favorites is the story of the prodigal son. You may know it.  A man has two sons, one who leads a disreputable life in the city and one who stays […]

A More Perfect Union – 7-1-18 – Rev. Kevin Tarsa

A More Perfect Union a sermon by the Rev. Kevin Tarsa delivered July 1, 2018 to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains   (Preceded by an excerpted reading of Langston Hughes’ poem, “Let America Be America Again.”)    “The happiness of governments like ours, wherein the people are truly the mainspring, is that they […]

UUCM Earth Day Sermon

Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Earth Day, April 22, 2018 Sights and Sounds for Entering this Time  – slideshow of nature photography with nature sounds   Songs for Gathering     #21 For the Beauty of the Earth  #1066 O Brother Sun   Welcome      Gail Johnson Vaughan   Prelude     Ancient Mother   UUCM Family Choir and Congregation […]

Love is the Water that Wears Down the Rock – 2/11/18 – Rev. Kevin Tarsa

Love is the Water that Wears Down the Rock Sermon delivered Sunday, February 11, 2018 to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains by Rev. Kevin Tarsa   Opening Words    attributed to Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As […]

Resurrecting the Spirit

I Am Learning by Carmen Riley  I am learning the endless joys of sobriety The multiple ways in which to calm my fears and mend my broken spirit The multiple ways to call back my power. I learn trust Take refuge against the spiraling vortex of my past I am learning… Learning to spread my […]