Past Services

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“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 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 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 […]

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 […]

“The Promise and the Practice of our Faith for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism”  Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Grass Valley, CA February 25, 2018 Note: This service was offered in support of an association wide effort to support Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU). BLUU was formed in the wake of several conversations […]

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 […]

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 […]

 COURAGE October 8, 2017 Somewhere in the back of my mind I had the romantic illusion that my ancestors had been driven from Ireland by famine. But when Lynn and I traveled there in 2010 I discovered that the dates were vague. Rather than starving refugees in the bottoms of leaky boats, it appears my […]

COURAGE Rev. Karyn Packard October 8th, 2017 Courage… What conditions demand it?  Where does it come from?  What is courage…really? When I think about courage, what immediately comes to mind are those stories of soldiers throwing themselves over the bodies of their comrades to save them from being shot… valor in combat.  I think of […]