Dear ones, I am away this week. To go with our sermon series on Hope In Anxious Times, I have a poem for you from one of my ministerial colleagues, Rev. Mellisa Carvill Ziemer, the co-Executive Director of the UU Ministers Association.   A Prayer For These Times Beloved,help us to remember youespecially when fear and

Oh it’s been so fun to walk around to the different classrooms during our Exploration Hour from 12-1 after service. This past week, we had 7 people at our Get To Know UUCP gathering. But, the most fun for me is going around to the Children’s Ministries classrooms and seeing the excitement of the new

It can sometimes be a challenge to meet the needs of everyone in every generation. Everybody has different needs to feel safe and also to feel like they are in sacred space, some of which include: hearing issues, mobility issues, security issues, to feeling like they can settle into sacred space.   It is no secret

As we gather this Sunday for our beloved Water Communion, I am reminded of why this ritual holds such a special place in our hearts as Unitarian Universalists. The Water Communion symbolizes the coming together of our diverse and unique journeys. Each droplet of water we share represents our personal stories, our travels, and the

August is the month of planning! Even though I don’t have kids in school (although I do have two teachers in the family now!), August has always been the time when new opportunities feel ripe and it is the metaphorical new notebook with fresh clean pages. It feels like another opportunity to start over again.

This past Sunday was the first week of our Spiritual Nourishment Series. In our first week, we did a UU version of Lectio Divina with Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem Kindness. I had a number of people who said they really enjoyed that and wanted to learn more. I’m really glad because it is also one