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by Rev Michelle Scott-Huffman Moment of Perspective Pride at First UU – What is Pride? What is Welcome? The opening words are from Chloe Rain: The Summer Solstice is a time to reflect on your personal growth and the meaning of the season of light and growth. This is the moment of our year when … Continue reading Return to Nature’s Playground
by Jessica Wirges The opening words are by George Bernard Shaw.We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. Prelude:Children’s SongsPublic Domain Nursery RhymesPerformed by Jessica Wirges, Eugene Wirges, and Friends This is truly some delightful PLAY on display! Jessica and Susanne had such a great idea for this … Continue reading The Power of Play
by Rev Michelle Scott-Huffman In his book Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, Stuart Brown writes “I don’t think it is too much to say that play can save your life. It certainly has salvaged mine. Life without play is a grinding, mechanical existence organized around doing the … Continue reading Saved by Play
by Luna Hamburg Moment of Perspective – Flower Communion The opening words, “Constellations of Our Lives”, are from the Rev. Karen G Johnston. Humans make maps of stars,choosing some stars, ignoring others,to project our imaginations onto the heavens.These maps shift over time, across cultures.Names change for the same assemblage of bright points:Drinking Gourd, Big Dipper, … Continue reading Imagining People Complexly
Religious Education director AJ Fox tells us about the origins of Flower Communion in the homily this week. Moment of Perspective – International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia – AJ Fox The opening words are by Rev. Scott Taylor. We gather as a house of stories.As we learn of those who have gone before,the … Continue reading Flower Communion
What if to “side with love” meant making bold, faith-full choices? What if it were even a little bit scary? This worship service brings together worship leaders and musicians from across the country to offer hopeful, moving, challenging reminders about what we, as Unitarian Universalists, are called to do, and BE, in the world. – … Continue reading Side with Love
Throughout the month of May, we’re excited to explore the “Story” theme. As we continue to imagine what and who we are becoming as we live out our Unitarian Universalist principles together, our stories help us to come to know one another at a deeper level and to dream of the ways our stories will … Continue reading Tell Us a Story
by Colleen Appel There are many reasons for writing. Several First UU poets will tell us why they write and how their writing has helped in “becoming themselves.” April is Poetry Month; join us in celebrating the poets among us. Moment of Perspective – On Ordinary Lives – AJ Fox The opening words are Bring … Continue reading On Becoming Ourselves (and Unbecoming Who We Are Not)
by Rev Michelle Scott-Huffman The observance of both Easter and Passover provide an opportunity for us to remember sacred stories that have breathed life into weary people for thousands of years. As we feel the weight of our own weariness, may we be reminded that we, too, can become alive again and those old sacred … Continue reading Becoming Alive Again
by Emmie Seaman Ode to Dirty Fingernails by Dacia Reid Echo of woodpecker wafts on morning airWorm spouts pock the pathPurple spears of crocus reach heavenward Repeating shrill of bird callCelebrates the golden pink dawn horizonand new blue sky line Burgeoning skeletal branchesMysteriously expand in the growing lightWondrous greening – filigree then shade Mid-morning cacophony … Continue reading Committed to Growing
