Sundays: 12 noon (CT) in-person and online
Presenter: Richard Clarke Service Associate: Carol Johnson Richard Clarke will explore the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a guide not just for dying, but for living with clarity in the later years of life. Drawing on Tibetan Buddhist wisdom and the open, questioning spirit of Unitarian Universalism, he shows how the “Bardo”—the space between what was … Continue reading “What We Can Learn from the Tibetan Book of the Dead”
Presenters: Elly Contreras, Joan Fletcher and Ann Godshall Service Associate: Tim Boeve This service will introduce a new nonprofit initiative at Lakeside called “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood” which seeks to bring compassionate culturally responsive dementia care for all those facing this affliction in our neighborhoods. The three-part presentation spearheaded by LCUUF member, Elly Contreras, along with … Continue reading “Lakeside Memory Neighborhood”
Peter Jeschofnig : Presenter Lamar Allen: Service Associate In 1964, at the age of twenty-one, Ajijic resident Peter Jeschofnig spent six months as a volunteer at Albert Schweitzer’s legendary hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon — one of the last people to know the great humanitarian personally before his death in 1965. In this talk, Peter reflects … Continue reading A Life Devoted to Reverence: One Volunteer’s Six Months with Albert Schweitzer
Presenter: Rev. Tim Boeve Service Associate: Ted Fahy Musician: Wiley Beveridge Two ways of being are available to us and we see both on display in today’s world of politics, daily living, and in nature. The Rev.T im Boeve will speak to these two ways in his message, Pro Bono, Quid Pro Quo and Us. One … Continue reading Pro Bono, Quid Pro Quo and Us
Presenters: Frank Watson, D’Vorah Kelley, Bob Koches Service Associate: Bob Craft Each of us is on a spiritual journey. Each of us is following our own path through life. Join us Sunday, April 12 as three of our members of the Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Riberas share their personal spiritual journey and how … Continue reading “Sharing Our Spiritual Journeys”
Rev. Matt Alspaugh, PresenterMichael Swords and Kriss Gang, Service LeadersWiley Beveridge, Music When the world seems more disordered than ever, when life seems more challenging, more difficult, when hope is hard to find, maybe we can tap into hope’s near neighbor, possibility. “Why not?” is the question we might explore as we open to what … Continue reading “Opening to the Possibilities in Life”
Rev. Matt Alspaugh, PresenterCarol Johnson, Service Associate When Unitarian minister Rev. Norbert Capek created the flower service that we continue today, he asked people to bring flowers of their own choosing from their own gardens or from a field or roadside. The diversity of the flowers was important, for it symbolized our diversity, and how … Continue reading “Such Diversity of Color and Form” – The Flower Service”
Presenters: Rev. D’Vorah Kelley and Joyce Kinnear Musician: Wiley Beveridge The Earth is forever turning, bringing us the seasons. Join us to celebrate the arrival of Spring through song, readings and meditation at this Spring Equinox. The equinoxes were seen as times of balance, beauty, and renewal. The spring equinox was associated with abundance and … Continue reading “A Celebration of Spring”
Rev. Matt Alspaugh, presenterMike Blanco, service leader There’s a Zen story about a man asks the great master Ikkyu to write him a teaching of great wisdom. With his brush Ikkyu writes just the word, “Attention.” Dissatisfied, the man asks, “is that all?” Ikkyu writes again, “Attention Attention.” The man grouses, “that doesn’t seem profound … Continue reading “Attention Attention Attention”
Service Associate: Priscilla Taylor Dr. Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Lifespan Research Foundation, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is author of ‘The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Study on Happiness’. This service will feature a … Continue reading “What Makes a Good Life?”
