Sundays: 12 noon (CT) in-person and online
We can be cheerleaders for simple joys (even when we don’t share them) and compassionate about the fact that we’re all just trying to survive. Thank you for our capacity to be comforted, dazzled, and delighted by harmless pleasures and small joys.
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?”
Alicia Knox: Presenter– Greg Kemp: Service Associate — As a story doula and photographer, Alicia believes it is essential we preserve our life stories before they’re lost forever. Through a multimedia presentation featuring the Project Somos Children’s Learning Village in Guatemala, she will share where her inspiration for preserving stories came from. She will talk … Continue reading “Why Our Stories Matter”
Presenter: Richard Clarke, Service Associate: Carol Johnson. Discover the hidden wisdom of the Gospel of Mary, a text suppressed for centuries, and explore its deep resonance with the teachings of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi. This talk reveals a path that bypasses dogma and hierarchy—pointing inward instead. Includes reflections especially relevant for Unitarian Universalists and all … Continue reading “Forbidden Knowledge: The Gospel of Mary and the Path Within”
Presenter: Rev. Matt Alspaugh Service Associate: Dee Dee Camhi It has been said, “Joy is the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” How is it that joy can accompany other emotions, like pain, sadness, deep sorrow? Or conversely, that we can be so filled with joy that we are brought to tears? There is … Continue reading “Tears of Joy”
Presenter: Greg Kemp Service Associate: Tim Boeve What is the Greatness of the human being, and how can we activate, develop, and live It on a daily basis? What does it really mean to be perfectly imperfect and how can we apply Love in a tangible way that benefits oneself, those around us, and the … Continue reading “Living the Greatness That You Are”
Presenter: Rev. Tim Boeve Service Associate: Heidi MacLennan Our world today is filled with harm, seemingly, of late, getting worse by the day. Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön says that one anecdote to not causing harm to ourselves, and others is through mindfulness. The Rev. Tim Boeve will explore tried and true ways of not causing … Continue reading “A Better Way of Being”
Presenter: Rev. D’Vorah Kelley Guest Speaker: Anrea Sandler Service Associate: Sandy Wallin “The challenging thing becomes, not to look for miracles, but finding where there isn’t one.” These words from “Everything is Holy Now” by Peter Mayer, who plays in Unitarian churches, offering up his non-religious spirituality through consistently compelling song. This song is the … Continue reading “Everything is a Holy Miracle”
Presenter: Rev. D’Vorah Kelley Service Associate: Priscilla Taylor Mary Oliver was a prolific award-winning poet before her death in 2019. Her poems often touch on spiritual topics like God and prayer, even though she rarely talked much about churches, official beliefs, or other things people often associate with religion. She became an unconventional spiritual teacher … Continue reading “Life, Death, and Everything In Between: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”
Presenter: Janice Kimball Service Associate: Carol Johnson Janice Kimball, author of numerous books and articles, will speak to us about the profoundly meaningful exercise of writing to discover the wholeness of who and what we are. Whether we write to communicate to others, or just to more deeply understand our own history and experiences, we … Continue reading “Writing from the Heart”
