“It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong - or feel abandoned;
if you know despair
or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need to change you;
if you can look back with firm eyes
saying "this is where I stand."

~ David Whyte

"This is what Unitarian Universalist lay people and ministers can create together: Communities that invite us to pull up a chair or a piece of carpet, or sit on a beach, or in front of a campfire and tell our stories, share our lives, so that we remember that we are immersed together in the human condition, remember that this side of fear, we can find no rational basis to deny connection to each other, the many others, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters all.

Each of us is called. Each of us must find our Yes. Each of us has a ministry, our own piece of the world to make whole. All our ministries are worthy, and all are needed. The world is in desperate need of every ministry that embodies our values."

~ Gini Courter

What will hold us? What will ground us?...as we go forward.

~ Rev. Dr. Nana' Kratochvil

Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

~ Mary Oliver

The thing is to love life,
to love it even when you have no stomach for it,
and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it…
Then you hold life like a face between your palms,
a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you again.

~ Ellen Bass

A multigenerational service.

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