“This is the work of congregational life – to create and provide a real time and place in this world that opens our awareness of the world as it might be. It awakens us to the transformation already taking place within us and around us and strengthens our patience and determination to bring that transformation to fruition in the larger world. For as the maple tree invisibly produces sweetness within the fibers of its being, the world carries its own inner inclination toward justice and peace. May we then be willing to show up and do the work of tapping.” ~ Karen Hering
In our worship services for the month of April, we will explore together a central aspect of our mission as a faith community – Transformation. As we seek to transform ourselves and our world, what does this mean…really? We begin this Sunday with “Easter for Unitarian Universalists: We’re Not Sure What Happened…” We hope you will join us!
“This is the work of congregational life – to create and provide a real time and place in this world that opens our awareness of the world as it might be. It awakens us to the transformation already taking place within us and around us and strengthens our patience and determination to bring that transformation to fruition in the larger world. For as the maple tree invisibly produces sweetness within the fibers of its being, the world carries its own inner inclination toward justice and peace. May we then be willing to show up and do the work of tapping.” ~ Karen Hering This Sunday, March 29, the theme for our worship will focus on some of the perils unmindful communication. The sermon message for the morning is titled “Spreading the News”, a humorous multi-voiced dramatization of the downside of gossip, presented by the UUFCM Readers' Theatre and Friends. We hope you will join us!
Please plan to join us as we celebrate in worship the culmination of our annual stewardship drive.
“Your gifts—whatever you discover them to be—can be used to bless or curse the world. The mind's power, the strength of the hands, the reaches of the heart, the gift of speaking, listening, imagining, seeing, waiting—any of these can serve to feed the hungry, bind up wounds, welcome the stranger, praise what is sacred, do the work of justice, or offer love. And any of these can draw down the prison door, hoard bread, abandon the poor, obscure what is holy, comply with injustice or withhold love.
You must answer this question: what will you do with your gifts?” ~ Rebecca Parker “The feeling of awe emerges from experiences of the grandeur of life and the mystery of the divine. We happen upon a sense of inexpressible exhilaration at being alive and a sense of utter dependence upon sources of being beyond ourselves. This sense of awe and dependence should engender in us a discipline of gratitude, which constantly acknowledges that our present experience depends upon the sources that make it possible. The feeling of obligation lays claim to us when we sense our duty to the larger life we share. As we glimpse our dependence upon other people and things, we also glimpse our duty to them. This sense of obligation leads to an ethic of gratitude, which takes our experience of transcendence in the present and works for a future in which all relationships ”among humans, as well as between humans and the physical world” are fair, constructive, and beautiful.”
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