It’s always such a miracle to witness the resilience of Life as it manifests in the natural world — emperor penguins tending their eggs through the Antarctic winter, flowers growing out of rock faces, and monarch butterflies that migrate for 3000 miles. We too are a part of the natural world and Life imbues us … Continue reading Soul Matters at Tree of Life – Being a Community of Resilience
Sunday, February 9, 2020, 10:45am Lou Ness What are you afraid of? What stops you from having the life you hunger for? Everyone suffers or has suffered. Everyone has felt disappointment, regret and fear. Still, it is the willingness to allow those moments to shape and form our inner courage. The ways we choose to … Continue reading Resilience – The Stuff of Transformation
Sunday, February 2, 2020, 10:45am Gale Harris discusses three elements that help us to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and try again when we’ve been knocked down by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Our theme this month is resilience, and this is the first sermon in that series.
Beginning January 27th at 7:00 pm, Lou Ness is hosting a group for anyone interested in studying Karen Armstrong’s new book, “The Lost Art of Scripture.” The Armstrong book has been highly reviewed, well researched and offers a new way of considering the history and intention of the Scriptures. In the first meeting members will … Continue reading Book Study
Sunday, January 26, 2020, 10:45am George “Kaz” and Sue Kazlusky A sermon by our former interim minister Rev. Jennifer Slade,we examine the conflict between our need to be “perfect” and our innate human frailty.
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 10:45am Carol Alfus A sermon by Rev. Karen G. Johnson on white fragility and having the integrity to honestly acknowledge our resistance to the work of justice we say we believe in.
Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 12:30pm. Many from the congregation will be attending the Women’s March in Woodstock. We hope you will join us. Now is the time to raise our voices. You can see the poster with information here. You can RSVP on Facebook here.
Sunday, January 12, 2020, 10:45 Lou Ness, guest speaker The most important relationship in our lives is the one we have with ourselves. Right Relationship begins in that space between our heads and our hearts. Start the new year in that space of finding self.
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. (Wikipedia) For UU’s, any discussion of integrity is apt to … Continue reading Soul Matters at Tree of Life: Being a Community of Integrity
Sunday, January 5, 2020, 10:45am Rev. Michelle Lattanzio, guest speaker What does it mean to be a people of integrity? Integrity is not something that is inborn; it is learned (and re-learned, and refined) throughout our lives. Let’s explore together how integrity functions in our communities and ourselves.
