You know that old expression, “You can’t get there from here”? Well, Rev. Tony’s sermon this Sunday will suggest that maybe you can’t even get HERE from here! That is, it is necessary to journey somewhere else before you can know where you already were. Or, as the poet T. S. Eliot once put it:We … Continue reading You Can Only Get Here from There
In offering her response to the election polarization and noise, the Sikh activist Valerie Kaur has said “We have to find a way to live together still. The only way we will birth a multiracial democracy is if we hold up a vision of a future that leaves no one behind, not even our worst … Continue reading Wholeness and Healing
Generosity connects us to one another through both generous giving and generous receiving. A reimagined generosity, a spirit of reciprocity, changes and transforms us and may even help create a grace-filled world. Join Chaplain Dave, our combined Prairie Circle and Tree of Life congregations, and our shared choirs as we celebrate, learn, and grow together. … Continue reading From You I Receive, To You I Give
The field of restoration ecology provides intentional principles, practices, and processes for recovery, repair, and healing damaged and degraded ecosystems. Can we apply similar principles to human ecosystems, to our lives, and to our communities? Join Chaplain Dave and our Tree of Life community as we explore restoration and repair of our selves, our spirit, … Continue reading Lessons from Restoration Ecology
This week we are invited to explore what has been woven together to create a tapestry of who we are as individuals and community. Within this interconnectedness, adversity and conflict may occur, which may cause need for repair. Using the metaphor of a tapestry, let us consider: Where are the threads loose or stretched thin? … Continue reading Repairing Our Tapestry
Soul Matters for October on Deep Listening states, “Listening to your inner voice is obviously about trying to hear a message. But the often less obvious (but just as crucial) part is deciding what metaphor to use to describe that inner voice. Or to put it another way, how we envision our inner voice significantly … Continue reading ’tis all one to me
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg reminds us, “ Your life is a sacred text. It can be read in so many ways”. In this month of exploring deep listening, how do we listen to our own lives as sacred text, as sacred messenger? Join Chaplain Dave and our Tree of Life community as we explore the interconnections … Continue reading Listening to Our Lives
What a difference it can make for another person, when we just listen……when we really listen…… setting aside our opinions and our advice, to kindly receive the heart of another. What a difference heart listening can make in our own life……to welcome the messages our heart wants us to hear. Join us for a worship … Continue reading Heart Listening- A Gift to Share!
In this worship service created with input from our Tree of Life Welcoming Renewal Team and our Tree of Life Worship Committee, we engage in listening to each other as well as voices from history, as we consider and shape our present and future. In honor of LGBTQ+ history month, Chaplain Dave and our Welcoming … Continue reading Listening to our Past, Listening to our Present, Listening for our Future
How we chose to wait may define how we live our lives. Though our world encourages us to believe we never have to wait, waiting is perhaps the one activity that allows us to claim our humanity. In those moments when something demands we stop, are we given the chance to be our best selves? … Continue reading The Art of Waiting
