Come celebrate the mystery and miracle of the season and beyond through carols, music, poetry, song, and community. Our annual candlelight service is a time for wondering, a time for singing, a time for holding the sacred with one another. This is a perfect time for new visitors and guests who wish to be with … Continue reading Heaven and Nature Sing: A Christmas Eve Celebration for All
All are welcome to join us in celebration of the season, a season of heart and hope. This year’s holiday concert features music both secular and sacred with vocal and bell choirs from both Tree of Life and Prairie Circle UU Congregations, TOL woodwind ensemble, and guest musicians. This is a joint worship service of … Continue reading Winter Holiday Concert: Of Heart and Hope
There is a powerful center of Life within each of us. Often called heart, inner mind, or spirit, this center brightens, expands, and enhances all that we are and do. To rest in this center is called “presence” — a dynamic source of healing for our wounds, resilience for our challenges, and empowering of our … Continue reading Presence Unwrapped- Gifts of Spirit
In this holiday season, we are surrounded with reminders to express ” Joy” , often in neon lights and big capital letters. However, joy is not always available on demand. How do we prepare space and room in our lives where joy can be present and invited? Join Chaplain Dave, our Tree of Life Choir, … Continue reading Making Room for Joy
Join us for our Winter Solstice Worship experience for all ages! We will welcome the longest night with poetry, music, song, dance, and drums. This participatory evening will rekindle our appreciation for the darkness, reconnect us to the Web of all existence, and prepare us for the return of the light. Our presence in this … Continue reading Kindling the Embers of Presence; Solstice Service
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
