In writing about life and death and being here for “The Time Being,” Annie Dillard wrote, “Ours is a planet sown in beings. Our generations overlap like shingles. We don’t…
Sermons
Mother's Day When I was in my twenties and thirties, starting out as a father, no one ever told me that parenting would be easy. Still, never in my wildest…
Opening Words: “For a New Beginning” by John O’Donohue. In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you…
Responsive Reading In celebrating life, we must celebrate the earth. This essential element provides the foundation from which all things grow. It provides the bedrock for our very being. We…
Easter Sunday Opening Words: by retired UU minister Dick Gilbert, A tomb is no place to stay, Be it a cave in the Judean hills Or the dark cave of…
Opening Words: Meaning of Compassion gathered by Nina Todor The English noun, compassion, means to suffer together-with, it is derived from Latin. The prefix “com” equates to “with.” “Passion” is…
Opening words by Marta Flannagan In this time we turn our thoughts to how we can: Touch and be touched, Love and be loved, Forgive and be forgiven, Heal and…
Opening Words: An Irish Blessing May the blessing of the rain be on you— the soft sweet rain. May it fall upon your spirit so that all the little flowers may…
OPENING WORDS A Friend Who Cares (Henri Nouwen) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those…
Opening words: Albert Einstein, “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and…
