Daily Compass

recognize the good you’ve done
and know love radiates

revel in the person you’re becoming
and know you are remarkable

remember your past
and know growth is rebirth

realize there will be setbacks
and know to trust your resilience

reflect on your mistakes
and know insight is rewarding

review your bad habits
and know they bend to your resolve

reveal your good habits
and know there’s joy in rhythm

revitalize your love of community
and know it’s rational to rejoice

reflect on your still, small voice
and know you are renewed

-Timothy (a CLF member incarcerated in New York)

Know that you are remarkable today.

“One of the things I love about this tradition is that our faith is covenantal and not confessional—meaning that to some degree, our tradition cares little about what you stand up and say you believe. The evidence of your Unitarian Universalism is embodied in the depth of your relationships: how do you live in relationship to self and other?” -Takiyah Nur Amin

How do you live in relationship to self and others? How does that reflect what you say you believe?

“We yearn. We yearn for renewal because sometimes we feel like a piece of dried cardboard. We need renewal: a renewal of faith, a renewal of hope, a renewal of joy. I’ll tell you that lately I’ve been right there—dried cardboard, ready to be blown away.” -Matthew Johnson, from “A Renewal of Faith”

How do you find renewal?

“It is not always easy to find love at the center.
So for today we gather in covenant to celebrate the reality
that love is at the core of our beings
and that love will guide us if we open ourselves
to the challenges which love requires of us.”-Esther Hurlburt

How are you guided by love today?

“But when I am here at the edge of creation, breaking with the small tide over the sand, the need to do good rolls away; the question of what is right diminishes to insignificance and is easily borne away by the tiny waves. Here, where no words are spoken, none are misspoken…. I stand somewhere between truth and vision, and what I don’t know ceases to embarrass me, because what I do know is that the water feels gentle like a lover’s touch, and the sand welcomes it.” -Elizabeth Tarbox

Where have you had experiences of having your personal insecurities melt into the embrace of something larger?