“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?
“May we have the courage to be real—bare seams, imperfections, tears, warts and all. May this be the place where we love one another into all of our realness, all of our humanity.” -Teri Schwartz
How do you find the courage to be real?
