Saturday

Inspiration:

A boulder cannot imagine what it would mean to become part of a beach.

 

Prayer 101

by Forrest Church, Minister Of All Souls Church (Unitarian Universalist) in New York City from 1978 until his death in 2009

Prayer is the art of listening. Reverent attention to something unites us with it. Distraction divides, fragmenting us. Salvation and sin are much the same. Salvation: wholeness, health, healing — all words stemming from the same root — occurs in this lifetime when we are at peace with ourselves, united with one another, and at one with God. Sin is a state of brokenness. It exists when we are consumed by preoccupations and distractions, inattentive to the needs of others, at war with ourselves and the world. MORE

 



Friday

Inspiration:

He halted in the wind, and, what was that

Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there bringing March against his thought,
And yet too ready to believe the most.

‘Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,’ I said;
And truly it was fair enough for flowers
had we but in us to assume in March
Such white luxuriance of May for ours.

We stood a moment so in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year’s leaves.

— Robert Frost

Rev. Meg: Forgiveness and Brokenness

“…and one day, I realized: I don’t know why she doesn’t like me!”



Thursday


broken pottery heartInspiration:

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. –Albert Camus

 

 


“Friend”

by Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts

Water, shelter, food … and a friend. A friend can save your life.

Rev. Dan Kane was cooking, I was washing, and what happened next was definitely my fault, although he says “we” broke it. Drying on the counter was a hand-painted platter that Dan and Darin had brought home from Italy, a large, expensive piece of pottery with significant sentimental value. And “we”—that is, I—somehow unsettled it and it dropped like a little bomb onto their kitchen floor, shattering into shards and dust with a c-r-a-s-h. I couldn’t believe it…. MORE