I was seven years old when I had my first encounter with theology. My mother made a batch of fudge, placed it in the refrigerator and decreed, “Don’t touch until after supper. And just because I’m not here,” she said, “don’t think you are alone with the fudge. God is watching you.” The word “theology” … Continue reading As If God Were There
Do you remember RuPaul’s hit Supermodel? RuPaul is the fantastic drag star who famously promotes self-love and igniting your spark within. He knows doing it is tough but possible. He puts it this way, “Look at me–a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can be beautiful, so can you.” … Continue reading Wisdom to Love Yourself
In the midst of this presidential season we are stunned by impeachment and primaries. I recall a simpler time when a general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, defeated a Unitarian Universalist, Adlai Stevenson. Then as now folks asked, “What will happen next?” Here is the video of the reflection and sermon “I Like Ike“
Our children teach us about creativity is that life’s waiting room is really a playground if we persist in having a perspective of playfulness. Practical Creativity is playful persistence. Practical creativity has its being and its power in the way we move among the everyday events of our living, the way we move from obstacles … Continue reading Practical Creativity
What our children teach us about creativity is that life’s waiting room is really a playground if we persist in having a perspective of playfulness. Spiritual Creativity is about being like children with their toys. We must be willing to turn our pain and problems upside down and look at them anew; we must be … Continue reading Spiritual Creativity
Use it up; wear it out, make do; do without. That’s the mantra of my New England upbringing. I am a native of New Hampshire which prides itself as being the most frugal place in the country. The motto on New Hampshire’s license plates is often mistaken as a patriotic slogan, when, in fact, the … Continue reading Use It Up
MLK Jr. urged UU’s in his 1964 Ware Lecture to wake up and stay woke. He talked about Rip Van Winkle. We remember that Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years. When he went up to bed the sign on the Inn had a picture of King George III of England. When he came down, the … Continue reading Woke
Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards wanted to go to the 1988 Winter Olympics and compete as a ski jumper. There were a couple of obvious problems with this. He was about 20-pounds heavier than the average ski jumper, he had no sponsor and his trainers spoke languages that he could not understand. But sometimes, you just … Continue reading The Integrity of Your Future Self
Finding work with integrity and commitment is never easy, but throw eternal damnation and social rejection into the mix and the vocation becomes near impossible. Nobody knew this better than the Sin Eater, a spiritual healer who operated in England, Scotland, and Wales from the Middle Ages all the way up to the early 1900s. … Continue reading Integrity and Commitment are Dangerous
Join us on Christmas Eve for our traditional service of lessons and carols, followed by hot chocolate and cookies in the Parish Hall.
