Speaker: Rev. Rudra Dundzila

Awe (Soul Matters)

Have you noticed the gift of it all? Have you noticed the miracle that is you?

Children’s Program
This week, we are exploring the goose bumps found in generosity. As we do that, we will have the chance to lift up that December is the season of gift-giving, thinking of others, serving needs greater than our own. Along the way, we will highlight how generosity and kindness are central to all the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Earth-centered) and cultural traditions (Kwanza) that have a holiday this month. The Living Our Values activity will lift up our shared value of Generosity, which calls us to “freely and compassionately share our faith, presence, and resources”.

Love Within Me (UUA Common Read, Love at the Center)

“Love calls forth our best selves and invites us back, again and again, to attend to our personal pain. In this Love, we find a sanctuary where our armor can be pierced by our pain, allowing the softness of the heart to heal us.” – “Love as a Call to Action,” Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, Love at the Center

Children’s program:
All month long, we are exploring the theme of Healing. This week, we are looking at the hurt that arises from seeing your life as “a glass half empty,” and how we can heal this through gratitude. As we do that, we will have the chance to focus on Thanksgiving, and its invitation to pause and give thanks. The Living Our Values activity will lift up our UU Value of Generosity, and its call to “cultivate a spirit of gratitude.”

Healing (Soul Matters)

How do we heal together? How do we heal the past?

Children’s program:
All month long, we are exploring the theme of Healing. This week, we are looking at the hurt that arises from seeing your life as “a glass half empty,” and how we can heal this through gratitude. As we do that, we will have the chance to focus on Thanksgiving, and its invitation to pause and give thanks. The Living Our Values activity will lift up our UU Value of Generosity, and its call to “cultivate a spirit of gratitude.”

“Exploring the Rings of Love (UUA Common Read, Love at the Center)”

This year’s UUA Common Read is Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies, edited by the Unitarian Universalist Association president Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt. Instead of an adult Spiritual Exploration book discussion this year, we’ll have an interactive sermon series to explore the many facets of love.
The Rings of Love model offers five lenses for noticing how Love moves in our lives: the Love within me of inner spiritual life, the Love between us of close relationships, the Love among us of congregational life, the Love beyond us of our public presence and justice work, and the Love holding all that is ground of our being. All are happening at once, and experience travels inward and outward like a spiral, so that what happens in one sphere continually shapes and is shaped by the others.