It is not often we share/promote network programming. Let alone shows we’ve not even watched yet. However, this new series seems to be addressing some of the most important hidden topics experienced by the vast majority: the need for authentic connections, coping with hopelessness and depression, finding meaning in life, how every moment – every choice – matters and impacts others in often unforeseeable ways, facing our fears, and learning how to tend to the wounds in others while we heal our own hearts and minds. Here’s hoping the creators and producers are able to bring forward a show that opens the door for conversations about these things to be more freely spoken about.
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Perennial
May we be blessed to witness that which we have long ago planted, continue to bloom, year after year after year.
Mother’s Day 2018
Yesterday’s Mother’s Day I was pampered by my loves in the morning. They made me breakfast and served it to me in bed. The entire day was filled with relaxation and fun, in nature, with friends, with my loves, and with new family. Life on Lancey Street is beautiful. Our gardens are beginning to bloom, our children’s laughter can be heard in the air. Our friendships keep deepening and our circle keeps growing. Last night, after a day of all of us Moms being able to rest and simply enjoy the day, 17 of us gathered to share dinner together. Then at the end of the evening walked across the street to our homes, satisfied and happy. My wish for the world is that everyone is able to experience and live in this kind of beloved community. My wish is that everyone is able to love and be loved. And to let go of the tethers to anything that prevents this to come into being. There are reasons for which I will hold the telling of in other postings, but Yesterday’s Mother’s Day was a first. I have been a mother for 26 years. In all that time I have never once really celebrated Mother’s Day. Nor, been truly celebrated on Mother’s Day in such unequivocal ways by those who reside with me. Until yesterday. For this and a thousand more things, I am grateful. I accept this gift of change. I accept this time of loving and being loved.
Mothering on the Inside by Anna Huckabee Tull
My dear friend Anna Huckabee Tull‘s take on Mother’s Day.
“There is an oft-shared story in my family about a gentleman—a friend of the family, apparently—who pulled my grandmother aside when she was only five years old and attending the funeral of her very own mother who had just passed away from a prolonged illness. He handed my little-girl grandmother a mirror and invited her to look into it, asking her, ‘Do you see that face? Those eyes? Look carefully into that face, because that young girl you see in the mirror is someone you are going to need to look out for, to listen to, and to be a mother to. You are going to need to do it yourself, now. You are capable of this.’”
Click link below to read Anna’s full blog post
Spring Harvest
May the first blossoms of Spring inspire our hearts to open and embrace life.
May our tables be set to welcome all those peaceably seeking spiritual sanctuary.
Amen.
Like-Mindedness or Life Saving Ministry
DeReau K. Farrar, music at First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, found himself faced with questioning what kind of ministry he wants his to be:
“What pulls me toward church work? Is my service based in a desire to help people find a way toward abundant life, or is it based in my need to provide a venue for like-mindedness?”
He discovered that it is more than simply, “both/and.” Then he explains why!
I encourage you to read his reflection on the Braver/Wiser website.
“Come Sunday” now on Netflix
Dear Ones, Have you seen this movie “Come Sunday” now on Netflix? It tells the story of Bishop Carlton Pearson, a Pentecostal megachurch pastor who embraced Universalism and is now, along with the remnant of his former congregation, part of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, OK.
Cornel West in Maine
Tonight there is a sold out Cornel West lecture at Colby in Waterville.
Many of us remember his Ware Lecture at UUA GA 2015 in Portland Oregon where one of my favorite quotes of Cornel’s is “Justice is what Love looks like in public.”
Here is the video of that evening including opening music by some of our favorite UU Musicians. At about the 30 minute-mark Peter introduces Cornel: https://www.uua.org/multiculturalism/ga/ware-west
We are each other’s Christs – revisited
Pray. Wait. Trust.
Pray
Wait
Trust
Pray for Peace to find its way into your heart, into the world.
Wait with Perseverance as your companion in the dark still moments.
Trust that Love shall spread its wings in flight toward the spoken and unspoken desires of the heart even as it accompanies peace unto thy shoulders and surrounds the world in its beloved embrace.
Pray
Wait
Trust
written December 2016
Photo of Trees – March 2018 – Prince Edward Island, Canada