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“And there is no greater gift to bestow on children than the gift of curiosity. Effective leaders, even great ones, accept that they don’t have all the answers. But they know how to ask the right questions" James E. Ryan, Wait, What?
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Over the years I've been asked scores of questions as a minister. I'll try to answer a few of them and perhaps challenge you for your answers as well
As Unitarian Universalists we love the questions, sometimes more than the answers. It can even be a form of mental illness. But what are the best questions? How do we narrow our focus to the most important interplay between questions and answers? Do our questions bring us to a place of calm and confidence that might empower us to move forward? Or do our questions jangle our nerves and leave us feeling like nothing we do will make any difference? And finally does the process work better some days than others? Dare we dream a cool, calm confidence?
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Although the pandemic has changed our world in so many ways, it hasn’t changed the fact that we must remained connected to our community. Yet, the pandemic has changed this relationship in one way though. Our connection to our communities has grown even more essential. The link that binds us must become less porous than perhaps ever before.
Rev. Jane Page explores the seventh principle, "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part," especially in this Time of Pandemic.
Are we doomed?
(We are working to improve sound quality on live remotes - stay tuned)
(We are working to improve sound quality on live remotes - stay tuned)
“Our seventh Principle may be our Unitarian Universalist way of coming to fully embrace something greater than ourselves." (Rev. Forrest Gilmore, Executive Director of Shalom Community Center, Bloomington, IN)
"Racism is a lot like greed, or jealousy, or hate; it is human, and it exists in all of us no matter our race, religion or social standing. What is important is what we do with these ego-driven urges to feel superior in some way to others. "
Jeff Davis,The Free Press, Maine
Links for further Study:
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/22/the-awakening-of-the-american-white-mind/
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/01/white-allies-dos-donts-racism-black-lives-matter-protest/
Jeff Davis,The Free Press, Maine
Links for further Study:
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/22/the-awakening-of-the-american-white-mind/
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/01/white-allies-dos-donts-racism-black-lives-matter-protest/
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Many of you know that Gary and Jana lived aboard a 44 foot sailboat prior to arriving at Hilton Head Island.
But long before that they were swimming with wild dolphins, sting rays, seals, manta rays, whales, providing dolphin-assisted therapy in the ocean, and studying the lesser-known properties of that magical life-creating, bio-computer substance commonly known as Water.
With all that draws our attention these days in the news, let us pause, take a deep dolphin breath of Love & Gratitude and take time to wonder at the Life processes that continually awaken us to higher levels of being. Buckle your cosmic seat belts and join us for an introduction to worlds within consciousness that will knock your sandals off and propel us into a more profound appreciation of Nature and all Her creatures. You’ll never take a drink of water or think of the ocean in the same way ever again!
But long before that they were swimming with wild dolphins, sting rays, seals, manta rays, whales, providing dolphin-assisted therapy in the ocean, and studying the lesser-known properties of that magical life-creating, bio-computer substance commonly known as Water.
With all that draws our attention these days in the news, let us pause, take a deep dolphin breath of Love & Gratitude and take time to wonder at the Life processes that continually awaken us to higher levels of being. Buckle your cosmic seat belts and join us for an introduction to worlds within consciousness that will knock your sandals off and propel us into a more profound appreciation of Nature and all Her creatures. You’ll never take a drink of water or think of the ocean in the same way ever again!