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Dear Star of Wonder

Dec 22, 2024

Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Spiritual Biography, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

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December 22, 2024, O Star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright, That’s from one of the Christmas carols so many of us sing in my time, which starts, We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts, traversing afar, field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star –which is you. And…
Sacredness in Stone

Nov 27, 2022

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One of the many stones I have taken from vacation spots sits on our West Shore altar right now. It’s from the shore of Lake Michigan, when I was still in seminary all of 20+ years ago. It’s sizeable, bigger than my fist, and it has a vein of quartz separating top from bottom. As…