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What It’s Like to Walk the Labyrinth

Jan 15, 2023

Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

dhyana mudra, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., embodied spirituality, labyrinth, PTSD, William Wordsworth

What it’s like to walk the labyrinth. What it was like when I walked it, as quite a few of you did with me this past January 1st here at West Shore. Let me describe it in present tense, to more vividly bring the past into the here-and-now moment. Easing into it, honestly–honestly–I find myself…
Sacredness in Stone

Nov 27, 2022

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

astrology, Black Stone, Chartres Cathedral, crystal healing, Francis David, Gobekli Tepe, Henry David Thoreau, labyrinth, Spirituality, Stonehenge, Uluru, Wailing Wall, Walden Pond, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

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…
Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing True

Sep 15, 2019

Aging and Staging, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

Erik Erikson, Generativity, Hero myth, Joseph Campbell, labyrinth, Psychosocial development

I hope there is no adult in this space who underestimates the importance of gifts of time to children. Even the seeming smallest can become a memory that lasts forever. Several summers in a row, I stayed with my father’s parents. Since we’re Ukrainian, I called them Baba and Dido. One lazy Saturday, I came…

labyrinth

What It’s Like to Walk the Labyrinth

Sacredness in Stone

Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing True