Perfectionism
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Have you ever learned anything the hard way? You’re past it, right now, and, as you look back over your shoulder, you go, “Whoa! That was hard–and I learned so much.” If you’ve ever learned anything the hard way, say with me “OH YEAH” OH YEAH. Now maybe, this minute, you’re in the messy middle…
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Early one morning, goes the story, an old man went for a walk along a beach. Soon he spotted someone in the distance who seemed to be picking stuff up and throwing it into the sea. The person did it again and again. As the old man got close enough, he saw what was happening.…
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We gather together today as the song says: as a gentle, angry people. As people in grief. As people perhaps in despair. Because there are so many issues at play. So many. As Unitarian Universalist Association President Susan Frederick-Gray says, there are “all the many layers of devastating grief and anger that are present, that…
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“Let it be what you can’t yet imagine and wouldn’t orchestrate even if you could.” We heard Cheryl Strayed say that a moment ago, speaking as online advice columnist “Sugar” to someone angsting about the potential imperfections of her upcoming wedding. “There’s a day in July that’s a shimmering slice of your mysterious destiny. All…
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Thus reads one of the best-loved prayers of all: the Serenity Prayer. It is best-loved because it touches with refreshing frankness on the “something” in humanity that is…
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There is a song in Singing the Journey (the turquoise hymnal) that has been singing itself through me lately. The author is the great Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, member of Sweet Honey in the Rock: For each child that’s born, a morning star rises and sings to the universe who we are. We are our grandmothers’…
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