Stewardship
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“The morning wind forever blows,” says our Unitarian Universalist ancestor Henry David Thoreau in his classic book, Walden. “The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.” Thoreau is essentially saying we are already wealthy but that this wealth goes unrecognized. A big part of…
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Go back 2000 years ago. The Christian scriptures tell the story of a time when Rabbi Jesus tried to take a little time off from his ministry and retreated, with his disciples, to a site near the Sea of Galilee. But Jesus was beloved. And supremely fascinating. So, people couldn’t stay away. They ran ahead…
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Part 1 Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? In her amazing book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer wants to propose an answer which is not in sync with the Big Voice of dominant American culture. Her answer…
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Today we are talking about the spirituality of money, and, as with everything to do with spirituality, the temptation is to go straight to enlightenment. The temptation is to bypass the mistakes and the trial-and-error pathways and elevate instantly upwards to the God’s own truth. I’m stepping back from that temptation this morning. No spiritual…
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To serve can mean so many things. Kindness to someone you know, kindness to someone you don’t know. To be of use, to help, to make a contribution, to make a difference. To serve can mean so many things. And, all are called to serve. No matter who you are, your age, your collection of…
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Some years ago, writer Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker shared the story of his three-year-old daughter’s imaginary friend. The name she gave her imaginary friend was Charlie Ravioli, and Charlie Ravioli was always too busy to play. One day Adam Gopnik and his wife watched their little girl punch a number into her imaginary…
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To serve can mean so many things. Kindness to someone you know, kindness to someone you don’t know. To be of use, to help, to make a contribution, to make a difference. To serve can mean so many things. And because this is so, it gets to the point that a generic word like “service”…
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At times, I am asked about what Unitarian Universalists have in the way of scriptures. What’s our sacred text, what’s our holy book? What do you say to that, when you believe that truth is abundantly present in the world, comes from many sources, and never ends in its evolution? How do you bind something…
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