UUSRF Musing, May 15, 2025
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Musings, April 1, 2025
We are following the Soul Matters curriculum this year. May’s theme is IMAGINATION. Imagination’s great gift is “improvement”. At least that is what we’re taught. Its deep magic lies in the way it can reshape our reality. We are urged to imagine the world we dream of. A world with more justice. More peace. More love.
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Musings, April 24, 2025
We are following the Soul Matters curriculum this year. April’s theme is JOY. Submissions for the UU Musings section are welcome. Send essays, poems, songs or other writings to annleake001@gmail.com. These can be original works or pieces by other authors that you enjoy and want to share with our community.
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Musings, April 3, 2025
Eleanor Rice was the minister at UUSRF in the 1990s and early 2000s. This excerpt is from the March 2003 UUSRF newsletter when the US was contemplating a war with Iraq. Its message is still relevant. Think Eternally, Live Now This is such an uncertain time. I don’t know what the situation will be by
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Musings, March 27, 2025
WE BELONG TOGETHERDriving one day in the city, I sawin a library window a sign reading WE BELONG TOGETHER. A warm hand, a hand of human language, reached upto touch my heart. It was as if some split-offlost side of myself had spoken. What Eros in the story those three words tell. Imagine if we took
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UU Musings: Reflections on a UU Community
The Grout By Marcus Liefert The Unitarian Universalist congregation where I served as an intern made a mosaic Tree of Life the summer before I arrived. Congregants of all ages came together to craft the tree’s leaves, using bits and pieces of broken ceramics, jewelry, glass, and stone. There are many precious personal items in the tree, including
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UU Musings 3-6-2025
This poem was part of the service on Trust on March 2. Out of the flames of fearWe rise with courage of our deepest convictionsto stand for justice, inclusion and peace Out of the flames of scrutinyWe rise to proclaim our faithWith hope to heal a fractured and hurting world Out of the flames of
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Musing, February 13, 2025
School of the World By Maureen Ash Late evening the car hits ice ona curve, slides toward the chasm butthere’s gravel, the tires grab,you breathe, drive home, carrygroceries in under the moon’s thinsilver feather, sweet winter cold fresh as water on your face. You have been a disappointment, youfailed, left an essential task undone, caused harm, it is too
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UU Musing, 2-6-2025
February’s Theme: Inclusion – UUSRF is following the UUA curriculum Soul Matters this year. Each month has a theme and accompanying resources which will be reflected in Sunday programs and in the newsletter. The following poem seems appropriate for the current times.
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