Contemplation Tuesday
May beings all live happily and safe. ~ The Buddha Unitarian Universalists may engage in prayer, meditation, silent contemplation, worship, and other types of spiritual practice as individuals or...
View ArticleD is for Difference
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. ~ M. Scott Peck D is for Difference enriching our lives where lifestyles are many and openness thrives. DIFFERENCE. In many religions, everyone...
View ArticleContemplation Tuesday: To Serve
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ~ Thomas Merton...
View ArticleCovenant Words
A covenant made … should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.Russell M. Nelson Unitarian Universalists (UUs) use the term “covenant” a lot, almost as much as they say “congregational...
View ArticleE is for Equal
Virtue can only flourish among equals. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft E is for Equal: where women and men Can listen and speak, and say “No!” or “Amen” … EQUAL Within Unitarian Universalism women and men are...
View ArticleHOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME?
Unitarians Represent Many Religions. I have been an official Unitarian Universalist for 6 months now. I go to our services every Sunday (except the one the day after I broke my foot or the occasional...
View ArticleDreamland: Adventures in Sleeping
Sleep is the best meditation. ~ Dalai Lama One morning recently, I slept until 8:30. It felt so good to wake up naturally, rather than being awakened by an alarm or my spouse or cats climbing on me....
View Article5 Small Things
1. There are pleasures for keeping as enjoying, — for using delicately, the zest lasting long, the more affluent when tasted with moderation and seldom. Amos Alcott (Unitarian, educator, reformer,...
View ArticleRead With Me..
Read With Me Fall doesn’t have to mean more serious reading, following as it does the summer tradition of beach reads, still I do find more non-fiction choices on my bed stand. I read Mary Pipher’s The...
View ArticleLiving Our Principles
My husband works in one of the university’s buildings near downtown Fargo. Since the building opened, there have been many occasions when homeless people attempt to shelter in the building, especially...
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