The medium places her hand on the raging woman’s head, “You have to remember; you have to remember! You told me what you wanted for your life, for your children’s lives, you must fight for yourself from the inside.” It is the only redemptive scene in the movie in so many ways. I hate scary […]
Gardening & Conferences
“Gardening has been profoundly transformative. It has taught me more than I’ve ever known about co-creation, trust and the joy of playful experimentation.” (Meg Riley, Senior Minister, Church of the Larger Fellowship) Have you started your garden this year? Mine is just starting to take shape, in a new corner of the yard, plied with […]
Hope
“Universalism was born out of the new humanity;it is the gospel of the new heaven and the new earth.It throbs with hope. It was part of the great world movement to reinterpretlife in terms of a regenerated, buoyant, self-assertive human nature.” – Clarence Skinner (1915) Gun control legislation failed, the sea is rising, the middle East […]
Visioning
How do we create space in our lives for something new to emerge? So often we hold on to the familiar for fear that we will lose something. The other day I was thinking about friends who were instrumental in my life during a specific time. As I sat reminiscing, I realized I was smiling. My […]
Universal Love: A Conversion Experience
In his December post in Quest for Meaning, the publication of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, a UU Congregation Without Walls, Prof. Mark Morrison-Reed writes about a conversion experience of his own: “Listening to Gordon McKeeman talking about the ‘Persistence of Universalism’ I got it. This was a religion of radical and overpowering love. Universal […]
Conversion
“Spiritual discernment is to choose between available options on the grounds that both are good but that one is more likely at this time… Detachment from the idea that there is only one way for me to go through life joyfully is its key.” How humans adapt to change is on the forefront of my […]
Let It Find You
In the Tao there is a saying somewhat to the effect of “Let Peace/God/Love find you.” It corresponds in my mind to the idea of “Be Still and Know.” So often it seems as though we forget to slow down enough to experience the (connected) Self. I had been reminded of this idea by a simple […]
“Our playing small doesn’t serve the world.” – Marianne Williamson, from Return to Love
Ferry Beach is a place where transformation happens. Some of us learn a new skill, change our minds about the way we see something, or meet someone who forces us to show up in the world differently. Some of us sit on the beach and somewhere between the work we have done in the conference and the rhythm […]