Gratitudes and Goodbyes
There are few more difficult things than leaving beloveds, but it is above all a time for gratitude. Help us say good-bye well through your participation in Rev. Erin’s final online service with UU Utica.
There are few more difficult things than leaving beloveds, but it is above all a time for gratitude. Help us say good-bye well through your participation in Rev. Erin’s final online service with UU Utica.
This service will feature ministers and musicians from Ithaca, Syracuse, Binghamton, Utica, Oneonta, Cortland, Watertown, and Athens, PA as we reflect on the power of gratitude to heal us in challenging times.
Too often, healing is taken for granted. A cut will heal on its own. Heartbreak will lessen over time. But, does it? How can we engage the work of healing ourselves, our relationships, our community?
How do we keep our heart and head in balance? Janet is a former member of UUU, a retired CPA and was ordained as an Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in 2015 after many years of spiritual study. She now serves on the … read more.
It is impossible to know what will have happened in the week before this service. Our service will create a space for whatever has happened, to hold emotions in sacred space, to wonder into the future, and to ground ourselves in the Love that is … read more.
Patrick Johnson is known throughout Utica and the Mohawk Valley as a leader in matters of racial justice and his workshops on race are well known for opening and changing minds. He has worked as a consultant on race relations and gun violence since 2001. … read more.
The fourth principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association is “A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” The basis of the search is in listening, to our own hearts, to others, and for the meaning that surrounds us.
We work toward building Beloved Community and practice radical inclusion, we must open our hearts to the stories around us. On this National Coming Out Day, let us listen to the stories from LGBTQ+ members of our congregation and UUs. Each of us may learn … read more.
Alma Lowry is an Environmental Attorney and Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Hamilton College and represents the Onondaga Nation in their long standing quest for the remediation and protection of Lake Onondaga which was designated a superfund site by the EPA in 1994. She will … read more.
All of us have made promises and vows, to ourselves, to our families, our spouses, our friends, even our faith. Those promises sometimes lose their strength within us. This morning, let us remember our promises, and let us renew them.