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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.

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Love Abundant

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.

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The Hard Work of Healing

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?

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In The Afterwards

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.

Listen for Truth

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.

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Stories Call Us Forward

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.

Promise Again, and Again

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.

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