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What shapes us, guides us, and provides us valuable wisdom, and what serves to break us down? We each hold close our personal histories, shaped and molded by death, illness, regrets, mistakes, love, and lessons learned. This Sunday, we are invited to engage with the experiences we hold within us, grappling with those questions of what to hold close and what to release.
Loneliness is pervasive. We may experience periods when, even if surrounded by people, our insides yearn for something beyond the emptiness we may feel. We are called to find the answer within ourselves, loving and connecting with our core. We are called towards fullness and wholeness as we orient ourselves towards our own unique spirituality. This Sunday, we explore escaping loneliness and fostering healing as we first turn inward, cultivating the strength to turn outward.
By Rev. Jane Smith at Channing Memorial Church
To take these narratives of fear or distain and instead re-shape these single stories into complex stories of faith, culture, abuse, and love. To connect with our own faith of Unitarian Universalism and see the inherent worth in each and every person. To connect with our Universalist roots, a people of faith who understood each person to be loved by God and saved to heaven. Let us connect to the Unitarians whose faith called them to see the intrinsic goodness in each person. To see the complexity of a life-giving narrative, instead of the simple, easily digestible, single-stories we are each surrounded with.