This month, we transition from celebrating the awe and wonder around us to instead focus on cultivating and engaging with that wonder within; we focus on finding our center. The greatest wisdom we can garner often does not come from our surroundings, but from our core.  This Sunday, we reflect on wise teachings of various faith traditions.  As we learn from our…

Christmas Eve sermon

In the time of the winter solstice, we celebrate a pause that results in the return of sunlight. We honor an awakening from rest, ushering in a new season of energy following a time of rest and introspection.  During Hanukkah, we celebrate the candle flame that kept faith alive.  Throughout this period of the shifting of daytime and of the Festival of…

We are but a flicker in the expanse of our awe-filled universe, held together with all that was and all that ever will be by the stardust in our veins. We can only live this short life because we die, and that makes each moment and each experience all the more remarkable. This Sunday, we join together in wonder of life and in reverence of death.

As the temperature drops and nature hibernates, many enter a time of awe and wonder. What about this season evokes those sentiments?  In reflecting on these months of short days and long nights, we pause to recreate in our adult lives the innocent, inquisitive wonders of childhood. In experiencing awe in this revitalized way, we are offered ways to reconnect to all we hold sacred. We have the opportunity…