“The Human Need for Approval”
Realize that the need for approval is a very human and healthy desire—just not at the cost of your integrity and your authentic Self
Topic: Growth
“Daring to Dance”
03-10-2024 Tools for overcoming difficult or crisis situations can be met with possibilities, gratitude, help from others, courage and joy.
“Let it Begin With Me”
What is it that we dream about? What have we given up on? How might we use this time and this life in the best possible way for ourselves and the wider world?
“The Other “G” Word”
How might we incorporate gratitude into our daily lives? How can gratitude help us create a ripple effect of good will that can help transform our relationships, communities, and world?
The Myth of Normal
What have we normalized in our culture that causes trauma to the human spirit? What actions can we UUs take for our individual and collective spiritual well being?
When One Door Closes . . .
Many of us are likely familiar with the expression, “When one door closes, another opens.” But what do we think about it? Is it an overly-optimistic way of dealing with setbacks and loss? Or, is there a kernel of truth in it for spiritual seekers like us Unitarian Universalists?
Living between The Rock and The Hard Place
Marc Mullinax returns with some guiding thoughts through our chaotic maze of choices, hardened positions, hatreds, and seemingly intractable, impossible situations.
Be Like Francis
This Sunday, bring your well-behaved furry, feathered, finned, or scaled animal companion (or a photo) to our own! And let’s explore ways we might “be like Francis” and advocate for the most vulnerable among us.
Letting Go, Getting Free
How might we each, in the words of Christian theologian and ethicist Lewis Smedes, practice the notion that “to forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”?
What If Surrender and Resistance Danced in Harmony?
She shares observations of other thinkers, along with her own questions, relating to observing with curiosity our instincts to relax into or push against parts of our lives.