Dear Beloved Community, Our Soul Matters theme this month is inclusion. I couldn’t think of a better value to explore right now, particularly during “Side with Love” month. Inclusion- as something to strive towards in society, government, and corporate life- has been excoriated lately and it would be well to define what it is to … Continue reading February 2025

Dear Beloved Community, Tell me if you’ve heard this one… I’ve got a story for you… I heard that story, but I don’t believe it. This January we come to the theme of story, and of the ways in which stories shape our beliefs, our myths, and our calls to action. It seems to me … Continue reading January 2025

Dear Beloved Community, As we roll into the month of December, our attention settles on the spiritual value of presence. The warning we often get about the end of the year season of holidays and parties is that, with consumerism run rampant and heightened expectations for a time of merriment and gift giving, baking and … Continue reading December 2024

Dear Beloved Community, How easy it is to spin our own axis, self-absorbed even when we are not self-centered.  How much more difficult is it to practice the spiritual discipline of deep listening. Years ago, when I was doing my year of chaplaincy, I told my supervisor how I was finding it hard to still … Continue reading October 2024

Greetings, Beloved Community! What a historic and exciting time in the life of this community! At long last the dream has been realized and the next stage of your history can be made.  We can breathe deep and offer our deep gratitude to those who have made this new dawn come about, even in the … Continue reading September 2024

Greetings, beloved community. We are just on the cusp of a new era in the life of this community.  In any space defined by liminality, that sense of being neither here nor there, there will be things we need to keep, things we need to discard, and things we need to transform somewhat.  Our Unitarian … Continue reading August 2024

Ah, Vacation. Few things are more enticing than the prospect of vacation.  Whether that means taking a work break, visiting family, or being lucky enough to travel to a different location for sightseeing or sitting by the beach, we all dream of having more time to get away. At the heart of this human need … Continue reading June 2024

Dear Beloved Community, If you were to imagine one central location – one control room or operating center for all of creation – what would it be like?  What if there were controls and switches operated by unseen forces controlling everything?  I imagine that humans – though we have the most impact – would still … Continue reading May 2024

Dear Beloved Community, Our theme is Interdependence – another in our series of themes suggested by Soul Matters that are taken from the Article II Revision process. If you needed proof in recent years of the value of remembering our interdependence, you could easily start with the pandemic and the increasingly uncivil discourse of the … Continue reading April 2024

Dear Beloveds, A whiff of a whiff of spring is present in the air.  In prior years, I would take pictures of snow drops and crocuses.  This month, I am thinking about the processes of transformation, and how we fuel our own creativity and courage. An interesting article this past week in The New York … Continue reading March 2024