This note is making its way to you as I wrap up an overnight in New Hampshire for the UU Minister’s Association Northern New England Chapter spring “retreat” – this year a workshop on boundaries and self-differentiated leadership. And time, too, to connect … read more.
Greetings to you on a beautiful sunny day! I am trying to hold onto the joy of small things, like sunshine, amidst the ongoing horror of All The Things, in particular this week the unfolding situation in Iran and Lebanon and the … read more.
Best wishes to you each as we begin April! And can you believe that we are just days from Easter? It snuck up on me this year as it’s both early in the month and spring’s unfolding is slow. But the season of … read more.
May this note find you well on this Thursday morning!
I hope you were as uplifted and moved by our service last Sunday as I was – five rich reflections from members of our A2U2 community from each generation on how they each … read more.
In the coming day or so, based on the sighting of the new moon, Muslims in our Portland community and around the world will begin the celebration of Eid, marking the end to the holy season of Ramadan. As war unfolds in Iran … read more.
As always I hope this finds you healthy and well. Mud season has arrived here in southern Maine and it always has many lessons for us. What appears to be solid ground is not always so. We must endure some muck to get through … read more.
May this note find you well and enjoying the sunshine! These past few days of sun and the beauty of fresh snow have been a balm to my spirit as the heartbreak of our country and horrors of war abroad continue. There is … read more.
May this note find you well amidst these still-winter-but-spring-trying-to-emerge days! At my former congregation, in late February into March, my colleague and I would begin suggesting to one another while picking hymns and planning worship… “how about In the Bleak Midwinter?” A Christmas … read more.
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In lieu of a Between Sundays reflection this week, I have recorded a video message for you in honor of the spiritual lesson this day, Ash Wednesday, has to teach us: From dust we come, to dust we shall return.
In honoring … read more.
Before the snow and clouds this week, we had sunshine. And even with the snow, the light has shifted and it feels as though Earth is waking back up. My home gets South-facing light streaming through the windows in the morning, and earlier … read more.
