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For those who cannot make it in person to services, we offer livestreaming via YouTube. See this week’s service announcement directly below with the link. (Click on the picture.)
Sunday morning service videos can be accessed at your convenience on our Worship page or YouTube channel.
Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is Sunday, April 21st at 9am. CLICK HERE for more information.
Join Rev. Craig for Thursday Tea Time on Zoom! 4pm the weeks he is in the pulpit. CLICK HERE to find the link.
April 21st, 10:30am
In person & livestreamed
Community and Renewal: A Multigenerational Celebration of Passover and Earth Day
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano and Michelle McKenzie-Creech, CDFM
The celebrations of Passover and Earth Day aren’t as separate as one might imagine, for the Jewish festival had its origins in harvest rituals associated with the emergence of Spring, and both involve communal gatherings with promises made for an interdependent future. This morning, all ages will profit from the lessons of the seasons of the Earth.
Music by Dr. Louise Chernosky, UU Singers
April 21st, 9am
Community Room
Music Reading 102!
Elaine Held, Music Director Emerita
I will review what I taught at the dialog in September, Music Reading 101, and answer any lingering questions you may have, then move on to more facets of music reading and music singing. I will present and use music from our own hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, for examples you would encounter in a Sunday morning service. I’ll also have a handy hand-out.
Elaine Held has Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College, Princeton. She has been a piano, organ, and voice teacher, as well as a choir director her whole career. Although she is retired, she still keeps busy playing the piano or organ, and directing Sister Singers and the Cedar Village Chorus.
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April Monthly Theme: INTERDEPENDENCE
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt….The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways [others have] suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connects us.
When members of the Native American Blackfoot tribe meet each other, they don’t ask “How are you?” Instead, they ask “How are the connections?”
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass.” It’s always about critical connections.
I wish the knowledge were easier to come by, that individualism is just a scam, that you are always the butterfly wings. You are always a flap of the storm….You must not believe the lying lie that you do not matter, that whatever change you can organize is so insufficient as to not be worth your time…
Weed, it is you with your bad reputation that I love the most. Teach me not to care what anyone has to say about me. Help me to be in the world for no purpose at all except for the joy of sunlight and rain. Keep me close to the edge where every wild thing begins.
If you find yourself…hearing, again, the earth’s great, sonorous moan that says…all you love will turn to dust….Do not raise your small voice against it….Instead, curl your toes into the grass….Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you.
I’ve come to believe…we already know our oneness with each other, so the process of coming to consciousness….is a process.
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
