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June 7th, **9:30 AM**
In person and livestreamed on YouTube
Reminder: This service will begin at 9:30 AM
“Where Do the Mermaids Stand?”: A Service of LGBTQ+ Pride
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano
Ten years ago, when I was an intern minister at UUCMC, I gave a sermon that changed the course of my life, leading to a decade of academic work examining how congregations can be places of flourishing for “gender creative”—transgender, non-binary, gender nonconforming—people. As we begin Pride month, and in light of the many recent steps backwards the U.S. has taken on affirmation of gender fluidity, I thought I’d go back and revisit the themes of that first sermon in order to access hope for today.
Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director; Rev. Craig
The 34th Annual Statewide LGBTQ+ Pride Parade begins at 12:00 noon. Meet at 11:30 AM near the Asbury Municipal building parking lot to march in the parade heading south on Main Street. Look for a UUCMC sign.
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May Theme: AWAKENING CURIOSITY
My grandmother, an incredibly gifted, creative, if not eccentric woman, imparted me with these simple but powerful words. She said: “To be interesting, Kate, you have to be interested.” Curiosity not only makes the world interesting, it makes you interesting.
Each of us is shaped as much by the quality of the questions we are asking as by the answers we have it in us to give.
The ability to ask beautiful questions, often in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered. You just have to keep asking.
The opposite of anxiety is not calm, it’s not confidence. The opposite of anxiety is curiosity. Anxiety is worrying: OH NO What is going to happen? And curiosity is OH, WOW, I wonder what could happen?
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.
The best spiritual instruction is to wake up in the morning and say, “I wonder what’s going to happen today.”
If you want to know why you do something, stop doing it and see what happens.
Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.
People go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
