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Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is February 15th. CLICK HERE for more information.
February 15th, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed on YouTube
The Practice of Love
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano and Michelle McKenzie-Creech
Love is at the heart of our Unitarian Universalist tradition. Love is not just something we feel, but something we do. In this multigenerational service, we’ll celebrate love in action and welcome Rev. Craig back from sabbatical.
Music: Elaine Held, Music Director Emerita; Anthology Quartet
Anthology Quartet is an ensemble singing popular music in four-part, a cappella harmony. The quartet rehearses in Madison & Hamilton NJ and performs throughout the NY/NJ area. They are continually expanding their repertoire to create entertaining sets for a variety of audiences. Anthology is a registered quartet of Sweet Adelines International and affiliated with the 2019 Greater New York Region 15 Champion Liberty Oak Chorus of Howell, NJ.
February 15th, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
Advising Students in Trying Times
Kristen Rothrock Goodrich, Academic Advisor, Life Science Division, Rutgers University
In the last year, Kristin has witnessed her students struggle to deal with the chaotic and changing policies coming out of Washington. Her students’ resilience and tenacity in the face of extreme stresses have inspired her to protest and speak out. Kristin will share her experiences and her hope for the future.
Kristen Rothrock Goodrich was raised at UUCMC and was pleased to have returned for our Social Justice Forum. In her job, she provides support for students’ emotional, academic, and social well-being. She is married and the mother of a son in middle school and a daughter attending University College of Dublin.
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February Theme: EMBODYING RESILIENCE
Sure grit and resilience mean pushing through against all odds. But sometimes being able to say, “I quit,” and to actually quit, takes grit. It takes resilience. Sometimes withstanding adversity looks like withdrawing from certain activities. Sometimes pushing through looks like pulling out.
Observing the water teaches me [that] Resilience isn’t trying to hold on to all you have been and somehow get through. It is the flow of water that responds to its environment and even changes its form, yet never changes its fundamental nature.
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us..
If you see successes and failures as being placed in your path to teach you things, you are more likely to be psychologically hardy and therefore more resilient in the face of trauma.
Resilience is really a secular word for what religion was trying to say with the word faith. Without a certain ability to let go, to trust, to allow, we won’t get to any new place.
Here’s the real kicker. The people who break free from their past aren’t the ones who never made mistakes; they’re the ones who stopped identifying with those mistakes.
Falling into grief is a very difficult invitation into falling into love with the next level of generosity in our life; [It’s an invitation to] let go of what we’ve held on to so tightly in another person in order to re-find the world, or let it come find us.
The truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
