“It
is not only in the rose, it is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow
glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things,There
alway, alway something sings.” These words by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which were
sung by our choir … read more.
“As
the deer longs for the flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.” These
words, which open Psalm 42, and which were sung beautifully by our choir just
now, remind us that spiritual sustenance just as essential and refreshing to
the soul as water is to … read more.
Every week in my final
semester of college, I walked a circuit around the campus, visiting the same 80
or so plants and documenting their growth, buds, leaves, and blossoms. It was a
weekly assignment, called “Order of Bloom” for my spring Horticulture class.
When we began in
February, with … read more.
We come to worship on holy land, and we honor the native people on whose traditional land we gather today.
We recognize the Multnomah, Clackamas, Clowwewalla and Cascades bands of Chinookan peoples, and the Tualatin Band of Kalapuya.
These indigenous peoples signed the Willamette Valley Treaty … read more.
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come.”
We Unitarian Universalists love this poem and the songs it inspired. … read more.
I’m so glad to be with all of you this morning. I’ve met a lot of you already, and I know that there are probably a lot more folks out there who still have questions about me. I’ll take a guess that one of the … read more.
