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“Building Beloved Community, Part 2” – January 28th, 2024

Jan 29, 2024

Rev. Sophia preaching. We will consider the power of Liberating Love when offered to our bodies, and the bodies of those in our midst.

Reading: “Creation is Messy,” by Rev. Laurel Mendes 

Creation is messy, inconvenient, 
And often uncooperative.

Take a look at the cosmos.

Go ahead, close your eyes and imagine the stars.

When you do, forget the Franz Josef Haydn “spacious firmament” bit.

His images are far too tidy.

See the real mess the universe made of itself 14 billion years ago.

All of creation is still trying to clean that up.

It’s called the Big Bang, not the Grand Coalescence, for a reason.

Mistakes were made, 
And incorporated into the whole anyway.

And wonders never cease, here we still are muddling along 14 billion years after the fact.

Now open your eyes and look around you. 
You are surrounded by the most astounding miraculous wonder of all: Each other, 
Community, 
Life ongoing, caring about life ongoing. 
So it is. 
And so it shall be.

Reverend Sophia Lyons
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Rev. Sophia is committed to radical welcome and spreading the good news that is our bold Unitarian Universalist faith. Some of her areas of interest include interfaith partnerships, addictions ministry, spiritual direction, and working towards collective liberation for all. Rev. Sophia aspires to live her life and fulfill her ministry guided by spiritual seeking, big love, and the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism.

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