Rev. Sophia preaching, with Charlyn Bethell, Jean Gauthier, Carole Katz, Guy Urban and some special musical guests!
The hope of worship is to awaken us to Something More, but this doesn’t just happen on Sundays. Rev. Sophia will reflect on one of her first ‘awakening experiences’ which just so happened to take place at a Grateful Dead show in 1991! Let’s come together and explore Awakening through music, story, and prayer–it will be good to be together. See you on Sunday!
*Collective Effervescence is a term coined by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his 1912 book “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.”
Reading: From “The Alphabet of Grace,” by Frederick Buechner
“…I don’t want to dream this day out. I want to live this day out. I want to live this day out as though it were the first day of my life because that is of course what it is.
Who knows whether there is life on any other planet anywhere else in the universe, but there is life on this planet. And what is life like?
Think of not knowing what life is and then finding out: a book suddenly learning how to read; a rock jutting out into the sea suddenly knowing the thump and splatter of the waves, the taste of salt.
You are alive. It needn’t have been so. It wasn’t so once, and it will not be so forever. But it is so now.
And what is it like: to be alive in this maybe one place of all places anywhere where life is? Live a day of it and see.
Take any day and be alive in it.
Nobody claims that it will be entirely painless, but no matter. It is your birthday, and there are many presents to open.
The world is to open…”
Reverend Sophia Lyons
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.