With Rev. Sophia preaching, Jean Gauthier, Joanna Hooper, Josh Bridger, Nick Woebke, Guy Urban, Charlyn Bethell and a special piece of music offered by our kids!
This Sunday, we will look to some of the teachings of Passover to shed light on the spiritual practice of living Dayenu, which translates as ‘it would have been enough.’ As we continue to honor the Earth and the stunning web of interdependence in which we are a part, let us lift up joyful thanks, together, for the enough-ness that is life and love. We will also hear Nick Woebke’s Journey of Faith!
The reading this morning comes to us from Anne Lamott, from her book, “Help, Thanks, Wow.”
A lot of us…go around saying thank you to God when we find a good parking space, or locate the house keys or the wandering phone, or finally get a good night’s sleep. And while that might be annoying to the people around us, it’s important because if we’re lucky, gratitude becomes a habit. You say “Thank you” when something scary happened in your beloved and screwed-up family and you all came through (or most of you did), and you have found love in the intergenerational ruins (maybe a lot of love, or maybe just enough). Or you can look at what was revealed in the latest mess, and you say thanks for the revelation, because it shows you some truth you needed to know, and that can be so rare in our families, let alone in our culture, our world, and in our marriages, and in our relationships with our teenagers and ourselves. You say, ‘thank you’ for lifting this corner of the curtain so I can see the truth, maybe for just a moment, but in a way that might change my life forever…
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.