“To Live is to Change” – September 22nd, 2024

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Laura Horn, Charlyn Bethell, Elisabeth Strekalovsky, Guy Urban and the special music of a string quartet, with Alyssa Lawson playing cello!

Our Unitarian Universalist Values and Inspiration ask us to earnestly commit ourselves to a life of continuous seeking and transformation. This Sunday’s worship service lands on the Autumn Equinox, which many Pagans call ‘the turning of the wheel.’ We will look to this important Earth wisdom and theology to help us consider all the ways our lives and communities are constantly being made new. Now is not the time to recede from spiritual community, but to move into the center of it. Take a deep breath and come to church!

Reading: “Three Times My Life Has Opened” by Jane Hirshfield

Three times my life has opened.
Once, into darkness and rain.
Once, into what the body carries at all times within it and
starts to remember each time it enters the act of love.
Once, to the fire that holds all.
These three were not different.
You will recognize what I am saying or you will not.
But outside my window all day a maple has stepped
from her leaves like a woman in love with winter, dropping
the colored silks.
Neither are we different in what we know.
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of
light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor,
or the one red leaf the snow releases in March.