In this springtime season, I imagine our congregation as a garden. With new seeds being planted and each of us growing and blossoming in our own time. One of the things our UU faith requires of us is that we each must keep growing, learning, and seeking out deeper understandings and new to us truths. This willingness to keep learning and growing and changing is part of what helps guide us, as people of faith, into fuller maturity—into our fullest understanding of who we are and what a well-lived life looks like and feels like. Our faith requires that we keep learning, growing, changing, and becoming—no matter our age.
As we make a commitment to one another to continue growing in faith together, I invite you to be the light with me. Together, let us make and grow a garden “inch by inch, and row by row.”
Let us create a garden that inspires us each to deep learning and growth in our own understandings and potential.
Let us make a place where we can all grow and blossom and share our harvest, bounty and beauty with the world.
In Faith,
– Rev. Leia
From the March 14 Community Worship Sermon:
“Commitment to Lifelong Learning: A Place to Grow and Blossom”
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We were curious about how our staff and volunteers went from closing the church in March, to reopening virtually a few weeks later in April. We talked to Leia and found it was a many-person effort. To support the mission and values of this congregation please make your pledge today. Watch Rev. Leia’s interview here.
YOUTH AND MULTIGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS:
[yotuwp type=”videos” id=”IWRhHhM92F0″ ]The hymn, “Earth was Given a Garden” speaks of, “the tree of life and tree of knowledge” as “ours to discover,” and I believe these acts of discovery are fundamental to the faith development of every one of us.
Please enjoy our Music Director’s arrangement of the hymn with photos from our multigenerational programs.