Beyond Sunday: The UUCSB Blog
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Our Extraordinary Faith Meets Extraordinary Times
I remember starting the new year with a service called Gird Your Loins…..well this week I am circling back to that statement and those sentiments. The ways we create safe space are tantamount right now. Art is resistance. Peaceful gathering and creating sanctuary is resistance. Supporting community based organizations and operations is resistance. Even if it is resistance to despair, it is in fact resistance that is named by spiritual leaders of all shapes and sizes as the resistance that will transform the world.
Rev. Lori on Love
“As a UU, Love is my name for what others call God. While love can be a feeling, for me the “feeling” is only a small part of the fullness of the word. Because it is also a verb and at the center of decision making and right relation. For ourselves and others. And it often means choosing the gifts and wellness in our life and the enormous web of our creation that we have been given.”
Rev. Lori on the Intersection of Love and Truth
“Love without truth can become sentimentality. Truth without love can become cruelty. But where love and truth meet, something holy happens.’”
Rev. Lori With A Modern Parable of Readiness
“There once was a traveler who set out with nothing but a thin cloak and a determined heart. Whenever the winds changed, she gathered the cloak around her. When storms approached, she cinched the cloth tight at her waist so her hands were free—free to build, free to shield, free to lift others up. When asked why she always prepared herself so deliberately, she said, “The world is full of work that requires both strength and tenderness. I gird myself not for battle, but for love.””