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Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is November 16th. CLICK HERE for more information.
November 9th, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed
Subversive Gratitude
Rev. Sasha Ostrom, Guest Minister
This Sunday, we’ll explore how gratitude can be a radical, restorative force in a broken world.
Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director
Rev. Sasha Ostrom, minister of the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, joins us as part of the NJ Leadership Leaves program.
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October Theme: CULTIVATING COMPASSION
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
There is a hierarchy of responses when we encounter suffering. Pity says, “I see your pain.” Sympathy says “I understand your pain.” Empathy says, “I feel your pain.” Compassion says “I am with you in your pain and I will help.”
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
We are being conditioned to shut down. The barrage of cruelty, confusion, spectacle, and spin… wears on our capacity to feel… That is the danger of this moment—not just political collapse or climate unraveling or the erosion of public trust—but the numbing of our souls…
Those who do the most growing in this life are those who offer the most compassion to the parts of themselves that have not yet grown.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness.
Self-compassion isn’t about escaping your darkness but learning to love yourself there.
