Community has become even more important in these challenging times. We offer multiple ways to connect.
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For those who cannot make it in person to services, we offer livestreaming via YouTube. See this week’s service announcement directly below with the link. (Click on the picture.)
Sunday morning service videos can be accessed at your convenience on our Worship page or YouTube channel.
Join us May 18th for our final Sunday Morning Dialog until September. CLICK HERE for more information.
Rev. Craig hosts Thursday Tea Time at 4pm on zoom the weeks he is in the pulpit. CLICK HERE to find the link.
May 18th, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed
Bridges and Beacons: A Multigenerational Morning
UUCMC Youth, CDFM Michelle McKenzie-Creech, & Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano
This special youth-led service honors the milestones of Coming of Age and Bridging. Our young people will reflect on how they embody their Unitarian Universalist values. As they cross thresholds and embark on the next chapters of their lives, they serve as beacons of insight and hope, reminding us of the courage it takes to grow, the light we each carry, and the love that connects us.
Music: Michael Rosin, Music Director; Rev. Craig; Benjamin Eittreim
May 18th, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
From “What is enough?” to “Am I enough ?”
Denise Addonisio
Denise will discuss how her desire to help clients declutter and simplify before moving led to a surprising realization about living a fulfilled life. Please join us if you would like to discuss the tangible aspects of downsizing or the philosophical side of the meaning of living. I am sure that we will all learn something!
Denise is a dichotomy of “What ev/happy go lucky AND Why am I here?/Is my life sufficiently meaningful?” She is a member of UUCMC, mother of five and became a realtor in Asbury Park after a career as a clinical nutritionist.
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May Monthly Theme: The Practice of IMAGINATION
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
The goal of oppressors is to limit your imagination about what is possible without them, so you never imagine more for yourself and the world you live in.
Thinking that we can exponentially grow forever, or even that this is somehow desirable, is a catastrophic failure of imagination, and it’s putting the entire human experiment in jeopardy.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
The imagination plants the inconceivable in our minds and makes our hearts long for it to be true.
It’s easier for us to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat, is, like war, the failure of imagination.
