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.
Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is March 1st. CLICK HERE for more information.
March 1st, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed on YouTube
UUCMC: A Wellspring of Hope and Courage
Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano and Michelle McKenzie-Creech, CDFM
The definitions of “wellspring” suggest an inexhaustible source, yet we understand that even as UUCMC inexhaustibly inspires, nourishes, and furnishes us with enough hope and courage to live out our Mission in ourselves and the world, UUCMC cannot exist at all without us—we are UUCMC’s wellspring. Our annual Stewardship campaign is an important reminder that everything UUCMC is or provides is up to us—ours to continue, with our talents, our time, and with our treasure. Come with pledge forms and live out your determination to have UUCMC continue to be a wellspring of hope and courage for years to come!
Music: Michael Rosin, Joel DeWitt
A Pancake Breakfast will follow the service in the Community Room!
March 1st, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
I went to a place where they speak English!
Linda Stehlik
Wildlife in Australia is completely different from what I have seen elsewhere and it was a tad disorienting at first. Despite being a life-long birder, when I heard bird calIs, I had no idea what they were. The mammals are marsupials! Eucalyptus and Grevillea are the most common plants. Even though Australia is English-speaking, I had to learn a whole new vocabulary. In the morning, they eat Brekkie and women are called Chooks. The trees the Europeans named oaks have leaves like ferns and orange toothbrush-shaped flowers. Wrens are bright blue. But it did begin to feel familiar by the end of our 5-week journey to rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs,
deserts, and hills, and our guides, others on the tour and I have become good friends.
Linda Stehlik has been a member of UUCMC for 30 years, and is active in the Sister Circle, the Video Team, and the Grounds Team. She is a lifelong birder and naturalist, and worked as a marine ecologist at the NOAA Lab at Sandy Hook, where she found out that fish behavior is much like bird behavior.
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February Theme: EMBODYING RESILIENCE
Sure grit and resilience mean pushing through against all odds. But sometimes being able to say, “I quit,” and to actually quit, takes grit. It takes resilience. Sometimes withstanding adversity looks like withdrawing from certain activities. Sometimes pushing through looks like pulling out.
Observing the water teaches me [that] Resilience isn’t trying to hold on to all you have been and somehow get through. It is the flow of water that responds to its environment and even changes its form, yet never changes its fundamental nature.
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us..
If you see successes and failures as being placed in your path to teach you things, you are more likely to be psychologically hardy and therefore more resilient in the face of trauma.
Resilience is really a secular word for what religion was trying to say with the word faith. Without a certain ability to let go, to trust, to allow, we won’t get to any new place.
Here’s the real kicker. The people who break free from their past aren’t the ones who never made mistakes; they’re the ones who stopped identifying with those mistakes.
Falling into grief is a very difficult invitation into falling into love with the next level of generosity in our life; [It’s an invitation to] let go of what we’ve held on to so tightly in another person in order to re-find the world, or let it come find us.
The truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
