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Annual Remembrance Service

This Sunday the Cares and Concerns Committee will lead our annual Remembrance Service. We will share thoughts and prayers about our loved ones.  If you wish, you may speak briefly about someone who has died, either recently or in the past.  (To give everyone a chance to speak, please limit your words to 3 minutes  or less.) There will be a table in the center of our circle on which you may place a memento of someone who has passed. 

At the close of the service we will go out to the back lawn for music around  the maypole

Coming of Age

Please join us in recognition of our fellowship youth as they come of age and sign the book of members. We will celebrate Rhiannon, Roarke, Stone, and Sutton in words and song followed by a light brunch. The Coming of Age service will be held in place of the Third Sunday history and reflections for May.

The Renewal of Hope

This service celebrates the amazing, heartening return to a greening to Vermont. There will be harp, flute, trance, and best of all, a maypole dance at the end of the service.  

We are Not the Water, we are the Faucet: Exploring Transformation, Part 2

Following up on last October’s service on the topic of transformation, we will take a second look at faith as an aspect of consciousness and reflect on how we can help ourselves, and each other, along the path of transformation. We will re-engage with some of the practical tools to shared in the Fall and explore how they can support us.

This I Believe – Transitions

This Sunday’s “This I Believe” service focuses on the theme of life transitions. Four members of the MMUUF congregation, Delia, Rick, Stone and Evergreen, will share their thoughts on this topic.

Annual Poetry Service

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Throughout life, we often turn to words to help us keep going–especially in the darkest of times. Poems, especially, can serve as meditations for staying grounded,  celebrating moments of joy, or honoring deep grief, calls to action for continued pushing, and connectors for bridging gaps and building solidarity. As usual, we will be inviting folks to share a poem (more information to come) and we’ll write a group poem as well.

Reaching Out

Reaching out to others requires a set of skills that we can learn and practice just like any other life skill. It also takes courage. In this time of ever-increasing division in our country, what are some of the practical ways we are reaching out to make meaningful connections that foster community?

Courageous Authenticity

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Courageous authenticity is more than a concept or philosophy.  It is the practice of being honest about who you are, what you feel, and what you need – even when it feels uncomfortable, risky or vulnerable. Through this practice, we learn to live with greater integrity, compassion, and self-trust.

CANCELLED – Annual Poetry Service

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Throughout life, we often turn to words to help us keep going–especially in the darkest of times. Poems, especially, can serve as meditations for staying grounded,  celebrating moments of joy, or honoring deep grief, calls to action for continued pushing, and connectors for bridging gaps and building solidarity. As usual, we will be inviting folks to share a poem (more information to come) and we’ll write a group poem as well.

Embracing the Flood: on the Confluence of Science, Art and Faith

Artist and ecologist, Gretchen Alexander, will talk with us about how she stepped away from a career in the natural sciences to pursue a calling as an artist, how reframing hardship through the lens of opportunity facilitated personal growth and positive change for her, and some of her thoughts on the intersection of science, art, and revelation.