by UUAvl-WebAdmin | May 10, 2017 | Sermons
Flesh, Blood, Breath, Bones and Stories “Messenger,” by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—— equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 18, 2017 | Sermons
READING IT is the first mild day of March: Each minute sweeter than before The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Apr 4, 2017 | Sermons
READING From Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard Why do people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? … Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe...
by UUAvl-WebAdmin | Mar 28, 2017 | Sermons
READINGS From Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer “If American democracy fails, the ultimate cause will not be a foreign invasion or the power of big money or the greed and dishonesty of some elected officials or a military coup or the internal...
