United Church of Christ Watertown, SD

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime." --L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz On the fifteenth of this month, one year to the day since it began, m...

“This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.” --Ellen Page If you happen to follow my social media f...

“You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicin...

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” --Margaret Mead Time flie...

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” --Martha Graham This Sunday, as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, our attention is drawn o...

“If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.” --Marty Rubin At this point it almost feels cliched to say that the news has been rough re...

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” –Parker J. Palmer Thanks again to Monasteries of the Hea...

“Every good conversation starts with good listening.” --anonymous The following poems are a kind of dialogue over the centuries, sparked by a contemplative o...

“A very great vision is needed and the man [sic] who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” --attr. Tasunke Witko (Crazy Hors...

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” --Pablo Neruda [CW: suicide, mental illness] If the Easter season teaches us anything,...

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” --Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl alleluia she hadn't managed to keep solid fo...

“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” --Margaret Atwood “Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessed is the one who...

“What’s the buzz, tell me what’s a-happenin’?” --Andrew Lloyd Weber (Jesus Christ Superstar) Though I was raised nominally Catholic, my family was proudly no...

“Theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.” --Karen Armstrong Happy National Poetry Month! As a writer mys...

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson One of my favorite interfaith experiences hap...

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week, we invite you to read the United Church o...

“I come into the peace of wild things… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” –Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things” When we think of...

“Sister, mother/And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,/Suffer me not to be separated/And let my cry come unto Thee.” –T.S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday” When I...

“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” --Marianne Williamson “So how d’ya like the weather?” That’s the question my partner Satya keeps ...

“Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” --Maya Angelou If you come to our LOVE IS LOVE Valentine’s service tomorrow...