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    BLESSED ENDINGS… This Week at UCCW
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    • Jul 10, 2019
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    BLESSED ENDINGS… This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    PRIDE IN THE PARK... This Week at UCCW
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    • Jul 3, 2019
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    PRIDE IN THE PARK... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    DAILY MEDITATIONS... This Week at UCCW
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    • Jun 19, 2019
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    DAILY MEDITATIONS... This Week at UCCW

    “You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the...
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    DEEPER WELLS… This Week at UCCW
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    • Jun 12, 2019
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    DEEPER WELLS… This Week at UCCW

    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”...
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    SPIRIT IS A DANCER… This Week at UCCW
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    • Jun 5, 2019
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    SPIRIT IS A DANCER… This Week at UCCW

    “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” --Martha Graham This Sunday, as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, our...
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    LOOKING FOR THE GOOD... This Week at UCCW
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    • May 29, 2019
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    LOOKING FOR THE GOOD... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    MORE CONVERSATIONS... This Week at UCCW
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    • May 22, 2019
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    MORE CONVERSATIONS... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    POETIC CONVERSATIONS... This Week at UCCW
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    • May 15, 2019
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    POETIC CONVERSATIONS... This Week at UCCW

    “Every good conversation starts with good listening.” --anonymous The following poems are a kind of dialogue over the centuries, sparked...
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    GRANDEUR... This Week at UCCW
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    • May 8, 2019
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    GRANDEUR... This Week at UCCW

    “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....
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    MENTAL HEALTH MONTH... This Week at UCCW
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    • May 1, 2019
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    MENTAL HEALTH MONTH... This Week at UCCW

    “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” --Pablo Neruda [CW: suicide, mental illness] If the Easter season...
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    ALLELUIA... This Week at UCCW
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    • Apr 24, 2019
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    ALLELUIA... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    ENTER THE STORY... This Week at UCCW
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    • Apr 17, 2019
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    ENTER THE STORY... This Week at UCCW

    “You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” --Margaret Atwood “Hosanna! Hosanna!...
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    MYTHIC THEATER... This Week at UCCW
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    • Apr 10, 2019
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    MYTHIC THEATER... This Week at UCCW

    “What’s the buzz, tell me what’s a-happenin’?” --Andrew Lloyd Weber (Jesus Christ Superstar) Though I was raised nominally Catholic, my...
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    NATIONAL POETRY MONTH... This Week at UCCW
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    • Apr 3, 2019
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    NATIONAL POETRY MONTH... This Week at UCCW

    “Theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.” --Karen Armstrong Happy National Poetry...
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    HOLY ENVY... This Week at UCCW
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    • Mar 27, 2019
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    HOLY ENVY... This Week at UCCW

    “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson One of my favorite...
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    MOURNING IN SOLIDARITY... This Week at UCCW
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    • Mar 20, 2019
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    MOURNING IN SOLIDARITY... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    WILDERNESS... This Week at UCCW
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    • Mar 13, 2019
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    WILDERNESS... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    TURN AROUND... This Week at UCC Watertown
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    • Mar 6, 2019
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    TURN AROUND... This Week at UCC Watertown

    “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,...
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    TRANSFIGURATION... This Week at UCCW
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    • Feb 27, 2019
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    TRANSFIGURATION... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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    LOVE IS LOVE... This Week at UCCW
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    • Feb 13, 2019
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    LOVE IS LOVE... This Week at UCCW

    “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...
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