-Jul 10, 20192 minBLESSED 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...
-Jul 3, 20192 minPRIDE 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...
-Jun 19, 20192 minDAILY 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...
-Jun 12, 20192 minDEEPER 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.”...
-Jun 5, 20191 minSPIRIT 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...
-May 29, 20192 minLOOKING 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...
-May 22, 20191 minMORE 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...
-May 15, 20192 minPOETIC 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...
-May 8, 20191 minGRANDEUR... 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....
-May 1, 20192 minMENTAL 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...
-Apr 24, 20191 minALLELUIA... 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...
-Apr 17, 20192 minENTER 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!...
-Apr 10, 20192 minMYTHIC 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...
-Apr 3, 20192 minNATIONAL 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...
-Mar 27, 20193 minHOLY 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...
-Mar 20, 20191 minMOURNING 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...
-Mar 13, 20193 minWILDERNESS... 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...
-Mar 6, 20192 minTURN 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,...
-Feb 27, 20192 minTRANSFIGURATION... 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...
-Feb 13, 20192 minLOVE 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...