Finding the Sacred in the Everyday – Online with Zoom at 9 am As the news keeps coming to hunker down, stay home or stay away, we are at risk for feeling isolated. And as the news keeps reminding us there is likely more to come and that the storm hasn’t yet hit, we are … Continue reading Finding the Sacred in the Everyday – Online with Zoom at 9 am

Reading  “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters” by Portia Nelson https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/autobio_5chapters.pdf Sermon Wisdom. It’s the pearl of all pearls. It’s lifted up in cultures all over the world. I picture us diving to the bottom of the ocean in search of it –  seeking some magical scroll locked in a treasure chest in the hull of … Continue reading Desperately Seeking Wisdom

In this service for all ages, we consider the many faces of wisdom through stories from around the world. Please join us!
Note: if you have a smartphone, you are invited to bring it to the service for a special activity. If you don’t have one, don’t worry, just bring yourself!
Two Services at 9am and 11am  in the Sanctuary
Child Care available at 1st service
Choir sings at 9am service

Two Services at 9am and 11am  in the Sanctuary
Child Care available at 1st service

Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun, bestselling author and one of my most influential spiritual teachers. I have read almost every one of her books and listened to her published talks probably dozens of times. In a sermon on resilience, Rev Rob Hardies relays a turning point story from Pema Chodron’s life.[1] About the day … Continue reading How We Come Back: Stories of Resilience

“I am large” Walt Whitman wrote, “I contain multitudes.” We, humans, are multifaceted beings. Yet from the time we are small we receive messages telling us who and how we are supposed to be. What about the rest of us? As we explore the theme of integrity this month, let’s talk about what it might mean to embrace all the parts of who we are.

That’s the title of a sermon Martin Luther King preached in 1957. And an ever-recurring question for our day. Where do we go from here, in a country so divided along ideological lines, still so conflicted around race? What might we do to move toward a vision that is unified and hopeful? And what might be our part, yours and mine, in helping make those dreams come true?

  Reading ‘Thanks, Robert Frost’ by David Ray https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2007%252F01%252F31.html Sermon I walked by the window of a bookstore and saw something that made me stop short. There, at the front of the display case was Marie Kondo’s bestselling book: The life-changing magic of tidying up. And, there, perched right next to Kondo’s book, in a … Continue reading January 12, 2020 Cleaning House in Home or Heart