This message invites us to explore what we mean say something is “unprecedented.” By paying close attention – to history, culture, nature, and ourselves – we discover that many challenges echo timeless human experiences. Drawing from the renewal of spring, we can learn how awareness and presence help us meet uncertainty with resilience, creativity, and … Continue reading These Often, Unprecedented Times
Most of want to be be part of a community. Many of us have chosen to be part of the Winchester Unitarian Society community. What does it mean to be really rooted in a community, and not just floating on the surface like a leaf on a pond? Because when we float, we tend to … Continue reading Rooted in Community, Rising in Strength
As we continue to live through difficult times, we are also continuing our Resources for Resilience project this Sunday featuring music! Reslience can and often does come from within – and we need not try to be resilient alone. Resilience also can and often does come from others, whether it be friends, inspirational writings, sacred … Continue reading Resources for Resilience: Music
As part of our Resources for Resilience project we are exploring some really specific ways that we find resilience – through inspirational readings, music, and personal stories. This Sunday, we look the bigger picture: what does resilience look like as a spiritual practice? How do we find resilience in ourselves, and in each other? Join … Continue reading Practicing Resilience
As a result of videotaping and sports instant replays, we know that eyewitnesses report only their experience of an event, an experience often quite different from others who were there as well. What we see and hear, and how we frame it are shaped by all we bring to the encounter. In these times of … Continue reading Sometimes They Aren’t the Enemy
In the face of political, economic and environmental crises, speaking of hope can feel futile and even naive. Still, in the darkest hours of our human history, thinkers like Viktor Frankl have reminded us that our resilience is founded upon our hope. The ideal that they espouse, however, is not mere wishful thinking, but instead … Continue reading Hope as a Form of Resilience
We are living through difficult times, times that call us on to be resilient. Reslience can and often does come from within – and we need not try to be resilient alone. Resilience also can and often does come from others, whether it be friends, inspirational writings, sacred texts, music, or otherwise. Join us this … Continue reading Resources for Resilience: Inspirational Readings & Sacred Texts
There are a lot of bad things happening in our country right now. It’s a scary time to be a citizen of the United States. The rule of law is not being followed – foreign leaders are being captured and deposed, citizens are being killed by the government on the flimsiest of pretexts and being … Continue reading It Is Time To Be Bold
Resistance usually sounds and feels like an active thing, and so the idea that “rest is resistance,” popularized by Tricia Hersey, typically feels counter-intuitive to us. During this time of year where many animals hibernate and intentionally slow down, we will explore this Sunday what it might mean to engage in “intentional dormancy” as a … Continue reading Intentional Dormancy
At the beginning of each year, we invite three members of the WUS community, representing three generations, to reflect on the poet Mary Oliver’s compelling question “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Come hear how Giorgio Cantoni, Victoria Ippolito, and Woody Wood respond and consider how you … Continue reading Our Wild and Precious Life
