Connection in a COVID-19 World, Rev Anne Barker, 22 March 2020
Channel: Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Date: 25/03/2020

Although Westwood Unitarian Congregation and the Unitarian Church of Edmonton are currently closed for regular worship services, we invite you to participate in compassionate, supportive community at our Sunday services online at 10:30 am MDT.
 
In the spirit of supporting each other in these challenging times, our first online service will be hosted by Westwood and the Unitarian Church of Edmonton. All are invited to participate.
 


Reversals of Fortune
People wake up to ordinary days all the time and the, somehow, as though things were just too peaceful, they experience drastic reversals of fortune. The car resting on its roof. The fall, the broken bone. The less than hoped for grade, the broken heart when a pet dies. You get it. 
You never know what’s in a day. Except you; you are the golden thread running through. I know that these reversals will test you. You may move through, burdened with a fresh, wet grief. Or for now, you may arrive at this moment unscathed:
What you need to know is that there is nothing larger than the love that is your destiny. And the love may, at times, feel opaque and distant, like a looming thundercloud, too far to reach. If that’s too hard to locate, find your breath, a thread of your life. Find your community, friendly face and open hand. What’s true is that some changes call for every skill that we possess. The deeper truth remains: changes will eventually change. Let your heart flex. Let it grow. Allow a reversal to be a moment in which you are the constant, while you give yourself kindness and heaping, joyful love.  
 
Thank you so much to UU Rev Theresa Inés Soto for giving us permission to share these beautiful words.
Spilling The Light: Meditations On Hope And Resilience
https://www.uua.org/products/spilling-light?fbclid=IwAR2rBYpp0sTyfpb-Xzjtx-liAMp9R640FZRd3ShBO2LWVySGpzwPQRLyCk8

 
Unitarian Church of Edmonton website: https://www.uce.ca/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/41659071349/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/UnitarianChurch/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnitarianUCE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitarianuce/
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-189401827

The Unitarian Church of Edmonton is a liberal, multi-generational, religious community.
We celebrate a rich mosaic of free-thinking, spiritually-questing individuals joined in common support and action.  We welcome diversity including diversity of beliefs from divine believers to humanists, from pagans to atheists and agnostics.  We believe in the compassion of the human heart, the warmth of community, the pursuit of justice and the search of meaning in our lives.

We gather with gratitude on traditional Cree lands that are now a part of Treaty Six and shared by many nations.   A treaty is an inheritance, a responsibility and a relationship.  May we be good neighbours to one another, good stewards to our planet and good ancestors to our children.

#UU #UnitarianUniversalist
#Westwood
#Unitarian Church of Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory #yeg
#WelcomingCongregation
#community #connection
#PhysicalDistancingnotSocialDistancing