with George Dempsie

With Virginia Hubbs With poetry, lyrics of music, and reflection, we discover ways to maintain inner calm despite any chaos swirling around us.

With Linda Bryce How well do we wait?

With Chas Brua. Like a spiritual Rorschach test, the month of December carries different meanings for each of us. Using music and brief meditations, we explore our varied reactions to "the narrows of the year." No service Dec 27. Services resume Jan 3, 2024.

with Virginia Hubbs... We make resolutions, but our resolve often dissipates, and those goals disappear from our thoughts. In this service, we reflect on both what resolutions we wish to make, and ways to help us keep them through to fruition.

with George Dempsie... We'll explore the theme using music, poetry and reflective readings.

with Linda Bryce...Celebrating International Creativity Month, we focus on Service participants’ works of art (share one item as you wish) as well as connections between art and spirituality and art and wellness.

with Chas Brua... Beginning with an old Japanese fable, we ponder the gifts and burdens of self-sacrifice on behalf of those we love. Appropriately a love theme for Valentine's Day!

...with Virginia Hubbs. This service is based on writer, teacher and activist Parker Palmer's thoughtful ideas about the season of winter.

...with George Dempsie. Along with "Luck and Good Fortune", we will talk about superstitions and Lucky Charms  (items, not the cereal!).

...with Linda Bryce.  Have we experienced moments of mystery, of something more, that changed our understandings? In the end, how do we live?

...with Chas Brua. Some say life is like a song. In this service, we'll explore the unique qualities that we each bring to that song.

...with Virginia Hubbs.  In Spring, the visual beauty of buds and blooms unfolds and captures our attention. But there is also the beauty of sounds.  Although most of us focus on external sounds, especially the music of birdsong, we will explore our internal music and how it unfolds and blossoms.

...with Caroline Pierce. We eat meals every day to fuel our bodies, but they also reflect our culture, beliefs, and values. We will explore what makes a meal a “soulful supper.”

...with Cee Pollard. Based on two poems by Lynn Ungar, we ask what paths we have followed and what paths we have blazed.

...with George Dempsie.

...with Chas Brua. Taking our cue from a Dan Fogelberg song, we’ll explore what we have gained and lost on our life journeys—and what “levels and lights our way.”

...with Virginia Hubbs. Looking at small surprises that interrupted our daily routine, we consider what wisdom or new perspectives we received.

...with Caroline Pierce. She describes this gratitude practice, what the research says and her experience using it.

...with Chas Brua Mountains--whether we see them as goal or obstacle, inspiration or terrifying height--are potent spiritual metaphors for many people. In this service, we’ll explore our own relationships with mountains.

...with George Dempsie Theologian Henri Nouwen says that mourning and dancing are never fully separated.  We will reflect upon times in our lives when we may have experienced this.

...with Linda Bryce. It would be easy if our same old routines worked. Problem is...everything keeps changing. We’ll reflect on how we respond to change and how we may have changed in the ways we respond.

...with Virginia Hubbs No matter our political inclination, we consider personal and interpersonal practices to help navigate personal stress or anxiety during these ongoing controversial times in our political landscape.

...with Linda Bryce. We recall adages and sayings learned from our families—or other sources—and how the words influenced—or don’t—how we understand and approach life.

...with George Dempsie. We ask how we might let times of aloneness grow into solitude and not into loneliness.