 UU Fellowship of Lafayette Greetings fellow UUs and supporters! We are meeting IN PERSON and on Zoom until further notice. Our theme for December services is Healing. Rachel Remen's book, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, has as its premise that we can become each other’s healers. Remen states, “We thought we could cure everything, but it turns out that we can only cure a small amount of human suffering. The rest of it needs to be healed, and that’s different.” As she notes, “Healing is not a work of perfection or expertise. We are all healers. We heal with our wholeness, our humanity, all of our life experience, even our wounds. Our own wounds make us gentle with the wounds of others and able to trust the mystery of healing, not as a theory but from lived experience. Our vulnerability connects us to the vulnerability in others in compassionate and loving ways.” Let's all strive to use our powers of spiritual healing to benefit both ourselves and others.
Sunday, December 4th Service:  Our service theme this Sunday is 'A Healing Effect' by Rev. Rick Davis. As the body has the ability to heal wounds given the right conditions, so also might our spirits be healed by an inner wisdom -- given the right conditions. Be aware that if you fail to transform your pain, you may end up projecting it on others. There are many paths to healing our spirits. A meditation practice might be just the ticket to get you there, or listening to classical music, or gardening, star gazing, hiking, painting, poetry, prayer, etc. Being UUs, how might we help others to heal without the benefit of traditional prayer? Perhaps we can openly acknowledge their pain and sorrow and be with them to let them know we care. That may not sound like much, but it may be more than enough! Visit us at 1119 Johnson Street, building 12 or via the Zoom link at uulala.org this Sunday, 10:30-11 am for fellowship, and 11-12 noon for the service. If unable to attend you can view the interactive service slides and sermon text. If you will be visiting us and are on Facebook, please mark yourself going in the event Last Sunday's service recap: Our service theme was The History of Nonviolence by John Green. We learned how Leo Tolstoy influenced Mhatama Ghandi's successful non-violent resistance to British rule of India -- eventually winning his country's independance. Non-violence has been a successful tool in other struggles against imperialism and injustices as well. Martin Luther King, Jr. also used non-violence effectively in the fight against racism and for civil and voting rights. View the interactive service slides. ---- Our online calendar is now available via this link.    --- |