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Wounded Healers

What are the sources - and limits - of our capacity to be caring people? The idea of the wounded healer comes from Henri Nouwen, a twentieth - century Dutch priest whose life and ministry inspired people all over the world. (Remarks by Nancy Shinno)
Write Letters to Irregular Voters

LOVE NEEDS YOU to write letters to irregular voters to let them know that elections matter and they matter as voters. UUSM has all mailing materials and postage, along with contactless pickup from 20th and Pico in Santa Monica. We are also phone banking in English and Spanish (independently and with fellow UUS0. Sign up at tinyurl.com/uusm2020vote. This is a nonpartisan effort to encourage Americans to participate in our democracy, but we are focusing on geographic areas where there's a clear opportunity to #defeathate and #votelove. Thank you! - Jacki Weber, Santa Monica UU the Vote
Writers' Workshop

Workshop led by Bettye Barclay
Writing for Discernment - Zoom/Online
Writing For Discernment with Bettye Barclay - Zoom/Online

 

 

Writing For Discernment 

Participants will be invited to explore through writing their responses to questions based on the ministry

theme of the month. It will offer opportunities for self-discovery, being witnessed by others,
and for spiritual discernment. 
Ideas and questions will be sent prior to each meeting that will serve as
impetus for writing that will be read during the meeting. We will also do some brief writing
from prompts during the meeting each month. There will be time to share your
writings and people will be able to share what was most meaningful for them
from the meeting. It is based very much on the format of a chalice circle, but the sharing is
done by reading what has been written.

 

Bettye Barclay worked for many years as a psychotherapist and led a variety of

workshops including career choice, stress management, journal writing, and meditation.

 

This is a recurring meeting with members expected to register in advance and attend each month. Please email

Adult RE at AdultRE@uusm.org for the zoom link.

 
Y'all Come Back Now, Y'hear?

Unitarian Universalist Minister and author, Robert Fulgum, once wrote that "Everything I Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Maybe it's something all ministers eventually recognize, but I now concede that many of the most profound lessons I learned stem from experiences I had when I was a boy. And most everything I learned about how to be a minister, and what a good church is, came from time I spent teaching RE.
Yale University's "Out of the Blue" in Concert

Yale University's a cappella choir "Out of the Blue" will be perform exciting original vocal arrangements of popular tunes.  They have travelled across the U.S. and abroad and this year's tour takes them to Los Angeles, Boston and Brazil!  Come catch their act while they're in town.   Suggested donation $10.  To learn more about the group, visit their website at www.yaleootb.com.
Yamim Nora’im: The Days of Awe (Online Service)
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have arrived on the cycle of the Hebrew calendar, and we explore this sacred time of taking inventory of our lives and making amends to refresh our souls and renew the world.  Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides.  We live out these within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and personal experience.
Year After Year

Times may change, but the affirmations of the holiday season do not. Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice arrive this weekend. We will celebrate what they mean to us as Unitarian Universalists. Music Victor Lawrence, cello
Yom Hashoah Holocaust

Children in Crisis is the theme the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has chosen to explore for Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. The youngest victims of genocide, from Nazi Europe to Darfur, have left a powerful witness from their brief lives.
You Gotta Know When to Walk Away

When is enough ... enough?  Quitting requires courage and faith that if you do it differently next time, you might meet your goal.  How can you strategically end one endeavor and  mindfully move to another when people are screaming, "Don't Quit!"