RE Everyday

Welcome to RE Everyday; a place where we explore ways to live the lessons of our Church School, our Religious Education Program, and our Unitarian Universalist faith!  My vision is that this will be a cooperative page full of ideas from anyone in our church community who has ideas about how to better live our faith.

Many thanks to the Lifespan Religious Education Committee, our lead teachers, and our teachers this Sunday, for a wonderful start to the church year. We have made a fairly smooth transition back to our more traditional form and curriculum and I am very much looking forward to a year of teaching and learning for everyone.

I am also these days, mindful of how deeply important are the lessons that we try to teach and embody in our church school. The very real, sincere, and heartfelt cultural differences in our nation and world are, right now, being intensified and coarsely used in the name, sadly, of healing those very divisions (I speak, of course, of the Presidential election campaign.)

What can we do? One daily and practical answer is to live our Unitarian Universalist Principles as best we can moment by moment. It may not seem much-doing the next right thing does not feel revolutionary. In fact, it often seems tedious and ineffectual. I have really come to believe, however, that it is everything. It is living a vision of a good life.

One such vision was written by the 19th Century Unitarian William Henry Channing and it serves as our theme for the year:

My Symphony

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.”     WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING

BABY CARE

It is our great pleasure to announce that Bev Gardner has volunteered to coordinate our baby care program!  If you or someone you know would like to spend a Sunday or two with our youngest parishioners, please contact Bev.  Many Thanks!

***A special Thank You to Linda Goodwin who donated brand new toys and activities to our Nursery this Sunday.  They were much needed.  Thank You Linda! 

And as always, if you have any questions or comments please contact me!

stuart twite (DRE)

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