We gather in a season of becoming. Some of us are arriving, some are departing, and most of us are somewhere in between. May we find courage for what is ending, openness for what is emerging, and companionship for the journey. Website oos 6_28_26 Music sheet 6-28-26
As we prepare to leave this beloved building, move into temporary quarters, and begin the work of creating a new sanctuary, we are invited to reflect on what truly makes a spiritual home. The Larger House explores the possibility that our congregation is more than any one structure. We consider, then, how change can open … Continue reading The Larger House
Sometimes our personal relationships are more troubled than we’d wish. How can we mend what’s broken? We look at how Ho’oponopono, the Hawaiian ritual of reconciliation, echoes UU values. Website OOS 6-14-26 Music Sheet 6-14-26
The Flower Communion is a beloved Unitarian Universalist ritual celebrating beauty, human uniqueness, and community. website oos 6-7-26 Music sheet 6-7-26
Continuing the series as we transition from our Interim Pastor, Melissa O’Brien, to our Contract Minister, Rev. Viola Abbitt.
Beginning this week our services will have an arc of continuity through the eight weeks that Melissa will be with us until the end of July. She will guide us through this time of transition, helping us to reflect on change, identity, resilience, and community, and inviting us to see ourselves as not simply enduring … Continue reading Crossing the Threshold
Following the deaths of her four children, eminent Saratogian Katrina Trask (1852–1922) devoted several decades to activism in various causes. A particular focus was addressing the vast divide between Gilded Age high society, and the servants and laborers who made the upper class lifestyles possible. In 2014 local visual artist Rumara Jewett researched sculptor Daniel … Continue reading Katrina Trask and Social Justice
What does it mean to love something into freedom? Melissa offers a Mother’s Day reflection exploring the central tension of mothering: that genuine love and good parenting requires nurturing another human toward the very independence that takes them away from you. OOS 5-10-26
In honor of this time of year with its transitions, celebrations and liminal spaces through which many of our beloveds walk, this week we muse on what I call the Venn diagram of life. OOS online 5-3-26 PDF Music Sheet 5-3-26
We gather inside a living system. The Earth moves through our lives as breath, water, and ground. Earth Day invites attention. What we take. What we return. Our lives participate in something larger and continuous. And so we are not merely guests here. We are in relationship, bound by more than gratitude, called to more … Continue reading Earth Day Service: What Does It Mean to Be in Covenant with Our Living World?