A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #183, I will call upon God's Name and on my own.
Lesson #183 I will call upon God’s Name and on my own. The Buddhists call the constant chatter in our heads, the “self talk,” “monkey mind.” The monkeys keep chattering and won’t shut the fuck up. T
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Covenant
Covenants are the sacred promises we make to one another that bind us together. It is important that when we stray from a covenant we take the time to return to it and repair it. What are the sacred b
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Who Put the Odal Rune on the CPAC Stage?
Jumping to conclusions is one way conspiracy theories get started. At the same time, there is virtually no way this was an accident. Someone intentionally designed the CPAC stage in the shape of a run
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Meditation on Saving Terror Targets—New Murfin Verse
Martha and Waitstill Sharp wave as they prepared to depart from New York to Europe in 1939. They scarcely knew what they were in for. Yesterday at our Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation
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Sermon: “Understanding Divine Revelation”
I preached from this sermon manuscript online for the Universalist National Memorial Church, on February 21, 2021 using lessons from the Revised Common Lectionary: Genesis 9: 8-17 and Mark 1: 9-15. Th
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UPDATE — Noel Food Pantry Donation Drive This Week (28 February 2021)
Our apologies for posting inaccurate information about this on our web site. Today (Sunday, 7 March 2021) from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Melissa Lewis will be at All Souls collecting donations for the Noel
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Supporting Black Agricultural in the Wake of the arctic storm
As many of you know, last week First Houston partnered with the Unitarian Universalist Association to distribute 14,000 liters of water. Working with volunteers from our congregation and Project Row H
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Old Mother Frost nominated for Reader’s Choice Award
Jennifer Hartman's "Old Mother Frost," a book for Pagan children, has been shortlisted in the TCK Publishing Reader's Choice Awards. Continue reading Old Mother Frost nominated for Reader’s Choice Awa
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Jokes from class today
The question of the day in today’s middle school class was “What’s your favorite joke?” This unleashed a spate of jokes. We all laughed (and groaned) a lot, and I realized that during the pandemic I d
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A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #182 - I will be still an instant and go home.
Lesson #182 I will be still an instant and go home. Are you tired of the bull shit? Do you sense that there must be a better way? Are you ready to focus on that better way in your life? In Alcoholi
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Ending the Pursuit of Happiness, part 1
“I just want them to be happy.” It’s a sentiment commonly expressed by parents about their children. But a life of meaning – a life that feels real – is more important than happiness. Parents who say
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warding off
What some call "warding off" is a Tai Chi movement in which one leg is planted ahead of the other and the hands push forward and as the weight shifts slightly from one leg to the other. It's a moveme
A misty, late winter, lockdowned early morning on Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge
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Ella Fitzgerald First Lady of Song—Focus on Black History Month 2021
In 1972 Ella Fitzgerald sang Mac the Knife with trumpeter Al Hirt at Super Bowl VI in New Orleans as part of a tribute to Louis Armstrong. Broadway star Carol Channing also performed. They became t
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Spirit of Life
Carolyn McDade described the night she wrote the hymn Spirit of Life to Kimberly French of UU World: “When I got to Pat’s house, I told her, ‘I feel like a piece of dried cardboard that has lain in th
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The 6 Celebrity Deaths That Impacted Me The Most
I’ve never invested much time in the lives of celebrities. But a recent round of discussion on celebrity deaths made me realize that some of them did have an impact on me. Here are the six celebrity d
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Not safe for work
I don’t like guided meditations. Perhaps the only guided meditation I’ve actually enjoyed is this one sent to me by a friend. Most definitely Not Safe For Work. One of the things I hate most about gui
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Editorial: Yes, That Is An Odal Rune
The main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference seems unnervingly like an odal rune, a symbol used by the Nazis and other far-right groups in place of the swastika. Continue reading Edi
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Online All-Ages Worship (28 February 2021)
Please join us on Sunday (21 February 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Can We Talk?” by Wealthia Jackson. Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here. We are honored and delighted to welcome All Soul
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