Story/Message: Steve Leete Today’s service is about a special telescope. I have a telescope here, that can be used to look at stars, the Moon, planets, and other things like nebulas and galaxies, from here on the ground. It’s only useful at night, when it isn’t cloudy, because when it is cloudy you can’t see…
In these times, travel isn’t what it once was, yet new experiences, milestones, and transitions continue to be facts of life. We are transported by web conference or YouTube or fiction to other times and places. We may be traveling to different identities or states of being: graduating, retiring, grieving, welcoming children into the world,…
Two members of UUCSS discuss their personal experience with grief following deaths connected with military service. Evelyn discusses the loss of her father to the war in Vietnam. She recounts the impact of this grief on a nine year old girl who loved her father dearly and the implications of this loss into her adult life,…
Our lives travel over ups and downs. Sometimes we notice when our paths join with others or when they diverge, sometimes we don’t. The landscape shifts as we learn new skills, live through challenges, the world changes and we change; we don’t always notice when we’ve moved into new territory. Sometimes, though, we come to…
Our January theme of the month is integrity, which is an easier word to say than to practice. It helps to have role models, even if their stories didn’t happen exactly in the way they are told. It seems to me that mythology, fiction, and maybe even history can supply us with examples of values…
If you’re on the Worship Committee, you may know that finding the image for the cover of the Order of Service is a part of preparing the service that I find delightful and meaningful. I have decided that I’ve been selfishly holding on to this task rather than sharing the ministry, so I’m looking forward…