Cultivating relationship with nature is one of the great joys of living in the Pacific Northwest, with its forests and meadows, beaches and mountains. Many of us cultivate our souls as we cultivate the earth – or at least some tiny patch of it – learning life lessons as we do so. When I planted … Continue reading Lessons of a Red Bud

Description When and how have you experienced being fully at home in your body? What experiences or ideas have caused you to leave your body, or to see is as something other than you? How might we come home to our bodies, and why might we want to? Click here to watch the service.

Psychologist of religion Kenneth Pargament coined the phrase “spiritual orienting system” to describe the “habits, values, relationships, and beliefs that express one’s spirituality or sense of the sacred.” While many Unitarian Universalists don’t find the notion of a God or gods particularly salient (and some reject the notion and language of spirituality), every one of us has some means of orienting ourselves in life. According to Pargament “…the degree to which the spiritual system is well-integrated, flexible, differentiated, and benevolent” impacts how life-giving or life-limiting it is. How is your SOS working for (or against) you?

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