Have you ever wondered how people become UU ministers? In our tradition, ministers are ordained by congregations–not by bishops or other ministers. This is part of our congregational polity. Six years ago, QUUF members invited me to consider the call and launched me on a journey of becoming. Today will be a reflection on the … Continue reading Answering the Call: Becoming a UU Minister
Building community is an ongoing spiritual practice of our UU Fellowship. And UU is a faith tradition built on the foundational practice of covenant. A congregational covenant is not merely a matter of wordsmithing. It is first a matter of faithful discernment within a big and beautiful religious question, “How are we to live?” This … Continue reading Covenant: the Beating Heart of our Faith
On this first Sunday of the autumn season, falling apples, the promise of deep orange squash soups, and the chill of southerly winds encourage us to return to the hearth of our faith community. Today is an invitation to receive and share the gift of yourselves with one another. Let us come and gather strength … Continue reading Stirring the Soup
There is a time for a divisive spirit in a community. This spirit, paradoxically, may be a healing spirit, like a fever that causes a rise in temperature to burn out what no longer serves the body. Today we’ll explore fiery transformations and the creative possibilities they may offer. Victoria Poling is a Unitarian Universalist … Continue reading The Refining Fire of Transformation
Many of us are relying on our daily patterns and routines to give us steadiness and comfort in these times. Some of us struggle with a lack of routine, some of us with a lack of needed change and growth. At times we are pushed to our limits of longing for both connection and freedom. … Continue reading The Peace of Pattern
Join us this Memorial Day Sunday as we remember ancestors and loved ones who have gone before us. Where might we find hidden treasures in the fragments and memories of their wild and precious lives?
Music: Pat Rodgers, piano and Linda Bach, voice
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Entangled by the search for truth, solutions, and justice in our world, we may quest to get to the bottom of the issues and find ourselves in a pit. At the turning of the year, let us remember this radical, life-giving hopelessness: surrender and return home to our souls. Click here to listen to the … Continue reading Return to the Home of Your Soul
If there were a bright star shining in the East right now, where might it be directing us? What kind journey would it be calling us to begin?
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A music service in which a brave soldier with a fiddle enchants a fair lover, new beginnings come from another beginning’s end, and courageous fire breaks out in five-four rhythm.
About Victoria Poling: Victoria Poling is in her second year of studying to become a UU minister at Seattle University. She is currently working as a Chaplain Intern at a retirement home in Seattle and holding spiritual deepening workshops for social justice activists.
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