Sunday, October 25

Commitment and Failure

Brought to you by the Blue Team 

At the last service that we (The Blue Team) put together on September 6^th, we encountered various snags and technical problems, which left us musing about the nature of failure and questioning our commitment to this new process! What happens when failure happens within a community? 

 How does our response to failure, both ours and others, affect our commitment/covenant to acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations.

 Join us this Sunday as we think about the connections between commitment and failure.

We will celebrate Samhain and connections to our ancestors and descendants. In particular, we will use this time to explore the relationship between grief, love and action in our lives. In a recent talk, Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants”) discussed how grief, whether for a person or the planet, is a mirror of our love. She suggests that grief helps to remind us of what we love, and from that love, we can act to give back - to our families, communities, and even to Mother Earth herself.

Join us to hear UCG members sharing their personal experiences.