Neither Here nor There: Living in a Liminal Season
We are living in a time of profound uncertainty…a liminal season. This morning we will consider ways how to live in uncertain times without truly losing our way.
Continue readingSacred Stories: Discerning Your Roots
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, said, “The person who thinks they can live without myth, or outside it, is like one uprooted. That person has no true link with the ancestral life that continues within each of us, or with contemporary human society.” You need a sacred story. Discerning your sacred story is essential for knowing what will root and sustain you through passions, loves, loss or hard times as an individual and in our community. What does discernment involve and mean? How do you go about creating your sacred story?
Continue readingPraise for Hard Beginnings
Learning to be in community at Westside requires skills, and each of us in our own way ARE still beginners. Building community is not for the faint of heart and requires practice, courage, and the willingness to be vulnerable. Whether beginning to trust, to take initiative, to forgive, to ask for help or give it, or to share a deeper part of our story, let’s explore how we can give and receive the support we need.
Continue readingMystics, Prayer, and Power
Discover the history and message of Buddhist, Christian, and Sufi mystics and the political processes that tried to shape them. What messages do these ancient mystics still have for us today?
Continue readingLoving Our Neighbors at Home and Around the World
A social justice message as to how to love our neighbors both near and far within the context of climate change and oppression. What impacts any one of us, impacts us all.
Continue readingResponsibility without Excuses
Living life without excuses and without crutches because we are nothing but what we make of ourselves. Life could be difficult, life could be unfair; often we have no control over what happens to us, but we do have control over how we react to what happens to us. We do have control over that aspect of our lives. We make ourselves. We Unitarian Universalists embrace uncertainty; we know that the only certainty in life is that actions have consequences. As UUs we have the duty to live well, to live life to the fullest.
Continue readingVolunteering without Guilt
At this service we take time to honor children going through school transitions and bridging out of our congregation. We also honor our volunteers.
Continue readingInto a Foreign Country
Westside UU has endured a lot of change in the last four years. How do we navigate these difficult times as spiritual and financial practices?
Continue readingLife, Death and the Great Mystery
Another school shooting: life, death and then what? “Thoughts and prayers” don’t cut it so what are other realistic options than anger and frustration.
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Joy! Praise Service with LueRachelle Brim-Atkins
The service theme will be “Joy!” and our special guest will be LueRachelle Brim-Atkins, co-founder and principal consultant of Brim-Donahoe & Associates, Seattle. Ms. Brim-Atkins is also co-president of Seattle-Limbe (Cameroon) Sister Cities Association. Brim-Donahoe & Associates provides organization consulting and training in Human Resources Management and Organization Development with clients nationwide. Their primary work is in executive coaching, diversity, race and social justice consultation and training, communication improvement, conflict management, management and supervisory skill development and culture change. As rewarding as change management and equity work can be, Brim-Atkins’ non-profit diplomacy through efforts with the Seattle-Limbe Sister Cities Association is the source of her
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