Love and Hope — two of the most uplifting of human experiences — aren’t exactly the same thing, but they certainly need one another to survive.  The thing that unites them must be positive.  But maybe that thing isn’t all warm sunshine and sweet kisses. Personal Reflection  Dorothy Lemmey “To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will…

(With guest musician Laura Silverman) Call to Worship and Chalice Lighting Rev. Denis Letourneau PaulWelcome into this circle, as we metaphorically dance in Sarah’s Circle, Siblings of all genders, from a variety of social locations to worship….to give shape to and name some of the myriad things that are important to us, individually and collectively. We gather to nurture this community and…

Reading by Akaya Windwood, “Don’t be Nice, Be Kind,” from an article in Yes magazine Niceness is often filled with falseness-it is a way to not tell the truth,or to obscure it. “Be nice!” is something many of us heard as children asa way of avoiding upsetting someone. While niceness might be a strategythat gets us through an immediate situation, it is…