Log:
Hooray for sunshine! This morning the rain stopped long enough for me to go to church. This week I went to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. This truly is a participatory service! Our chairs were arranged in a circle and they asked people to share their experiences with female divinity in celebration of the upcoming solstice. I appreciated that their religion has built in room for curiosity; it is a Petri dish for spiritual diversity. I also appreciated that they don’t argue with one another, they just share experiences and gain understanding about others’ perspectives. I feel as though I could almost go to this fellowship every week and see so much religious diversity throughout the summer. However, I want to keep moving even to see more narrow perspectives, because I understand what they’re saying at the UU Fellowship, it’s almost as if my work were done there. I will go back if I manage to round up another other interested folks to join me. Leave me a comment if that’s you! After the service I enjoyed my long walk home. Sundays are very meditative for me. I stopped to enjoy the sunshine and appreciated the lines I could see in my life all coming together: a lot of folks want to change the world to make it better religion and sustainability initiatives are just two of such avenues (I’m reminded of Lydia McCauley’s lyrics “with every breath we are taking, we are being changed, with every breath we change the world”), we want to believe in something (even the move Hook encourages us to rekindle our inner child who sees magic all around), “God has made of one blood all peoples of the Earth” (as I go places and tell how I got there I feel as though I’m an ambassador for Berea College and doing so reminds me of its ideals even more), watching the birds fly and remembering our tour guide yesterday in absolute awe of nature’s wonder, and the list goes on…


Questions:
-What’s the closest UU Fellowship to Berea?
-How have you felt Grace today? (I welcome your comments, I changed a setting so it should be easier to respond)
-How have my religious affiliations affected me throughout my life?

• Unitarian Universalist

Feelings:
I felt completely accepted at the UU Fellowship. That was probably the most comfortable I’ve felt in a place of worship in a long time.