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Category Archives: grief
Doom & Bloom: Reflections on Climate Grief
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ August 11, 2019 Perhaps you know in your body. Perhaps you know in your head. Perhaps you know in what Buddhists call your heartmind, that deep place of coherence beyond the binary, beyond the … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, grief, Hope
Tagged climate collapse, climate constriction, climate grief, Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell, Work that Reconnects
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I Want You to Panic: An Earth Day Sermon
When it comes to climate change, climate changeD, climate chaos, climate constriction, climate collapse…whatever you call it — preaching hope is not a straight-forward thing. Continue reading
Posted in Earth, grief, Sermons
Tagged climate change, climate constriction, climate strike, Greta Thunberg, islands of sanity, sermon
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A Lamentation for Violence (in Two Voices)
October 28, 2018 Spirit of Life and Love, Possibility of Mercy and Peace, Impulse towards Compassion, Yearning for Comfort in times of Fear, our hearts echo these words from the poet Warsan Shire: We lament the very fact of this … Continue reading
Posted in grief, Prayers, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged ritual, Tree of Life synagogue, violence
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#metoo prayer ritual
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Remembering to breathe and to breathe deeply and then once more, to take the breath in and let the breath out, we pause, poised as we are, at a point of risking, at a … Continue reading
Posted in grief, Hope, Justice, Spiritual Practice
Tagged #metoo, brave, preventing sexual assault, ritual
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And the Welcome Will Be Wide: It’s Not About the Bathrooms (sermon)
The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, New Jersey And the table will be wide. And the welcome will be wide. And the arms will open wide to gather us in. We are fortunate that here in New Jersey: more protections for the rights … Continue reading
Fear of Fueling Islamophobia: A Few Days Out From the Orlando
My grief — at the Orlando massacre and the barely imaginable loss of life, and its intentional targeting of the gay community — is not separate from my fear. I fear that in the aftermath of this intentional act of … Continue reading
Weeping & Walking & Welcoming My Inner Turtle
At dusk, an unscheduled detour and stop at the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, a place of calm for a very long time in my life. It is up a steep trail in a clearing in the woods on a hillside. … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, grief, Spiritual Practice
Tagged embodied spirituality, go slowly, gratitude, grief, inner turtle, Peace Pagoda, spiritual practice, surrender
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A Prayer for Those Lost in the Orlando Massacre
June 14, 2016 Shriver Job Corps Devens, Massachusetts I am sad. I am mad. I am afraid. These small words keep repeating in my head and heart. We are here to give voice to our grief because of the lives … Continue reading
When the World Is Sick: Grief at the Pulse
I mourn these beautiful dead. In my head and out loud, I cannot stop singing this song, with my voice much louder on for the second line. When the world is sick, can’t no one be well But I dreamt … Continue reading
Posted in grief, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged orlando massacre, prayer, pulse, we are orlando, when the world is sick
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