The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Discard the myths and legends for what they are Strip away the accretions of the centuries Abandon the traditional pagan observances The feasting and drinking The spurious good will End the materialism, the commercialism, the whole whirl of activity And what will remain? With unimagined clarity, we will experience an intermission, a quietness, a stillness […]
We march through this tunnel This dark, everlasting tunnel But I wonder I wonder if the sun is rising I wonder if the light is coming This is for the best That once we have marched through the tunnel to get to where we need to be Maybe the sun will shine on our beautiful […]
On Monday you make pancakes, pay the bills, clean the floor, wipe down the counters, and begin chopping vegetables for soup. As the knife slices the onion thin, you peel away its outer layer and consider committing seppuku at noon. On Tuesday you start the Crock-Pot, dust the blinds, rake the leaves, strip the beds, […]
To invoke Love is to ask for a hug from a thunderstorm, spill tea in the lap of the infinite trickster, to make the biggest, most embarrassing mistake of your life in front of everyone who matters. To invoke Love is to never know if it will come softly, with the nuzzle of a beloved […]
I am resilient I trust the movement I negate the chaos Uplift the negative I’ll show up at the table, again and again and again I’ll close my mouth and learn to listen These times are poignant The winds have shifted It’s all we can do To stay uplifted Pipelines through backyards Wolves howlin out […]
We know the story: an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds. The glory of the Lord shone around them. A great light descends on dark fields, happy angels and cherubim sing for joy, play their lutes, and dance about to defy the gravity of earthly cares. In our happy Christmas narratives, we can […]
We have memorized America, how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silence we say the words, telling the stories, singing the old songs. We like the places they take us. Mostly we do. The great and all the anonymous dead are there. We know the sound of all […]
The heart is like a grain of corn, we are like a mill; how does the mill know why this turning? The body is like a stone, and the water its thoughts; the stone says, “The water knows what is toward.’ The water says, ‘Ask the miller, for it was he who flung this water […]
I lie awake on summer’s greening grass soon to be soft with evening’s dew I lie expectantly, silently, waiting for a presence to breathe upon me. With the first sigh of the evening star my heart responds to a distant touch, a wisp of recognition, a waft of joy. Life-giving breath of the galaxies sails […]
On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue, come to awaken in you a meadow […]