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The Unitarian Church in Westport

10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM

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January 25, 2023 by Charles

To Invoke Love by Rev. Sean Parker Dennison

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 […]

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January 18, 2023 by Charles

I Am Resilient by Leah Smith and Chloe Smith

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 […]

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December 23, 2022 by Charles

The Invitation by Teresa Schwartz

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 […]

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November 22, 2022 by Charles

Of History and Hope by Miller Williams

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 […]

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June 8, 2022 by Charles

The Mill by Rumi

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 […]

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April 13, 2022 by Charles

Star-Breath by Joyce Rupp

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 […]

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December 14, 2021 by Charles

Beannacht (Blessing) by John O’Donohue

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 […]

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November 30, 2021 by Charles

The Gift by Mary Oliver

Be still, my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love still as once you loved, deeply and without […]

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October 4, 2021 by Charles

Forever – is composed of Nows – by Emily Dickinson

Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness – And Latitude of Home – From this – experienced Here – Remove the Dates – to These – Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years – Without Debate – or Pause – […]

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August 31, 2021 by Charles

Pilgrimage of Love and Loss – Tom Hearne – SUMMER SERVICE – August 15, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. CHALICE LIGHTING: We light this chalice to remind us of the light that burns within ourselves, and others – and to remind us of our connection to one another. OPENING WORDS – Today we journey together – in this […]

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