The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
My wish for you Is that you continue Continue To be who and how you are To astonish a mean world With your acts of kindness Continue To allow humor to lighten the burden Of your tender heart Continue In a society dark with cruelty To let the people hear the grandeur Of God in […]
dedicated to the memory of Karen Silkwood and Eliot Gralla “From too much love of living, Hope and desire set free, Even the weariest river Winds somewhere to the sea–“ But we have only begun To love the earth. We have only begun To imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope? […]
Within the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring. The gray perished landscape is shorn of color. Only bleakness meets the eye; everything seems severe and edged. Winter is the oldest season; it has some quality of the absolute. Yet beneath the surface of winter, the miracle of spring is already […]
To live each day as if it might be the last Is an injunction that that Marcus Aurelius Inscribes in his journal to remind himself That he, too, however privileged, is mortal, That whatever bounty is destined to reach him Has reached him already, many times. But if you take his maxim too literally And […]
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. Some say that my teaching […]
I can be angry. I can hate. I can rage. But the moment I have defined another being as my enemy, I lose part of myself, the complexity and subtlety of my vision. I begin to exist in a closed system. When anything goes wrong, I blame my enemy… Slowly all the power in my […]
When you walk through a storm, Hold your head up high And don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm, There’s a golden sky And the sweet silver song of the lark. Walk on, through the wind, Walk on, through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown; Walk on, […]
Just as reality intrudes upon the two-year-old’s fantasy of omnipotence so does reality intrude upon the fantastic unity of the couple who have fallen in love. Sooner or later, in response to the problems of daily living, individual will reasserts itself. He wants to have sex; she doesn’t. She wants to go to the movies; […]
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and hinds of the field, Do not arouse, do not stir up love before its own time. I came down to the nut garden to look at the fresh growth of the valley, To see if the vines were in bloom, if the pomegranates had blossomed. […]
Dear Members and Friends, I look forward to returning to Westport this Saturday and seeing many of you at the Crys Matthews concert hosted by Voices Cafe, at worship on Sunday morning, and at Cottage Parties over this weekend and over Presidents’ Day Weekend. What do you value at UU Westport? The Cottage Parties are […]
