The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
One night when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered what I would become-and where I would […]
On the low wall of my garden There stands a tiny shrine, Half-hidden In the shadow of the trees. When I am weary of this sad world, And of man’s turmoil and strife, I steal off to my shrine among the trees. There, with silent prayer and incense, I find my soul again – And […]
The spider, dropping down from twig, Unfolds a plan of her devising, A thin premeditated rig To use in rising. And all that journey down through space, In cool descent and loyal hearted, She spins a ladder to the place From where she started. Thus I, gone forth as spiders do In spider’s web a […]
During this season of gift giving, a good exercise is to make a list of the best gifts we ever got. That will tell us what is important, for ourselves and for people we want to give gifts to. While I remember a Daniel Boon hat and a magician set with special affection, the nicest […]
Probably every generation sees itself as charged with remaking the world. Mine, however, knows it will not remake the world. But its task is perhaps even greater, for it consists in keeping the world from destroying itself. As the heir of a corrupt history that blends blighted revolutions, misguided techniques, dead gods and worn-out ideologies, […]
There are these: the blue skirts of the ocean walking in now, almost to the edge of town, and a thousand birds, in their incredible wings which they think nothing of, crying out that the day is long, the fish are plentiful. And friends, being as kind as friends can be, striving to lift the […]
O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the wind and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me! I come before you one of your many children, I am the small and weak. I need your Strength and Wisdom. Let me walk in Beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red […]
O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will & wit, purity, probity, pluck & grit. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind, and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice — these little blessings would suffice to beget an earthly paradise: make the bad […]
O Life that makest all things new, The blooming earth, the thoughts of men, Our pilgrim feet, wet with Thy dew, In gladness hither turn again. From hand to hand the greeting flows, From eye to eye the signals run, From heart to heart the bright hope glows, The seekers of the Light are one. […]
The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination’s tongue, grief, mercy, language, tangerine, weather, to breathe them, bite, savor, chew, swallow, transform into our flesh our deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince, living in the […]
