The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thro’ all its […]
Be gentle with one another The cry comes out of the hurting heart of humanity. It comes from the lives of those battered With thoughtless words and brutal deeds; It comes from the lips of those who speak them, And the lives of those who do them. Be gentle with one another. . . Who […]
Be gentle with one another— It is a cry from the lives of people battered By thoughtless words and brutal deeds… Who of us can look inside another and know what is there Of hope and hurt, or promise and pain? Who can know from what far places each has come… Our lives are like […]
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 […]
Sometimes I’m sorry not to be able to remember my own beginning I do remember a few fleeting moments at age three or four – maybe even at age two But not even enough for a short poem Not even enough to sweeten the morning coffee Not even enough to light my Uncle Al’s cigar […]
Each one of us journeys alone to this world and it is our nature to seek out belonging. Each of us carries a unique world within our hearts. Each soul is a different shape. No one feels your life as you do; no on experiences things the way you do. Your life is a totally […]
The shadows of doubt dance precariously around the edge of reason with open arms they taunt me to trust them and jump head first into the darkness that surrounds them only to find reflected in their souless eyes mine own filled with tears that hold my dreams captive prisoners of my own fears unable to […]
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon […]
There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau Let us agree for now that we will not say the breaking makes us stronger or that it is better to have this pain than to have done without this love. Let us promise we will not tell ourselves time will […]
To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even to the holy places but will not let you rest, will not […]