The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Dear Friends, Losses come in a variety of ways – and sizes. For example, a few weeks ago on my way home at suppertime I stopped at Stop and Shop, like the name suggests, and got dinner. It wasn’t until the next morning, while in my office, that I noticed my wallet was not in […]
Many of us are here because of what we don’t believe. Many of us were raised in a Christian church and were told that Jesus literally was born of a virgin, rose bodily from the dead, descended into hell, and later ascended into heaven ‘to sit at the right hand of the Father.’ We didn’t […]
So, this is the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox – it must be Easter. The name comes from the Saxon goddess of Spring, Estre. Easter is about Spring – new life. Pablo Neruda. the Nobel-prize winning Chilean poet has a line in his poem On Keeping Quiet: “Perhaps the earth […]
Dear Friends, In addition to several new members this winter, our church was chosen by a pair of red-tailed hawks. They were spotted mating in a tree just outside my office. Last week when Judy Constable’s family was gathered in the memorial garden to inter her ashes, one of the hawks sat in a tree […]
Opening Words: “At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? What am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? … It is wise in your […]
Dear Friends, I’ve started to re-arrange things, cleaning out the office by bringing stuff home — family photos and tchotchke –you know, those little trinkets you accumulate, given as gifts that hold memory, so they have sentimental value, but wouldn’t be shown on the Antique Road Show or even be sold at a tag sale.
Opening Words: Salutation To The Dawn, By Kalidasa (Hindu) Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth The glory of action The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow […]
This morning we welcome the Neighboring Faiths Class from the Unitarian Church in Danbury. Dylan Dempsey wrote a brief essay for Tufts University, where he is now in his second year. He wrote: “When I was twelve, my parents switched churches, from a white-steepled Congregational edifice to a glass-walled Unitarian wonder. They switched so I […]
Dear Friends, The salutation for my Soundings letter never felt more appropriate, following on the Valentine-bombardment. I’m very touched. I spent a couple of hours opening and savoring them on my day off last Wednesday, thinking: ‘Love is the spirit of this church.’
The sermon title comes from William Blake’s poem, written in 1810, which opens: Deceiver, dissembler / Your trousers are alight / From what ole or gallows / Shall they dangle in the night? As you know, Lance Armstrong cheated. First of all, he cheated death. At age 26 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had […]