The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
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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Oddly enough, sometimes our social media, although created with the aim of connecting people, can cause us to feel more isolated than ever. We know how people in the most remote areas of the world are suffering and yet we do not know what is happening to our next-door neighbor. But it is not just […]
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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This past Sunday I offered a line in my sermon that has hit home with some of you. I said, “Courage is our heaven and fear is our hell. Fear is the real Satan among us. It robs us of reason and strength and keeps us from knowing one another.” What did I mean by […]
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Last Sunday I closed our worship service with this short poem from Dawna Markova: I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
All that may happen, all that we’ve seen, All of the lives, we’ve lived in between… Is that all gone for good? What are the chances… What we lost in the fire; we’ll find in the ashes? Well, I had a dream; it was just me and you. It was finally spring, and the world […]
Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow. And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. […]