The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
You need not leave your room. Remain seated at your table and listen. You need not even listen; simply wait; just be quiet, still, solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To […]
Put the city up; tear the city down; put it up again; let us find a city. Let us remember the little violet-eyed man who gave all, praying, “Dig and dream, dream and hammer, till your city comes.” Every day the people sleep and the city dies; every day the people shake loose, awake and […]
Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?
I call the following collection of my favorite poems ‘Natural Selections,’ because these are among the poems that have survived in me; they are part of my sacred literature because they speak to me, they nurture my spirit. A recording of all of these poems is available on request. Table of Contents: Robert Frost: The […]
Table of Contents Musical Introduction Rumi: “One Night a Man was Crying” Ecclesiastes Psalm 23 Prayer of St. Francis Psalm 139 Chief Yellow Lark’s Prayer I Corinthians 13 The Successful Life, Emerson (attributed) The Desiderata, Max Ehrmann Psalm 121 Nancy Wood, “My Help is in the Mountain” Reinhold Neibhur, The Serenity Prayer Matthew 6 Wendell […]