Transformation doesn’t happen in a linear way. It happens in cycles, convergences, explosions. If we release the framework of failure, we can realize that we are in iterative cycles, and we can keep asking ourselves—how do I learn from this? From Emergent Strategy by adrienne marie brown This month we explore the third word in […]
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A Few Words from OUUC’s Parish Nurse
Our Parish Nurse, Ann Yeo (who was musing about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday), recently did a Google search on the subject of gratitude. That search explored the many benefits of practicing gratitude – benefits for our physical, mental and emotional, social, and spiritual health – and Ann decided to share some of that information with […]
Living With COVID
“The goodness of life is ours if we look deeply for it and give thanks for what we have and who we have it with.” Daniel C. Kanter, “The Birds Will Sing’” in Shelter in This Place: Meditations on 2020 With heavy hearts, we once again took the Thanksgiving Potluck off the OUUC calendar. This […]
Thinking Generations Ahead
Last Saturday the youth group went out to help with a tree planting for the Nisqually Land Trust. We spent a morning (miraculously without much rain) all working together planting over a hundred native trees and shrubs in what had been an agricultural field. Afterward, the Land Trust staff took us all to the river […]
Leadership at OUUC
Our Leadership Development Team is gearing up to present a slate of candidates for 3 positions on our Board, and 3 on the Leadership Development Team (LDT) at the Spring Congregational Meeting. We opened our last meeting with these words from “Serving with Grace: Lay Leadership as a Spiritual Practice” by Erik Walker Wikstrom – […]
