by Sara Lewis This weekend, the new tiny homes at the New Hope Community will become officially occupied. This community sits below the First Christian Church in Downtown Olympia, providing shelter to folks who were evicted from the 4th Ave Bridge tent settlement. These houses truly do provide a New Hope for the residents who […]
Be Still
In this month of holidays and darkness we explore the spiritual theme of “Stillness.” What does it mean to be still? It might mean to stop trying to control, stop worrying, stop striving, stop fighting; stop, relax, wait. To me this suggests that stillness is not a passive thing, but rather like listening, it requires […]
Summarizing Our Month of Healing
Sara Lewis This month’s theme was “Healing”, a theme I found very appropriate as we dealt with a divisive national election and an ongoing global pandemic. The theme wove its way through our congregational life for all of November: Mary spoke to our need to Heal Our Democracy in the worship service on November 8th: […]
Grief and Gratitude
On Thanksgiving Day, about 20 of us from OUUC gathered on Zoom to mark the day, because that’s what we do these days. I lit a chalice, because that is also what we do, with the land acknowledgement created by the Learning Right Relations group: We acknowledge that this land and water is the traditional […]
Guest At Your Table
By Sara Lewis At the drive through last Sunday the youth handed out little cardboard boxes. What are those all about? They are a UU annual tradition, a collection box for the Guest at Your Table program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. I’ve been putting one of those little boxes on my table for […]
