As we think about who we are as Greater New Orleans Area UUs, a few discerning questions may help take us deeper together:

• What is the purpose of religion? What is the purpose of Unitarian Universalism? What is the purpose of our congregation(s)?
• What is the saving message of our faith? Of our specific religious community? How do we reveal and extend that message in everything we do?
• What is our story that we tell ourselves?  Is it true?  Who are we called to be as a religious community? What do we want our story to be that they will be telling a generation from now?  What do we need to let go to get there? What do we need to learn to get there?
• At the end of the day/ week how will they have known we were Unitarian Universalists?

Perhaps we will share some of our insights with each other around the campfire or the picnic tables or on a nature walk or sitting by the pond....

(From the Growing Unitarian Universalism blog: http://growinguu.blogs.uua.org/ )
 

A moment of reflection on this Friday:

 

“I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one.  The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list.  The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves -- we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together.  We are each other's destiny."
-- Mary Oliver, Winter Hours