Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday morning worship begins at 10:30 a.m. at UUFA and online on the zoom platform.
Find links to join the service, submit a Joy, Sorrow or Milestone, fill out a visitor’s card, and access past services on the View Services Page.
November 3 “Fortifying Our Spirits – Rooted in Community”
Chaplain Michelle Leebens-Mack and UUFA Music Director Amber Fetner lead the service.
November 10 “May the Clay Dance Beneath You” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
The words of the poet John O’Donohue evoke the power of imagination to catch and hold us amid grief and loss. What is imaginative mourning? Let us gather in the ritual of our annual bulb ceremony, remembering those who have passed, and weaving their love into our future.
November 17 “The Gem at the Root” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
At the very inception of this Fellowship, a gem was formed. Can you find it glimmering today? Join in worship and fellowship afterward, as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens! All are invited to celebrate with cake, fall festival engagement, and building tours afterward.
November 24 Rev. David Key will be UUFA’s guest minister.
Reflection Ideas and Questions
Are you seeking more ways to explore the practice of repair?
Consider reflecting on these quotes:
Let us not rush to the language of healing, before understanding the fullness of the injury and the depth of the wound. – Dr. Yolanda Pierce
Then it hits me. Maybe we’re the pieces. Maybe that’s it. With what you were talking about before, Tikkun olam. The world being broken. Maybe it isn’t that we’re supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we’re the pieces. Maybe, what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking. – Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
She taught me it is enough to sit
with someone who is grieving—
to sit and listen with your whole body
as if eyes could hear as well as ears,
as if a person’s silence is as essential as her words. – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
The times are urgent; let us slow down. – Bayo Akomolafe
Some questions you may use as a prompt for conversation or for a journal entry follow:
- If you could have repaired one of your parent’s wounds, which would it be?
- Is your body telling you it is no longer interested in hiding the pain? Or the fear?
- How might your efforts to repair a social ill or injustice be trying to repair you?
- Are some things better left broken? Does everything need to be repaired?
- Nature repairs us. What part of the healing earth is calling you to come back?
