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January’s Theme is Story.
The UUFA monthly theme for January is story. The Fellowship offers many opportunities and invitations to explore and practice the theme. We will be exploring the meaning of story and practice of storytelling in the following Sunday services:
Sunday Services
January 5 “Our 2025 Story: Who Are We to One Another?” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
When someone asks you what it’s like being part of this Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, what’s your story? Moreover, what do you want the story to be? Let’s explore who we need and want to be to one another in 2025.
January 12 “Our 2025 Story: Who Are We to Athens?” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
What does it mean to be a Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in 2025? Our Unitarian Universalist faith guides congregations in covenantal action to bring about love, justice, and interdependent flourishing. Who are we called to be or to become in the year ahead?
January 19 Pre-Rev Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs is guest minister.
January 26 “Miles to Go Before We Rest” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
When a long and difficult journey lies ahead, it is easy to become overwhelmed or to focus on putting it behind you. However, what about all the beauty along the way? In this worship service, we explore the stories we tell ourselves about long and difficult tasks and the power of stories that appreciate each movement along the way.
Are you seeking more ways to explore the theme of Story?
Consider reflecting on these quotes:
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
– Maya Angelou
When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don’t go away; instead, they own us, they define us. Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending.
– Brené Brown
At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual.
– Joy Harjo
Stories are told as spells for binding the world together.
– John Rouse
Some questions you may use as a prompt for conversation or for a journal entry follow:
- In your family of origin, what story was told about you? Were you the talented one? The troublemaker? How has that story about you lived on, or faded?
- What story told by or about your ancestors has shaped or supported you the most?
- What do you leave out of the telling of your life story that wants to be let back in?
- When it comes to the story of your life right now, which best describes you: A character in it? The author of it? The editor of it? The bookseller/promoter of it?
- Have you ever been healed or saved by a story?
