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This Month
The Theme for August is Embracing Possibility
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes — you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It’s the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand…
Every now and then, the possibilities explode. In these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a “we” that did not until then exist, at least not as an entity with agency and identity and potency; new possibilities suddenly emerge, or that old dream of a just society re-emerges and – at least for a little while – shines…
-Rebecca Solnit
Song of the Universe
Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti
Can you still hear the song? The one sung for you
when you were born…
Listen carefully … Can you hear it still? A song of possibility.
A reminder that we still have time to be who and what we need to be…
Our Real Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born
Margaret J. Wheatley
I can use the term conscious community and islands of sanity as pure synonyms because they are. We have to feel that without this group I will not be able to do my work in this chaotic, confusing world… I cannot do meaningful work of the quality I know I am capable of unless I am in conscious, committed relationship with these others.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. -David Nicholls
For a New Beginning
This beginning has been quietly forming
Waiting until you were ready to emerge…
Noticing how you willed yourself on
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety…
Wondered would you always live like this.
John O’Donahue
“Justice is at the core of our faith.” We have added a Social Justice page to our site menu. See our latest ideas, actions, and projects for justice. Ideas to make the world a better place for all.
All are Welcome
We meet every Sunday at 10:00 am at 1950 East Brundage Lane.
You are invited to Sunday Morning Service to see if you belong with us.
More information see below
For the Curious
We invite you to explore this site and learn more about who we are. On this site, you can learn What to Expect in Worship, you can read our About Us page, our Mission, Vision & Covenant page and our Beliefs page.
Services are held at 10 AM every Sunday, at 1950 East Brundage Lane, Sheridan, Wyoming. We hope you’ll stay for coffee, treats and conversation after service. On the fourth Sunday of each month, we’ll also have a potluck; even if you don’t bring a dish, we would love to share lunch.
For weekly program listings, see: Upcoming Worship Services. For past service presentations written by fellowship members see: Presentations from Past Services The meditation group meets every Sunday at 7 PM at the same place. For details see: Meditation Group.