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Between "One upon at time...." and "lived happily every after", there is the middle bit where real people live most of their life. There are several distinct...

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This service reflecting on endings and offering a chance to symbolically release the past with our burning of debts ritual.

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The universe does not revolve around you. The stars and planets spinning through the ball room of space dance with one another quite outside your small life. You cannot hold gravity of seasons: even air and water inevitably evade your grasp. Why not, then, let go? … Listen, every molecule is humming its particular pitch. Of course you are a symphony. Whose tune do you think the planets are singing as they dance. -- Lynn Unger You belong here in this extraordinary universe. I belong here in this beautiful world. We are so lucky to be alive.

Rev Gail Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist of Santa Fe

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Let Christmas come, its story told, when days are short and winds are cold; let Christmas come, its lovely song, when evening’s soon and night is long. Let Christmas come, its great star glow, on quiet city, parks of snow, let Christmas come, its table gleam, love born again: the truth of dream. John Hanley Morgan Choose your sound track – carols or symphonies, jazz or the winter wind.

Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist of Santa Fe

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There is something of the pagan in us all – something that responds to the great spinning Earth that calls us to worship daily, that fills our soul, that heals our spirit, that enables us to greet the new day and the new season not with dread but with anticipation. –Richard Gilbert Lie back and watch the sky or the shadows and feel the great Earth spinning

Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

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This service was a response to the YouTube video "Peace Salaam Shalom" also called "Peace Through All People". The song was written as a response to 9/11. Af...

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Dark, dark, dark the days, dark the month: see where the dark earth’s shadow lengthens, lengthens, dark, toward solstice day. Well, come then, let us make our lights, here in the dark, in the shadow, our lights, our Advent lights, our Chanukah lights, our farolitos – our little lights, let us kindle our solstice fires, our luminaria, our Christmas lights. Let us make light until the season turns and the dawning comes… adapted from John H. Morgan in Celebrating Christmas, ed. Carl Seaburg This week kindle a light in the darkness.

Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

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"Waiting and Hoping" sermon Rev. Marriner is struggling with the tension between the traditional content of the holiday season and what is happening in the w...

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This Thanksgiving don’t hesitate because you are not certain who or what you are thanking – it doesn’t really matter. Thank God or Goddess, Jesus or Lakshmi, Mother Earth, the Ancestors, the Spirit of Life, or the farmers and the workers who brought your feast to the table. Thank them all! Do it out loud around a table, or silently in your heart, or on paper, or over email, or Facebook or Twitter, or in your blog, or all of the above. Voice your gratitude. Make your thanks broad and inclusive.

Rev Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

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The recent attacks in Paris have led to a backlash against refugees. Rev. Marriner reviews the earliest history of puritans, their struggle to survive their ...

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In a time of rapid cultural and environmental change, what gives us hope?

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As the winter holidays approach, I wonder if we might adopt a practice from scholar and teacher Wayne Mueller. In his book, A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough, Mueller suggests that rather than live on autopilot, we pause throughout the day to ask ourselves, “what is the next right thing to do?”. And then do that thing – even if it isn’t the next thing on the list. Perhaps we might find ourselves navigating our days with a little more ease and a little less stress. Try it. Let me know what you think.

Rev Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

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I’m very sorry, but it’s inevitable. Whether we are talking about a person, a job, a relationship, a vacation or a congregation – disappointment is a given. ...

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Mother Clare Watts is the founder and director of the Centers of Light mystical Christian schools and communities. She presented her views of Mystical Christ...

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Who is blessed? Who is loved? Unitarian Universalists inherit the understanding that all souls – no matter how imperfect, broken or fragile are held in the hands of life, and are cherished. And so I offer you a blessing for All Souls adapted from the Rev. Natalie Bolz–Webber in her book Accidental Saints 166-168 Blessed are the agnostics. Blessed are those who doubt. Those who aren’t sure, who can still be surprised… Blessed are those who have nothing to offer… Blessed are they for whom death is not an abstraction. Blessed are they who have buried their loved ones, for whom tears could fill an ocean. Blessed are they who have loved enough to know what loss feels like. Blessed are the mothers of the miscarried. Blessed are they who do not have the luxury of taking things for granted… Blessed are they who can’t fall apart because they have to keep it together for everyone else… Blessed are the motherless, the alone… Blessed are those who “still aren’t over it yet”. Blessed are the forgotten … The closeted… The unemployed … Blessed are the wrongly accused… Those without documentation … Blessed are the foster kids and trophy kids and special ed kids and every other kid who just wants to feel safe and loved… Blessed are the burned out social workers, the overworked teachers and the pro bono case workers… Blessed are the kids who step between the bullies and the weak… Blessed are all of those who suffer. May they know they are loved. May they be cradled in God’s hands.

Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe

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Rev. Marriner examines human pain and the difficulty in understanding and responding to other people's pain. She uses the book "The Body in Pain" by Elaine S...

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The kids and I were trying on sunglasses the other day–polarized and amber, evenly tinted and darker at the top, blue, pinkish, mirrored. Sunglasses are funny. When you first put them on you are aware that each pair of glasses makes the world look a little different but when you wear them a while, you forget that they tint or filter what you see. Its easy to think that the world really is dim or kind of golden. Imagine if we could try on world views as easily as we can put on a pair of glasses. What if we could try on a theist perspective, a mechanist one, an optimistic world view, a conservative frame of reference, a liberal perspective or a nihilist paradigm? What if we could experiment with how we perceived reality? Which world view would you choose?

Rev Gail Lindsay Marriner, Minister, Unitarian Univeralist Santa Fe

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