In the Intervals
We grow up. The earth remains a child.
Stars and flowers, in silence, watch us go…
Rainer Maria Rilke
I know a place where in glorious intervals life
is eternally new. You come to it through […]

Words to Move the Spirit
Every part of this soil is sacred in the
estimation of my people. Every hillside,
every valley, every plain and grove, has
been hallowed by some sad or happy
event in days long vanished.
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Let me suggest a modest proposal which, I believe, can help solve the financial problems of the Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson. The proposal is this: take this congregation off of your “charity” list! Do I have your attention yet? If not, I beg you! Remove this congregation from the list of causes and […]

Freely you have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:8
When you see someone practicing the Way of giving, aid him joyously, and you will obtain vast and great blessings.
Buddha
Sutra of Forty-two Sections 10
God loves a cheerful (hilarious) giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
It is therefore our business to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigor and maturity […]

Minister’s Considerations
January is a month of new beginnings, or so we like to think. We make resolutions and then find just how habituated we are to old habits. On the first Sunday of the year we will ceremoniously “burn the chaff,” all those things that prevent us from living lives free of unhealthy desires and […]