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Sunday, September 14

Purpose and Presence: Your light in dark times

With Rev. Stephen Shick

 

The daily attacks on our democracy and the suffering they are causing weigh heavily on the spirit and can lead to anger and despair.  This is not how I want to live for the next few years. Centering love, as our UU values teach, is a powerful way to fill your life with purpose and enable you to be an inspiration to others. Sunday, I will share stories of people who have done just that.

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Stephen Shick is Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson, MA. He also served our congregations in Haverhill, MA and Portland, ME. Stephen was founding director of the Unitarian Universalist Peace Network and former director of U.S. programs for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and helped to establish Community Ministries within our association. Stephen has taught the art of public speaking to UU ministers and social activists for over 25 years. He is the author of Speaking by Heart: The Spiritual Practice of Unscripted Public Speaking, Be the Change: Poems, Prayers & Meditations for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers, and Consider the Lilies, a collection of meditations.

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It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they say no,
it starts when you say “We”
and know who you mean, and
each day you mean one more

From “The low road” excerpt
Marge Piercy

 

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