Spiritual Survival
Image: “Coffee Klatch” by Ricardo Levins Morales (www.rlmartstudio.com). Used with permission.
Creating and finding sanctuary are spiritual survival skills. In this time when so much is broken and so many of us feel broken, how can we create sanctuary for ourselves and others? Come and know again the light that can shine through the broken places in us all.
Please join us for worship at 9:30 or 11:15 a.m.!
Order of Service: Order of Service December 23
Offering Recipient: Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance (give here)
December Worship Theme: Sanctuary
In ancient times, finding an inn was more than finding a place to spend the night. Certainly, the inn was a place for the traveler to rest, but it also provided safety and healing to the wayfaring stranger. There were no hospitals in those times, so the inn functioned as one. It was a place to tend to the physical body, and to gather one’s spiritual resources for the continuing journey. When we hear the story of the Nativity, when an innkeeper provided a place for the Christ child to be born, perhaps we could imagine ourselves as the innkeeper, and our church as the inn, a place of respite, and healing, a sanctuary. This is one of our strengths as a faith community. We are a sanctuary, a place one can go to find health, healing and community. When people ask, “What do you believe?” We might respond: “Come with me to a place on 34th and Dupont Avenue South. This is a place where people are nourished, where people begin ministries, where people invest in something beyond self interest, growing in community and ever widening circles of compassion.” As writer, theologian, Gary Gunderson writes: “I may have trouble articulating what I believe, it is easy to say where I believe.” This month we explore the where of what we believe.
