This week’s message shares a recording of UUCM’s Blue Holiday service, which offers a time of music, poetry, and reflection amid the struggles of this season and the heartbreak of our world. We invite you to come away from all the noise, flurry, and challenge of these days into a quiet, peaceful space where nothing is required of you. May you feel the strength and support of your UUCM community from our hearth to yours. Please click here to view message.

In this week’s message ministerial intern Meleah Houseknecht reflects on why, to choose hope, we have to also choose rest. She shares a simple rest practice from artist and activist Tricia Hersey, a.k.a. the Nap Bishop. Please click image below to view message.

[Visual description: Meleah is sitting in an office with a desk and office chair behind her. With brown wavy hair, she is wearing brown glasses, a dark blue shirt and light blue scarf.]

In this week’s message, Rev. Lisa invites us to nurture gratitude by listening deeply to the words of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address as shared in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s young adult version of Braiding Sweetgrass.  Please click image below to view message.

[Visual Description: Rev. Lisa is standing before a small woods of bare trees and plants. With grey/brown curly hair, she is wearing blue glasses, a black shirt, and a multicolored scarf.]

Ministerial Intern Meleah Houseknecht reflects on her gratitude for the lessons learned in community—through relationships both chosen and unchosen—much like the blessings of a box of fresh vegetables from a community farm share. Please click image below to view message.

In this week’s message, Karen Heuiser talks about how relaying our gratitude should not be something anyone should ever reach their potential on. Gratitude needs to be continually nurtured and cared for in a variety of ways that are as endless and as unique as the acts in which they stem from. Please click image below to view message.