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May UU NewsUnitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina
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SUNDAY FORUM at 9:15 amSUNDAY SERVICE at 10:30 am
WEDNESDAY CHECK-IN and GAMES at 8:00 pm
All UUFS events are taking place on ZOOM. Zoom log-in information is being emailed to UUFS Members and Friends. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to receive the login information, contact Glen Lakes ([email protected]). ZOOM links are also available on the website, uusalina.org 15 minutes before the event occurs.
May 3
Forum at 9:15 - No, Donald Trump Does Not Get to Decide When States Reopen.President Donald Trump declared that he had the “total” authority to do this. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo then pushed back with an argument about states sovereignty and the 10th Amendment—which says that any power not specifically given to the federal government by the Constitution belongs to the states, or to the people. How do you feel about federal control as opposed to states’ rights? Is this an exception to your usual view? Facilitated by Glen Lakes.
Service at 10:30 – What is a Life? As Covid-19 ravages communities around the world, it’s time to step back and consider “what is a life.” According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, “in 23 states that publicly report death data as of April 23, 2020, there have been over 10,000 reported deaths due to COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (including residents and staff), representing 27% of deaths due to COVID-19 in those states... In six
states reporting data, deaths in long-term care facilities account for over 50% of all COVID-19 deaths. Join Lay Leader Barb Gutsch to discuss the warehousing of our elders.
May 10
Forum at 9:15 - I’m optimistic about optimism. Do you believe that the American people are optimistic about the future? Are YOU optimistic about the future? Are you optimistic about your children’s or grandchildren’s future? Facilitated by Glen Lakes.
The MISSION of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina is to provide a place for personal spiritual growth, within and open and affirming community, actively promoting peace, reason, and the transformation of our world.
Service at 10:30 – Standing on the Threshold of Life. Join Carolyn Gutsch as she crosses the threshold from teen to adult and from student to staff. She will tell us about how her journey on the Argo has informed the next phase of her life, forgoing college and taking a job as a cook and deck hand on a Sailing School Vessel; the tall ship Harvey Gamage. https://www.tallshipsamerica.org/vessels/harvey-gamage/
May 17
Forum at 9:15 - What will it look like after the virus? Here it is: You can predict the future of the world, USA, Kansas, Salina and a few other things like education, health systems, and business. How will our UUFS be affected? Facilitated by Glen Lakes.
Service at 10:30 – Presented by Tim Alt-Duell
May 24
Forum at 9:15 - Let them have dominion over …. every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Humans and their domestic animals now comprise over 90% of the vertebrates on earth. Before the industrial revolution, it was 30%.
And check this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study
What lessons can we gain from these statistics? What others might you bring to the conversation? Facilitated by David Norlin.
Service at 10:30 – Covid Kids. Born in the shadow of 9/11, some of our UUFS kids are missing significant rights-of-passage due to Covid-19. Today we will hear from our UU kids about how they are coping with life at home amidst the novel coronavirus and the precarious threshold on which they stand as they approach adulthood.
May 31
Forum at 9:15 - You don’t think that. This is an oldie, but goodie. Thanks Kent! Barnhouse criticizes a “particularly crappy combination of sweetness and meanness [that has] been coming at me from church people since I was eight years old. There was a line to toe; there was a circle of approved thoughts and behaviors within which to stay if you were to be a member of the group in good standing. If it looked as though you were about to stray, the enforcers descended with that exact tone: ‘Oh, you
don’t think that,’ they would say with a tinkling laugh.” (UU World, Fall 2010, page 19) What
The MISSION of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina is to provide a place for personal spiritual growth, within and open and affirming community, actively promoting peace, reason, and the transformation of our world.
experiences have you had with “enforcers” of approved thinking and behavior in religious communities? Do you ever find yourself tempted to become an enforcer in your UU community? Facilitated by Glen Lakes.
Service at 10:30 – Every age that I have been. “Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be… This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages… but that they are in me to be drawn on…” Madeleine L’Engle Join Lay Leader Barb Gutsch in considering how each of us is who we are
now because of (not in spite of) who we have been in all the years of our life.
IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF OUR FELLOWSHIP
Saturday, May 2nd at 1:00 pm - GET OUT THE VOTE PARADE Meet at the Friendship Center 746 Comanche Avenue
The MISSION of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina is to provide a place for personal spiritual growth, within and open and affirming community, actively promoting peace, reason, and the transformation of our world.
Sunday May 17, immediately following the service, UUFS Board MeetingThe fellowship board meets once a month to discuss important items pertaining to our faith community. All members and friends are welcome to attend these meetings. Members are able to vote on issues that come to a vote during the meeting. Your voice and your vote are important to us!
President – Dianne Neustrom Vice President - David HansonTreasurer and Past President - Diana Tarver Secretary – Glen Lakes Member at Large – Joe Rubino – SpiritualityMember at Large - Rod Franz – Place and Community Member at Large - Mona Hargraves – Transformation Lay Leader – Barb Gutsch
Save the Date:
Jun 7: UUFS Annual Meeting immediately following the service.
Jul 24-28: UUA Virtual General Assembly. The UUA is transitioning this year’s GA to online only. Details are being worked out. Registration is ONLY $150. For more information (as it develops) go to https://www.uua.org/ga.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING OUR FELLOWSHIP
Sermon Podcasts: Have you missed a service that you really wanted to attend? Goto h ttp://uusalina.org/sermon-podcasts.html to listen to audio recordings of our services.
Compassion Fund: If you know of a Fellowship member or friend (person who attends) who might be in need of the Fellowship's support with a food card, cash, or through connections with a local agency, please contact one of our compassion fund team, Jackie Ash, Mona Hargrave and Barb Gutsch.
If you would like to donate to the compassion fund, send a check to the fellowship with “compassion fund” in the memo line or donate via uusalina.org using our PayPal link.
Cards for Cares and Celebrations: If you know of someone that could benefit from receiving a card from our Fellowship, please contact Teri Harrington at [email protected] or call 785-342-4817).
The MISSION of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina is to provide a place for personal spiritual growth, within and open and affirming community, actively promoting peace, reason, and the transformation of our world.
What Does It Mean To Be A People of Thresholds?
When encountering thresholds, we often talk as if our work is that of successfully “passing through” them. We speak of “making healthy transitions.” We seek out advice and support as we decide which thresholds to lean into and which to resist. The goal, it would seem, is figuring out how to travel forward in the right way.
But what if the true invitation of a threshold is not to successfully move from here to there, but instead to just sit and pause? What if we saw thresholds as resting places rather than as those moving walkways that transport us through airports? What if thresholds help us “become” by asking us to just “be” for a while? No moving. Just noticing and naming. Less traveling and more listening.
One of our Soul Matters ministers, the Rev. Sara LaWall, gets at this when she writes, “A [threshold is] a space to imagine a new way, and new self. Not moving or pushing but sitting and cultivating… [the goal] is to allow you space and time to reflect on your past, present, and future. To imagine a new beginning…”
And that imagining and naming may be more powerful than we usually assume. From the outside, it may seem that nothing has changed in our lives, and yet once that imaging takes shape in our minds and hearts, nothing is ever the same. The idea, the dream, the recognition suddenly takes on gravity. And that gravity creates an inevitability that transforms us, sometimes whether we like it or not.
Here’s how the writer Gary Zukav puts it, “At that moment [of realization], a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable... Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known cannot become unknown again.”
So, friends, maybe our question this month isn’t “Are you ready to change?” but “How have you already changed?” How have you already passed through? How is your “threshold work” the work of noticing a shift inside you that has already occurred?
There is, after all, no forgetting it. Only living it. And letting it live in us.
The MISSION of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salina is to provide a place for personal spiritual growth, within and open and affirming community, actively promoting peace, reason, and the transformation of our world.
