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Rev. Chris Jimmerson
October 17, 2021
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
As a faith without creed, covenantal relationship is one of our primary spiritual/theological resources. We’ll examine some thoughts about how to cultivate relationship, whether it involves forming new relationships or sustaining and deepening existing ones – whether it is with family and other loved ones, together with each other in religious community or involves other aspects of our lives.
Chalice Lighting
This is the flame we hold in our hearts as we strive for justice for everyone. This is the light we shine upon systems of oppression until they are no more. This is the warmth that we share with one another as our struggle becomes our salvation.
Call to Worship
We’re like aspen trees who are mistakenly thought that since we like many trees that is the truth. But under the ground our root system is one. We are fully alive when we we are connected because we are, we were always, part of one another.
– Rev. Hillary Christiani
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. – The King Center
Meditation Reading
The ancient question, “Who am I?” inevitably leads to a deeper one: “Whose am I?” – because there is no identity outside of relationship. You cannot be a person by yourself. To ask “Whose am I” is to extend the question far beyond the little self-absorbed self, and wonder: Who needs you? Who loves you? To whom are you accountable? To whom do you answer? Whose life is altered by your choices? With whose life is your own all bound up, inextricably, in obvious or invisible ways?
-Douglas Steer
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