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Rev. Chris Jimmerson
May 15, 2022
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
We tend to think of beauty as something we experience, but we also are capable of creating it. Nurturing beauty in our lives may be essential to our spiritual well being.
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
Beauty awakens and admonishes us.
We are here in a religious community not to hide from the anquished cries or the tender lullabyes.
We are here as a religious community not to protect our hearts from breaking.
We are here together to borrow courage with the task of coming alive.
We are here so that together we might heed the admonitions of beauty to answer the call to create, protect and preserve.
– Mary Katherine Morris
UUSC
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Moment for Beloved Community
8 REASONS
Amanda Gorman
- When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion after the rape, you know this isn’t about caring for women and girls. It’s about controlling them.
- Through forcing them into motherhood before they’re ready, these bans steadily sustain the patriarchy, but also chain families in poverty and maintain economic inequality.
- Pregnancy is a private and personal decision and should not require the permission of any politician.
- For all time, regardless of whether it’s a crime, women have and will always seek their own reproductive destinies. All these penalties do is subdue women’s freedom to get healthy, safe services when they most need them.
- Fight to keep Roe v. Wade alive. By the term “overturn Roe v. Wade”, the main concern is that the Supreme Court will let states thwart a woman’s path to abortion with undue burdens.
- One thing is true and certain: These predictions aren’t a distortion, hypothetical, or theoretical. Women already face their disproportion of undue burdens when seeking abortions. If the sexes and all people are to be equal, abortion has to be actually accessible and not just technically legal.
- Despite what you might hear, this right here isn’t only about women and girls. This fight is about about fundamental civil rights. Women are a big part of it, but at the heart of it are freedom over how fast our families grow goes farther and larger than any one of us. It’s about every single one of us.
- This change can’t wait. We’ve got the energy, the moment, the movement, and the thundering numbers.
Meditation Reading
WALKING AMONG TALL GRASS
Rev. Chris Jimmerson
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