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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
December 6, 2020
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
The election is over and our president elect is calling for unity. How do we do that on a family scale? On a community scale? How do you build relationships with people who you see more clearly now? How do you rebuild relationships with people for whom you may have lost some respect? Can you just move forward without addressing the harm that has been done?
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 we share with one another as our struggle becomes our salvation.
Call to Worship
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MISTER ROGERS
Fred RogersIt is very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It is easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition but what is realy exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
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
STAGES OF CULTURAL COMPETENCE
1. Cultural Destructiveness
2. Cultural Incapacity
3. Cultural Blindness
4. Cultural Pre-Competence
5. Basic Cultural Competence
6. Advanced Cultural Competence
Meditation Reading
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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