{"id":135965,"date":"2022-04-11T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=135965"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:35:55","slug":"awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5776\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-135965-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=135965-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2022-04-10_Awakening.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Chris Jimmerson<br \/>April 10, 2022<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Many of us are engaged in a lifelong process of awakening to realities that are different than what we were taught. It is a process that can feel liberating and help us awaken to our own, full creative potential. So, why are we witnessing such a backlash against wokeness.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Chalice Lighting<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Love and Justice are not two. <br \/>Without inner change, there can be no outer change. <br \/>Without collective change, no change matters.<br \/>You make an actual vow, <br \/>hear the crys of the world<br \/>step into the experience of awakening <br \/>to the suffering of the world <br \/>and the desire to bring an end <br \/>to that suffering.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Affirming Our Mission <\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Meditation Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, <br \/>coming back to this life from the other <br \/>more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world <br \/>where everything began,<br \/>there is a small opening into the new day <br \/>which closes the moment you begin your plans. <br \/>What you can plan is too small for you to live. <br \/>What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough <br \/>for the vitality hidden in your sleep. <br \/>To be human is to become visible <br \/>while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. <br \/>To remember the other world in this world <br \/>is to live in your true inheritance. <br \/>You are not a troubled guest on this earth, <br \/>you are not an accident amidst other accidents <br \/>you were invited from another and greater night <br \/>than the one from which you have just emerged. <br \/>Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window <br \/>toward the mountain presence of everything that can be <br \/>what urgency calls you to your one love? <br \/>What shape waits in the seed of you <br \/>to grow and spread its branches <br \/>against a future sky? <br \/>Is it waiting in the fertile sea? <br \/>In the trees beyond the house? <br \/>In the life you can imagine for yourself? <br \/>In the open and lovely white page on the writing desk? <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; David Whyte<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Sermon<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Text of this sermon is not yet available.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 22 years are available online through this website. Click on the index link below to find tables of all sermons for each year listed by date (newest to oldest) with topic and speaker. Click on a topic to go to that sermon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/category\/sermons\/indexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>SERMON INDEX<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Podcasts of this and other sermons are also available for free on iTunes. You can find them by clicking on the podcast link below or copying and pasting this link. https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>PODCASTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Chris JimmersonApril 10, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Many of us are engaged in a lifelong process of awakening to realities that are different than what we were taught. 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