The Unbroken
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There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable. Read more →
Brokenness
March 2016
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
Articles
Brave Love
Adorning almost every Protestant church is a cross—inside, outside, over the altar, in the vestibule, in the minister’s office, and sometimes many stories high on top of the building. Read more »
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
What must it have been like for folks living through World War I, 1914–1918? The horror of that war is still something I struggle to understand. Read more »
An Apology
In the January 2015 “Transformation” edition of Quest, I had a sermon titled “Transformation vs. Acceptance.” In that sermon I gave passing mention to Jane Rzepka for the concepts I was writing about. Read more »
Human Feelings of Brokenness
We often feel so alone and isolated in our very human feelings of brokenness. Read more »
Broken
Have you ever come to a place in your life where everything is broken? Not only that, but broken by you? Read more »
Midori and the E Strings
When Midori Goto was three years old her grandmother gave her a 1/16 violin for her birthday. Her mother and grandmother sensed that music was one of her gifts, and they were right. Read more »
From Your Minister
According to some folks, everything wrong in this world is because of one disobedient woman who listened to a snake. She just had to eat that apple, and then everything that was whole became broken. We were all doomed. Read more »
REsources for Living
One of the most important lesson we learn—and try to teach our kids—is that when something goes wrong or breaks, we need to take a deep breath and figure out how to fix it. Read more »
Did You Know?
You can keep up with the many online events that the CLF offers through our website calendar. Read more »
The Unbroken
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. Read more »
Brokenness
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway Read more »
A Forgiveness Ritual
Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs wrote a ritual of forgiveness for Unitarian Universalists, based on the Jewish Yom Kippur service. In this ritual, everyone repeats: “I forgive myself and I forgive you. We begin again in love.”
When someone hurts us, or we hurt others, the goal is not only that the person who was hurt forgives, we also need to forgive ourselves, and to start over in love. For those times when someone hurts you, or you hurt someone else, you might want to keep this in your pocket: “I forgive myself and I forgive you. We begin again in love.”
A Lesson in Forgiveness
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The Days of Awe—the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—are considered the High Holy Days in the Jewish tradition—significant moments that even secular Jews may celebrate in some fashion. It’s the New Year, after all. Read more →
Forgiving the Broken
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I believe that our human survival depends on waking up to our connection with the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Read more →
Radical Forgiveness (Excerpt)
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Corrie ten Boom was living with her older sister and her father in Amsterdam when Holland was occupied by the Nazis. Read more →
Hall of Records
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In the Administrative Department of my heart, which is down the hall from Feelings, Major, I wrote down the time you offended me. Read more →
Finding Forgiveness
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Note from Meg: As we welcome Danny Givens as our new CLF prison chaplain, I’ve asked him to take my place in this issue to share some thoughts on forgiveness. Read more →
An Opportunity to Give
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One thing is certain, each one of us will be given opportunity after opportunity to practice forgiveness towards ourselves and others over the course of our lives. Read more →
REsources for Living
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The evening of September 22nd this year marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which is often known as the Day of Atonement. Read more →
