Did You Know?
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That the CLF’s Worthy Now website offers education and opportunities for those involved in prison ministry? Check it out at worthynow.org. Read more →
Buddy
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She arrived early Monday morning: homeless, forlorn-looking, carried by the maintenance worker who had found her. Read more →
Blessing
November 2017
You were not just blessed for yourself, you were blessed to be a blessing to others. ―Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Articles
To Be a Blessing
I love my job. I love driving to the hospital each morning, having no idea of what will happen that day—who I’ll meet, what I’ll do, whether there will be triumphs or tragedies, joy or heartbreak, setbacks, small signs of progress or holding patterns. Read more »
Bless One Another
What does it mean to bless one another? Is it an invitation to the divine? Is it an expression of good wishes? Read more »
A Father’s Blessing
I have not forgotten—nor will I forget until all memory fades—the day, the moment, in which my father and I parted. Read more »
Calling on Wholeness
I decided early on in my work as a minister that if someone asked me to bless something, I would say yes whenever humanly possible. Read more »
From Your Minister
Blessings exist independently of time, in the land of the eternal. I know this most concretely in my garden. Read more »
Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions beginning June 2018. Read more »
REsources for Living
Lots of people, UU and otherwise, say a blessing before eating together. And for Thanksgiving it’s even more common. Read more »
Did You Know?
That the CLF’s Worthy Now website offers education and opportunities for those involved in prison ministry? Read more »
Buddy
She arrived early Monday morning: homeless, forlorn-looking, carried by the maintenance worker who had found her. Read more »
Blessing
You were not just blessed for yourself, you were blessed to be a blessing to others. ―Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Read more »
Sacred Vulnerability
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Here’s a quote that I really love:
“Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness. To foreclose on our emotional life out of a fear that the costs will be too high is to walk away from the very thing that gives purpose and meaning to living.”
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Sustenance During Vulnerability
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One of the things that can sustain us in our moments of greatest vulnerability is belonging to a community that we can trust to support us and give us the spiritual resources to continue on. Read more →
The Shadow Side of Vulnerability
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During a sabbatical in the UK a few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting a British Unitarian minister named Jane at a ministers’ retreat. I liked her instantly. Read more →
The Difficult Gifts of Vulnerability
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I’m a grown man. I’m doing time for the second time around in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In other words, I’m not new to this thing. Read more →
A Hazardous Country
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I like the comfort I find when I’m able to be vulnerable. That comfortable space, though, is not easy to find, and from within a prison it may not be the best thing to be vulnerable. Read more →
From Your Minister
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Who are the most vulnerable people you know—both individually and because they hold identities which are marginalized and dismissed by powers and principalities? Read more →
REsources for Living
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What do you choose to do even though it makes you feel vulnerable? Do you speak up in class or in a meeting? How about if you’re not entirely sure you have the right answer? Read more →
