Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
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The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions on the Board of Directors beginning June 2017. Read more →
Prayer
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I pray every day—more than once most days. I’ll be completely frank and admit that I am not quite sure who or what I direct these prayers to, but that’s okay with me. Read more →
We Open Many Doors
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At the CLF we open many doors to the quiet voice within—and we cannot keep those doors open without your support. Read more →
ACTS Prayer: A Unitarian-Universalist Guide
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Most religious traditions embrace some form of prayer as a part of meaningful spiritual practice. Read more →
From Your Minister
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As I reflect on this month’s theme of prayer, scraps of poems and songs I love dance before me. Read more →
REsources for Living
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I didn’t learn a whole lot about prayer growing up in a UU church in the 60s and 70s. Read more →
Prayer in a Time of Awe
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Holy grandparents of the Universe…energies of creation…endless mysteries of life:
You are the music that sounded before our world was born, Read more →
We Belong to Each Other
The song “From You I Receive, To You I Give” is a beautiful articulation of how we serve one another in community. You can learn this song together as a family and sing it at bedtime, as a meal blessing, or any time you want to celebrate belonging together as a family.
Lyrics: 
From you I receive, to you I give.
Together, we share and from this, we live.
(To lead this song as a round, have the second group enter when the first group completes the line “From you I receive… “)
Listen as Rev. Lynn Ungar sings this song, and then join in!
(Words and music by Joseph and Nathan Segal)
In the Circle of Love
The poet Edwin Markham, who was born in 1852, and became the poet laureate of Oregon from 1923-1931, was invited to read his poem “Lincoln, Man of the People” at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922.
But UUs most often remember him for a tiny little poem that expresses his Universalist beliefs in love that is big enough to include everyone—and offers a radical understanding of belonging. The poem, called “Outwitted,” says:
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
Think about what the poem says: He wanted to shut me out and say that I didn’t belong. He said that my beliefs made me someone who had to be pushed away. But because I live from a place of love, I did something very clever and sneaky—I found a way to include and welcome him, even when he wasn’t willing to include or welcome me.
That’s Universalism—love big enough to offer belonging to every human soul. Not because everyone is like us or even necessarily likeable, but because Love is big enough to include everyone.
