Finding Abundance
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The earth is our horn of plenty. She sends forth all manner of delicious food. She flowers and sends forth fruits and vegetables. She dances wheat into the wind, sprouts and bathes rice, and draws corn toward the sky. Season to season the earth provides. Read more →
The Answer is “Everything”
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I haven’t always been abundance-minded or able to see or believe in life’s silver lining. Read more →
Abundance
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The CLF exists through the abundance and generosity of its community. Some give with their time, some with their presence, and some with money—and we are thankful for every gift! Read more →
Be a Stream, Not a Swamp
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I invite myself to grow my sense of abundance in these ways… Read more →
From Your Minister
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The story is told of Mulla Nasrudin, the Sufi wise fool. A rich man came to see him and said, “Nasrudin, if only you would learn to flatter the emperor and be subservient as I do, you would not have to live on chickpeas and bread.” Read more →
REsources for Living
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What gives you a sense of abundance—a feeling that you have plenty, that you are satisfied, that there is enough to go around? Read more →
Did You Know?
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…that CLF offers religious education curricula to use at home or for congregations with mixed-aged groups of children? Read more →
Raspberry
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Almost October, and there it was,
draped over the fence,
ripe as July, and as seductive—
a stranger’s bit of paradise. Read more →
A Prayer for Labor Day
“We’re thinking about resistance more than resilience here in New Orleans.” -Rev De Vandiver, ten year anniversary of The Flood
Here’s to all who resist!
Resist assimilation
Resist cooptation
Resist oppression
Resist ignorance
Resist consumerism
Resist the certainty of others’ diagnoses
Resist complacency
Resist numbing out
Resist the same old same old
Resist being taken advantage of
Resist the hissed whisper to be quiet, settle down
Resist what is given, and instead create what is needed.
Here’s to all who create!
Create new stories, with new life springing forth
Create laughter and tears
Create gardens and delicious meals from them
Create music and its deep companionship
Create relationships that defy labels
Create deep rootsCreate beauty
Create courageous actions
Create what will carry us to a new day.
Here’s to the new day!
May it dawn bright for all, condemning none to nightmares
May it bring hope grounded in reason to hope
May it bring evidence for hearts to trust that love is real
May it bring joy and the simple abundance of enough.
Here’s to Labor Day, to the humble imperfect work of us all.
Seen and unseen, paid and unpaid, respected and unrespected.
Here’s to our real work together
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.”
