This participatory, art-based worship experience invites people of all ages to explore curiosity, humility, and wonder together. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s invitation to “love the questions themselves,” participants will encounter the five sacred questions—Who? What? Where? When? and Why?—as invitations to explore, create, reflect, and discover new possibilities. Through creative stations and shared experiences, children and adults alike will have the opportunity to journey together, embracing questions not as problems to be solved, but as doorways into wonder and deeper understanding.

Often when you hear about people talk about healing, it seems like a linear journey. "I have already worked on that issue" comes up many times. In reality, healing is more like a spiral. A different version of the same issue can show up over and over again. Being vulnerable, and learning to have compassion for those who trigger us and for ourselves can feel like hard work.

As children, we show off our scars with pride as proof that we survived a challenge; as adults, we seek to minimize and hide them. But what if, like artifacts, we excavated and studied our scars, peered into them, looking for answers to who we are in ways that we may not always understand or easily relate to?

This is a much-loved annual tradition at many UU churches, ours included. We will have our Bread Communion in the Fellowship Hall after services on Sunday, November 15. If you can, please bring bread, or a dish whose main component is bread. Homemade or store bought is fine! If you have a gluten-free bread, please label it as such. Alternately, you can bring something to put on the bread - butter, jellies, cheeses, etc. Have your breads sliced ahead of time, so the people who set up our tables do not have extra work or miss the actual services.

Sometimes, living authentically requires the perspectives of those around you who can help guide your life's direction when you aren't able to make the decisions. On this, my 47th birthday, I want to take this opportunity to welcome my father from Florida and share a few anecdotes from my life that illustrate the humor and blessings of gratitude, regardless of whether you meet expectations from the start.

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