Unfolding Faith: Sermons from Foothills Unitarian

Rev. Sean guides us in a visualization of the past year and how we were changed. What is it you want to remember?

Rev. Sean leads us in a meditation for affirming that we are enough as we are even when we're feeling lonely, stuck, sad, and all the other hard and frustrating feelings that are part of being human.

Rev. Elaine explores what it means to reconnect after a year of separateness equalling safety - what it means to exercise many of the social, emotional, and spiritual muscles we didn't use while social distancing. She reminds us that we are all connected and that returning to togetherness may feel so intense because it is awakening our sense of communion with one another - and communion are intense!

Rev. Elaine shares a personal story of awkwardness and offers a prayer to help us embrace awkwardness, uncertainty, and vulnerability.

Rev. Sean explores how we can find wisdom in the awkwardness of post-pandemic life - how it can be a springboard for connection. He challenges us to sit with awkwardness (a little longer than we might otherwise), to notice what happens in our bodies, and then to choose how we respond.

Rev. Sean guides us in exploring how we keep traditions and rituals alive in a meaningful way. How can we reinterpret old practices to give them new life, making them both playful and purposeful?

Rev. Mariela teaches about duende as authentic self-expression that has an impact on the lives of others and helps connect us with our soul - the most whole part of ourselves. She draws on her experience growing up in Cuba and the work of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca to explore repression, vulnerability, and how duende can free us to be our most whole, authentic selves.

Rev. Gretchen explores how different pieces of ourselves - or who we think we should be or who we might want to be - show up in our style. It is all our work to tear down boxes of what society deems "appropriate" and, instead, dress for ourselves as ourselves. Because when we do, we make it more possible for each of us to show up as we are, fully and freely.