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By Sandy Greene May 6, 2024 Wow, what a perfect topic for this pollen palooza spring!  And for the flower communion. (Pollen and nectar are like the sacraments!) Wind Pollination is the oldest and most obvious. Oaks, hickories, grasses, willow, pines. The bulk of our entire ecosystem here in the Shenandoah Valley!    So much pollen just taking a chance that it might land on the right kind of dangly flower racemes so that an acorn or hickory nut can develop.  It has to be the

March 17, 2024 Presenters: April Moore, Barbara Moore, Lee Anna Farrall, Andrew Henry, Pete Rapp, Linda Dove With the coming of light after long winter darkness, it’s a good time for us to look forward to the turning of our seasons. With this service, if a little prematurely, we contemplate Spring Meeting Summer. Poetry is an ideal medium for us to contemplate the various responses of human beings to seasonal changes, especially for us in the Shenandoah Valley blessed with al

By Tom Hook March 3, 2024 One of the Article II Revision’s Shared Values is: Transformation .          We adapt to the changing world. We covenant to collectively transform and grow spiritually and ethically. Openness to change is fundamental to our Unitarian and Universalist heritages, never complete and never perfect. (article II Revisions Shared Values) __________________________________________________________________ It doesn't matter how old we are. We all need stories

February 4, 2024 By Rev. Kirk Ballin READINGS FOR LOVE AND ONLY LOVE 1.” Soberingly, despite all our advances in technology and material resources, we are not much more advanced in the art of delivering emotionally healthy childhoods than generations before us. The number of breakdowns, inauthentic lives, and broken souls shows no marked signs of decline… We are failing to offer one another tolerable childhoods not because we are sinful or indifferent, but because we still ha

January 7, 2024 Rekindling the Light by Merle Wenger I would like to open this sharing part of the service with a message provided by our UUA President Sofia Betancourt in a sermon we might air at a later date.  The sermon focuses on the seeds we are planting for new year and the expectations we have for their fruit. (I paraphrase)During Covid we weaved our faith into community care. We built magical bridges and those bridges bring us into the present but require tending. Whe