20251019 Choosing Presence Over Projection

Eileen Workman writes:

You are not weak for trembling in the face of cruelty.

You are not naïve for hoping when the sky darkens.

You are not failing because you cannot fix it all.

You are part of something ancient and emergent:

a slow, deep evolution of consciousness

that transcends the need for violent revolution.

You are part of the sacred turning.

This Sunday, we consider how this “sacred turning” is revolutionary. In the face of all the emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual turmoil that seems to be free-floating through our universe at the moment, what might we learn from the poet who reminds us:

You are not here to silence the oppressor,

but to make oppression obsolete

through the gentle, radical embodiment of wholeness.

The Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester (UUCW) is located in Worcester, the heart of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Our services are live-streamed on ... at 10 am every Sunday and stored on our website www.uucworcester.org for future viewing. The music you hear is from "Song Without Words," written and performed by our Music Director, Matt Johnsen.