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Wise Intention

Right Resolve or Wise Intention is the desire to act with correct intention. It means wishing to do no harm. Just as medical professionals take the Hippocratic oath to do no harm, we can judge each of our actions and decisions with similar scrutiny.

Wise View

The Noble Eightfold Path is the Buddha’s instructions on cultivating liberation, and the fourth of the Four Noble Truths. Like the compass of the 10 Commandments, the 8 instructions point to an ethical and joy-filled life. Over the summer we will look at each one. Ever come to realize how you see a situation or person in completely the wrong way? This first fold—Wise-, Skillful-, Correct-, or simply, Right View names the effort to seek a true understanding of how reality and suffering are intertwined. It gives us a lens for understanding ourselves and our world today.

Ode to Summer

While not an astronomical date, Memorial Day marks a cultural beginning to the summer. Our fertile and fecund hill reminds us that the season of summer has begun. It is also the long weekend we remember who have died in military service for the United States. We will examine together these gateways, birth and death, that mark our time together.

So, Now What?

This will be Yadenee’s last sermon as our Intern Minister before she heads across town to her new ministry at All Souls. Please come hear her speak and join us after the service to wish her well! Then stick around for the Annual Meeting at 12:15.

Secret Language of Flowers; Mother’s Day and Flower Communion

Please join Hope Unitarian Church in celebrating Flower Communion in our service. The Flower Communion Service, originated by the Rev. Norbert F. Capek in his native Czechoslovakia in 1923, is perhaps the most widely celebrated ritual in Unitarian Universalist congregations today. Please bring a flower. The flowers will be placed in vases and you will take home a different flower.

We Are Whole

We are whole, even in the broken places, even where it hurts. We are whole, even in the places where fear impedes our full engagement with life; where self-doubt corrupts our self-love. After a major loss, death or tragedy, we imagine we’ll never be whole again. So often we do not feel whole or complete, and yet many traditions proclaim we are. How can this be? Join us to reimagine how we indeed are whole, just as we are today. Right now.