In an era when it is becoming clear that industrialized nations under a system of global corporation-controlled capitalism need to change quickly and dramatically for the benefit of all life, we will be called to experience generosity, gratitude, and hope in new ways.

Disturbance opens the terrain for transformative encounters… Humanists, not used to thinking with disturbance, connect the term with damage. But disturbance, as used by ecologists, is not always bad—and not always human.

Self-compassion was one of the best gifts I gave myself.

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but something began to change.

If we believe in the promise of our faith, we must continue pushing forward.

Emergence, becoming, is inherent in each of us.

I am no longer a victim of change: I am shaping the world that is to come.

It’s important to honor the footprint others leave on our heart.

What once seemed certain is now unpredictable, even dangerous.

A lot of us feel like our lives should have come with instructions. Or maybe they did, but we lost the only copy a long time ago.

One: To become is a life long process. Nothing is constant, not even the self. We evolve in the midst of narratives meant only for some and ways of being made narrow by fear and power. We must, then, have the courage to listen to the truth of our own lives, to the wisdom that comes from within—...

Sometimes grief sends notice ahead of time; sometimes, it shows up as an unwelcome, uninvited guest.

We are grateful to mark time with seasons, to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, or to gather as family to remember our loved ones. In all these seasons, may we give thanks for the breath of life, ever mindful of the fragile nature of existence. May we live fully in each moment....

Shirley Chisholm was asked why she, a Black woman, was running for president: "You don't have a chance. Why are you doing that?" And she said, "Because I am in love with the America that does not yet exist," and that's how Unitarian Universalism is also....

When we can gently hold things steady, change comes from within; that’s where the real growth happens.

Who are you going to be, today? And tomorrow? Who are we all becoming, together?

Everything is about to change. And it already has. It will be. It was. It is. The dawn you eagerly await to end the long, cold darkness is already full sun far off in the east. Yet even after light’s return spring is months away. Thirty long years pass after His birth before the Messiah comes.

Once I quit drinking, my inner voice and I began the harder work: that of creating a life from which I do not need or want to escape.

"We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change."...

May we find unexpected ways to remember where we came from and imagine where we may go next. May we find touchstones of our pasts, and may they become a foundation for the future.