We won’t know how the story ends until we get there, but we can decide what words we use to write those stories.

Choice by choice, we make an effort to live out what we say we want, and who we claim to be.

Today in UU congregations all over the world, people will gather in an effort to live into, as best as we can, what we profess about placing love at the center of all we do.

Hope is challenging, if not impossible, to grasp alone.

Hug the prayer before it leaves your body. Float it along like murmuring leaves.…

Holy one, for you I will watch and wait.

Anger is not at all what people think it is. Anger has been kind and caring to me.

Joy arises like a gift, beyond my own deserving.

The old story of the nativity speaks to us anew

Let our rest be a resurrection. Let the veils be lifted so we can feel, see, taste, and smell the power of our rested selves.

Rest isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to survive and thrive. Rest isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human. Rest is a divine right. Rest is a human right.

Because we are in a constant state of unraveling from the lies and socialization of grind culture, we must be intentional about reimagining what we believe rest is and can be for our lives.

I’ve found it helpful to think about parts of my life as cycles or spirals instead of a single, often meandering path.

The legacy of brutality surrounding labor, sustenance, and survival for those enslaved on plantations and their descendants is striking…

When I think about the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, chattel slavery, and plantation labor, I am stunned by how much we have chosen to forget that capitalism was built from these systems.

Rest is resistance because it is a counternarrative to the script of capitalism and white supremacy for all people.

Holiness is within us; wholeness is around us.

Rest is not a luxury, a privilege, or a bonus we must wait for once we are burned out.

Our liberation is deeply connected to the portal of healing we can tap into when we rest. Wherever our bodies are, we can find rest, ease, and liberation.