Sermon

So many of us want to make positive change in our lives, our families, our communities, our world. But sometimes the forces of inertia and “the way it’s always been done” makes it feel like the system is conspiring against us. With inspiration from gardens, nature, mystics, and radical systems thinkers, we are invited to reframe the ways we create change and “live in” to the living systems that surround us.

Rev. Sarah Gibb Millsapugh is UUA Congregational Life Staff in the Pacific Western Region.

• Living Into the Living System Transcript and suggested service elements (PDF)
• Living Into the Living System (Vimeo)
• Living Into the Living System (with embedded captions) (Vimeo)

Suggested Readings

• Reading 1: “My Ancestry DNA Results Came In” by Fred Lamotte
• Reading 2: “The Growing Edge by Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman

Suggested Hymns

• 123 Spirit of Life
• 1064, Blue Boat Home
• Olam Chesed Yibaneh by Menachem Creditor.