Jake Morrill

Rev. Jake Morrill smiles, outdoors, with a wooden building behind him.

Rev. Jake Morrill (he/him/his) served the UU Church in Oak Ridge, TN as lead minister for 19 years and now works as a leadership coach and consultant. You can contact via his website Generation to Generation Leadership Coaching.

From Jake Morrill

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In the foreground, a slice of pecan pie and a hot beverage sit on a table. In the background, there's a merry decorated Christmas tree.

For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | December 15, 2021 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Advent, Food, Grace, Patience, Worship
A person's hands shape a clay vessel on a potter's wheel.

I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | September 22, 2021 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Contemplation, God, Meaning, Presence, Purpose, Transcendence, Worship
Swimmers in the waves of the sea look to a pink sky, where a murmuration of starlings forms a striking shape.

The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | November 25, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: #COVID19, Contemplation, Death, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, God, Imagination, Nature, Transcendence, Worship
An assortment of brightly colored holiday sweaters, in profile, lined up as they hang together

An adequate Christmas would have you calm and open, taking it in, accepting whatever is. Slow it all down like you might be, in some way, attuned to the pace of the Eternal. If you need, you can fake it at first.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | November 29, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Advent, Balance, Challenge, Choice, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Courage, Direct Experience, Family, God, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Thanksgiving, Winter Solstice / Yule
A perfectly spherical bubble floats in front of a blue sky and puffy white clouds

What's my favorite weather? When the wind whips your face, you're alive, and you can think what you will.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | April 26, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Diversity, Humanism, Individualism, Integrity, Purpose, Searching, Secular, Work
Six wild geese, in flight against a pale sky

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature, it must seek God, who is love." —Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th century Germany For twelve years, Daisy has been the...

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | March 8, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Animals, Christianity, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, God, Imagination, Lent, Love, Nature, Presence, Sacred, Searching, Unitarian Universalism
Through a plate glass window at night, a person ducks through rainy weather with their coat pulled over their head.

.I want liberty and justice for all in my country. That will ask of me—and of many of you—the discipline of discomfort.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | January 11, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Challenge, Change, Democracy, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Politics, Secular, Strength
Against a violent orange smoke, a helicopter hovers over a forest on fire.

Those of us with some privilege in this empire may be tempted to seek refuge in it, as if privilege was ever going to save us. But who’s to say whether you’ve come to this place and position for a time such as this?

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | November 9, 2016 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Brokenness, Commitment, Despair, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Judaism, Politics, Secular
A thick pane of glass is shattered, with hundreds of radiating cracks

Our whole life is a series of signs. Any slight action: a dim semaphore. Our redemption, if it happens, will mean somebody tried.

Reflection | By Jake Morrill | September 21, 2016 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anger, Belief, Brokenness, Caring, Direct Experience, Fear, Humanism, Redemption, Secular

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