What Are We Learning?
Rev. Tina Squire from the Sky Island UU Church, during the Baja 4 Sunday Service on April 26 (CLICK HERE to view), led a ritual inviting us to name what are learning right now. She takes inspiration from a poem by Nancy Cross Dunham.
Rev. Tina is collecting your responses at her email: Russkirev@gmail.com
Rev. Tina is collecting your responses at her email: Russkirev@gmail.com
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In the ritual, Rev. Tina asks:
What have you learned about grief? What have you learned about love? What have you learned about anger? What have you learned about hope? "I hope you take time
each day to honor these feelings." Rev. Tina Squire 
"Vivid Emotions" by Olha Darchuk
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"What I'm Learning..."
by Nancy Cross Dunham what I'm learning about grief ... is that it need not be a heavy gray shawl to wrap myself in, clutching my arms tightly across my chest nor ... need it be a granite rock that I should try to push away neither is it ... ... at least, no longer ... a vast dark ocean ready to pick me up and slap me down without warning what I'm learning about grief ... is that it is not me, but that it offers to become a friend a friend ... who will lightly lay a hand on my shoulder when tears come in the dark a friend ... who will laugh out loud with me at remembered silly moments a friend ... who can still hear the music of our life what I'm learning about grief ... is that this friend doesn't intend to leave me but promises to hold my hand to carry my memories a friend ... who will bear witness to my love as I venture toward the next day and the following night |