September 11, 2024

"When you put your hand in a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Beloveds–

This Sunday, we will celebrate Water Communion, which since the 1980s has become a tradition in many UU congregations in which congregants bring water from home or from a place they have visited or from a place that has special meaning to them, and we pour our separate waters into a shared container. Water and the various rituals we humans create with it are highly symbolic. This year, our service will invite you to think about water as it flows and about our lives and shared experiences flowing between what has gone before and what will come.

If you can, please bring a small container of water to church. It might be from a place that is meaningful to you (or from the kitchen tap, to which it has flowed from somewhere). You might choose to have it represent an idea or an experience which holds meaning for you. During the service, we will have time to pour our separate waters into one bowl and watch to see what story flows out of our gathered waters.

Yours in in the grace of flowing like water,
Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org