UU rituals and practices: every day for every age. “…ritual is less about profound transitions and more about daily practices…They organize our emotional lives, prompt us to count our blessings along with our grievances, remind us to look up and out more often… They offer a sort of gentle time outside of time.” -Courtney E. Martin on the onBeing blog from September 4, 2015 Creating “gentle time…
I am going to miss going to my Grandparents’ Lutheran church on Christmas Eve this year. It may be weird to hear such a thing from a Unitarian Universalist (a life-long UU, at that), but I really, truly have always enjoyed the Christmas Eve ritual of joining my grandparents in worship at their church. As is the case with many families, Christmastime for my…