Members and friends,
May this find you well. I am still smiling from a wonderful day with many of you at Ferry Beach on Saturday and a joyful Sunday morning both in worship and with a fabulous new group of A2U2’ers in our New to UU class on both Sunday and Tuesday. The longtimers, newcomers, and all of you in between make this community endlessly fascinating and meaningful to serve.
This coming Saturday you are invited to the Celebration of Life for Shirley Curry which I will co-lead with Rev. Alison Buttrick Patton, the Minister at First Congregational Church, UCC, in South Portland. The service will be held at First Congregational, where Shirley served as Music Minister for over 50 years, at 10:30am. I am looking forward to this opportunity to honor and celebrate such a special person.
On Sunday our service, “War No More,” will hold space for us to examine the anti-war origins of Mother’s Day. We’ll revisit the Mother’s Day Proclamation of 1870, written by poet and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, a plea for women to resist war and work for peace after the devastating loss of too many husbands and sons in the Civil War.
We are, once again, a nation at war. How does the language of this 1870 call to action resonate today? How do our Unitarian Universalist core values shape the ways in which we think about war and peace in this time in our history?
I look forward to being together. Until then, may your days be blessed.
In faith,
Rev. Tara