The Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough

I write this while still high on our ‘last’ service of the church year. We had an incredible morning of celebrating...singing and dancing and eating together.

But of course this wasn’t our ‘last’ service. Though my vacation lies within sight, my mind has already turned to what comes next here at the Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough. We have at least four big things happening in the coming church year, and for a pretty small congregation, a lot will be expected of us. I got to thinking...hoping really...that our theme for this past year, “How Shall We Live”, might help us to navigate all that is to come.

Over the year, we looked at living generously and with gratitude, living with imagination and amazement, living with commitment and courage. We talked about how we might live ethically, and justly, and hopefully, as well as how to best live together.

So I thought I’d just see if I could get your wheels turning along with mine. How shall we live as we celebrate our 50th anniversary? How shall we live as we enter into covenant with a ministerial intern? How shall we live as we take another step in our long range plan and begin to ponder the question of space and building? How shall we live as we commit ourselves to an education program on Indigenous cultures, issues, and histories?

Well, perhaps we should have had a service about living patiently, and on always assuming best intentions of each other, because I’m sure we’re going to be rubbing up against ideas and each other in new and sometimes challenging ways. But, I also believe that if we pause to take a breath and to ask ourselves to really consider how we want to live and act, then we will move through all of these transitions with love and vision.

As we shift perspectives and priorities, what has been first will become last, and what has been last, will soon be first. So turns the wheel of our lives...and all shall be well.
Blessed are you, my friends.

Julie