Worship

Sunday Reflections on Water 07/07/2024

07/07/2024

Shape Shifting:  Lessons from Water

Time for All Ages (TFAA) and music are our Sunday sermons this summer. In July, our worship services center on the theme of WATER. Here is the TFAA story and music for reflection from Sunday, July 7, 2024. May their lessons resonate with your spirit.

Time For All Ages: Reflect on the Story

Book: Tale of the Sands

(Listen and watch the read aloud video below, or read the e-book online, free. It’s also available in print at your local library or bookseller.)

The Tale of the Sands by Idries Shah

Reflect on the Music

“The Waves We Give” by Beautiful Chorus (This song was inspired by the words of Bruce Lee)

Lyrics

Be like water, my friend

You shall find a way around, or through it

When nothing within us stays rigid

We decide the shape we’re in

Empty your mind

Be shapeless, formless, like water

It can flow or it can crash

And we design the waves we give

We decide, we design

We decide the shape we’re in

And the waves we give

Questions for Reflection

  • How can emptying your mind help you to see new possibilities?
  • How can we decide the waves we give?
  • Was there ever a time when your first judgment of a person or a situation was wrong? How did this affect your relationship or connection to the people around you? Do you know where this feeling originated from? How can you avoid this in the future? Forgive yourself and promise to be more flexible like waves in the water in the future.
  • Think about a time when your rigidity in a disagreement caused further conflict. When looking back, would being more flexible have improved the situation? How could you have been more flexible? In the future, try to be more flexible like the waves in the water.
  • Was there ever a time when your value system was tested? Did your heart and your mind not align in the same resolution? Have you ever had to re-evaluate your value system in order to more align with your heart? Let your heart bend and be flexible like the waves in the water.
  • As you move throughout your week, are there any ways you can make your heart and mind more flexible and open to change so that they are free to move with the force and the motion of the waves?

DRUUMM Village at General Assembly (June 19-22, 2024)

05/29/2024

UUA Connectional Event: The Power of Our Stories, Our Unity, and Our Love (Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Event Info)

DRUUMM Village at General Assembly 2024 is a virtual event concurrent with the UUA General Assembly. (General Assembly is the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Annual Meeting.)

The Village is where members of DRUUMM (and those curious about us) can have the opportunity to fellowship, be seen, be heard, and be held in beloved community and in faith. We will hold space for you and for each other. Whether you have registered for the main UUA General Assembly or not, DRUUMM Village programming is open to all People of Color in Unitarian Universalism and BIPOC friends of DRUUMM. Our events will be held virtually via zoom or YouTube, and are predominately BIPOC-only spaces.

This year’s DRUUMM Virtual Village will feature:

  • DRUUMM In Gathering- Wednesday- June 19, 5:30 pm EST
  • Virtual Meditation Brunches and Connection- Thursday- June 20 & Friday- June 21, 10:30 am EST
  • Annual Meeting- Saturday, June 22, 10:30 am EST
  • Virtual Party with Music a various offerings from the DRUUMM community. – Saturday, June 22, 8:30 pm EST

Interested in joining DRUUMM? Wildflowers can sign up via our Group Membership Form. Event Registration links are sent directly to DRUUMM members.

Membership is open to those who affirm DRUUMM’s mission and values, self-identify as a Black, Indigenous and/or Person of Color/Person of the Global Majority, and make a modest, meaningful, contribution of presence at one or more of our events or programs each year, volunteer at any of our DRUUMM events or community projects, and/or support financially (as you are able). (Wildflower had paid for a group membership. There is no fee for an individual to join through our Wildflower DRUUMM membership.)

Rooted – Black Sacred Worship – June 1, 2024

From the Wider Community (Invitation to this sacred gathering for Black the Community)

The next ROOTED gathering, on Saturday, June 1, at DAWA HQ, 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 4, Ste 109, in East Austin.
ROOTED is a bi-monthly Black sacred collective worship experience by and for black folxs of all faiths.

Our spiritual gatherings honor Black wisdom, music, rituals, ceremonies, healing, and text from many experiences and traditions.

Families with children are welcome.
Elders are welcome.
ROOTED is LGBTQIA+ affirming.

DAWA (Diversity Awareness and Wellness in Action) is a platform that invests in BIPOC community and culture.
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