Readings
Opening devotions for a committee meeting
We come together as a group of individuals with diverse needs and diverse gifts.
May we rise to the responsibility vested in us by our fellow members of this chapel and make our decisions wisely.
May we discover that delicate balance between the needs of the individual and the interests of the greater community.
May we listen to
Such quiet ecstasy
Deepening
Falling
Sinking
Into Spherical Endlessness
Such Peaceful Reverie
Expanding
Absorbing
Melting
Into Vibrant Spaciousness
Such Simple Profundity
Bathing
Gliding
Opening
Into Anointed Presence
Streams of Light and Nectar
Fill my Being
In Delight
Granting Blessings and Purifying –
My Baptism
Of Service,
My Refuge
Of Self,
My Becoming
Into Being,
My Inner Worship.
Rev. Jenny Miller, Interfaith Minister
Inner dancing
Luxuriating Light
Flashes and Sparkles
Dancing to Joy
As the Double Base
Of the Dantien
Steadies the Beat,
Grounding the Rhythm
Of His excited Apsaras,
Catching vibrations as they twirl –
No effort to their Grace.
The cold floorboards
Compliment the Heat of the Dance
In the Open Hallway of my Mind.
Heart-flames caress my cheek
Reminding me,
“I’m Here” –
No distance to
Dance with my Unveiled Self
Who tunes her
Let us give thanks
A prayer for use at the General Assembly Annual Meetings, 2022
Let us give thanks for:
The meeting organisers
The secretaries and letter writers
The minute takers
The small-change counters
The safeguarding officers
Those website wonks and brave Zoom managers
The article writers
The flower arrangers
The meeters and greeters
The biscuit providers
The gloved washer-uppers
Those who dust, mop and vacuum
The chair stackers
The car-lift givers
The hand holders
Those
Now and then
Now and then somebody calls at the old chapel.
Searching, – for solitude, tranquillity, history or more likely – ancestors.
As they make their way up the ancient flagstone path they wonder whether they’re walking in the footsteps of their long dead relatives.
Is this the way that their great grandparents walked to their wedding? Were they nervous?
I am a Unitarian
For me, Unitarianism is a form of religion and a philosophy.
More than this, it is a pathway – a way of life.
There are ways to be a Unitarian presence in this world, and ways to live Unitarianly.
As a Unitarian I can’t just believe whatever I want, but whatever I can and must.
My Unitarianism causes me
A prayer to the watchmaker
Dear God,
I once read in a dusty old theology book that you are like a watchmaker who put the mechanics together, wound up the story and laws of the universe, but then stepped back as eternity began to tick by…
Second by second, moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
It makes some sense –
Why I am a Unitarian
I joined the Unitarians at a point that when I was feeling somewhat bruised from my previous experience of religion and also feeling a little lost in life. I suppose I was giving faith a final chance.
A few months before, someone had said to me “You sound like a Unitarian!” so I thought I should