Share the Plate May 2023
This month’s Share the Plate recipient is One Hopeful Place. https://onehopefulplace.org
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This month’s Share the Plate recipient is One Hopeful Place. https://onehopefulplace.org
I brought Liam down with me last week, and in between fellowship obligations, we made it to the beach for a few hours. We also caught one of the Hobbit trilogy movies on the hotel TV. It made me think of how the four of us used to pile in the bed together and Bill … Continue reading Rev. Ruth’s Reflections – May 5th, 2023
As we celebrate mothers and the mothering we all give and receive, we will also have our annual Flower Communion! If you can, please bring one or more flowers to add to our communal vase. Everyone will leave with a different bloom.
Cassie will be assisting Liz Wilkins in running our fantastic RE Program. We are so pleased to welcome her and her son to the UUFEC family.
TV Dinner Theater Friday, May 5th, 2023 at 6:00 pm This is a community event open to all for sharing music, poetry, comedy and other brief amateur stage performances. Some material may not be appropriate for children.
Transitional times are tricky. Like the god Janus whose two faces turned in opposite directions, we keep trying to look back and focus on the past, and also to look ahead and get our bearings for the future. We temporal creatures only live in one direction, traveling through time at the speed of one second … Continue reading Rev. Ruth’s Reflections – April 28th, 2023
Don’t forget! Congregational Meeting Sunday, 30 April 2023, after Sunday Service. Members will vote on the Finance Committee’s proposed budget. UUFEC President will launch a volunteer drive, and make the formal call for nominations.
I’ve had Disney World on my mind lately. Every trip has been a mixture of delight and disaster. My first trip at age five, I got a stomach bug and had to stay in bed most of the trip. The next time, my little brother pulled a pot of hot coffee over on himself and ended up … Continue reading Rev. Ruth’s Reflections – April 21nd, 2023
Reflection: Celebrated my 56th birthday this week. It was a quiet family affair after my 5-hour drive home from the coast. Bill, Angus and I ate takeout barbeque ribs and stuck a candle in a delicious lemon icebox pie. Angus loves the candle bit and helps to blow it out no matter whose day it … Continue reading Rev. Ruth’s Reflections – April 14th, 2023
You are invited to join the UUFEC social justice meeting via Zoom on April 27 at 6 pm. Please email justice@uufec.org for the link!