This week people in many parts of the world are preparing to celebrate the Jewish holy days of Passover, the Christian holy days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, and we are still in the month of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting in the Muslim tradition.

Our living Unitarian Universalist tradition draws from many sources including wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life; Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves; spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature; among several other sources.

For those of us who may have been wounded by other religious traditions, it can be a struggle to deal with the concept(s) of God, and still, this Unitarian Universalist faith invites us into that wrestling, into the possibilities of healing, especially the kind that grace bestows.

For those of us who have reclaimed religious language and/or defined for ourselves what concepts of divinity mean, we may have already been blessed by grace, a benevolent sense of wholeness and wonder that we may not have expected or earned, and yet experience(d).

May grace find its way to you.

Rev. Wendy and Rev. Lynn