Hello, dear ones~

There is a moment, brief, and most often unnoticed, that is the pause between each inhalation and exhalation. Our bodies do this on our behalf. If we pay attention, and if we choose to, we can make the pause even longer. This week, there will be such a pause in the Earth’s journey. On Wednesday, at about 4:47pm, the Earth will reach the furthest southern point in its elliptical journey around the Sun, and begins moving northward. There is seemingly a pause, as the angle of the Sun is so low to our location before it starts to climb in our view, again.

We wish for you, such a pause… a time when you can be more aware of where you are, and where you are heading.

Winter Solstice, by Rebecca Parker

(available on Worship Web, https://www.uua.org/worship)

Perhaps

for a moment

the typewriters will stop clicking,

the wheels stop rolling

the computers desist from computing,

and a hush will fall over the city.

For an instant, in the stillness,

the chiming of the celestial spheres will be heard

as earth hangs poised

in the crystalline darkness, and then

gracefully

tilts.

Let there be a season

when holiness is heard, and

the splendor of living is revealed.

Stunned to stillness by beauty

we remember who we are and why we are here.

There are inexplicable mysteries.

We are not alone.

In the universe there moves a Wild One

whose gestures alter earth’s axis

toward love.

In the immense darkness

everything spins with joy.

The cosmos enfolds us.

We are caught in a web of stars,

cradled in a swaying embrace,

rocked by the holy night,

babes of the universe.

Let this be the time

we wake to life,

like spring wakes, in the moment

of winter solstice.

With care, and in faith~

Rev. Wendy & Rev. Lynn