Life is hard. Love one another. Sometimes this is not an easy thing to do. As physical distancing continues for so many of us, we are growing weary and we are weary of feeling weary! With election rhetoric ramping up, we need strength for the journey. The harder things get, the more we need our spiritual practices, friends, and our faith community. All month we’ll explore various tools for strength and resilience in these challenging times.

This past Sunday, we heard from leaders in the #UUtheVote campaign share ways to lean into discomfort, to stretch, to do everything in our abilities to UU the Vote, i.e. that we encourage folks to vote from a place of love rather than fear; to commit to strengthening our democracy by inviting more people to participate through postcards, phonebanks, and text banks. This has become a spiritual practice. A spiritual practice is something we do with intention, attention, and repetition; the intention to be supportive/soothing/connected as spiritual by however you resonate with that word, paying attention to how doing the practice moves in you, heals you, centers you, and repetition of the action so that each time it grounds you a bit more. We hope that you will read Kat’s submission and get involved and stay involved, because no matter what happens with the election results, there is going to be more for us to do.