Sermons by Rev. Roy Reynolds

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Companioning, The Call of the Heart

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It is rare to be seen and accepted for who we are, warts and all. Yet that is just what we long for in our closest relations. We each want a few intimate friends and groups with which we are not guarded, but can instead be vulnerable and relax into “just being.” Well, don’t we?  Today’s service will offer […]

Befriending Our Gifts

Today’s service connects something we know and love, our individual and personal experiences of being friends—be-friending—with the energy and findings of Saturday’s “Gifts, Strengths, and Yearnings” Opportunity. In a collaborative and dialogical dance, Reverends Jim and Roy will speak of ways for befriending, expressing and growing UUFH’s many gifts of fellowship, compassion, service, and outreach. This worship service […]

Spaces for Our Becoming

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We Americans like to fill space. We fill it with furniture, activities, and opinions; often without thinking of the effect. In community, when attitudes block mutual understanding, the relational space gets filled with miscommunication and hurt feelings. If we paid attention to the qualities of spaces in our relating, empathy could flow, and community life […]