We gather this Sunday to explore what it truly means to build a new way—in our lives, our congregation, and our world. Inspired by the Unitarian Universalist commitment to collective liberation, we ask: What does it take to move from aspiration to embodiment? From singing the words to living the work? Together we will seek courage, clarity, and creativity as we imagine and co-create a future grounded in justice, belonging, and shared power. Let us build the world we dream about, one choice, one practice, one day at a time.

Our reading is by Howard Thurman, from Meditations of the Heart:

“At times when the strain is heaviest upon us,
And our tired nerves cry out in many-tongued pain
Because the flow of love is choked far below the deep recesses of the heart,
We seek with cravings firm and hard
The strength to break the dam
That we may live again in love’s warm stream.
Until, at least, we are restored and made anew!”