The winter season brings many festivals of light, hope, and celebration — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Solstice, and more. Each offers stories of resilience, community, and the eternal spark of light that survives the coldest nights. In this multifaith service, we honor the beauty of our shared humanity and the diversity of tradition. Through song, reflection, and story, we celebrate the warmth we create when we gather, the gifts of culture and ritual, and the promise that light always returns. Join us for a morning of remembrance, joy, and winter wonder.

Today’s Reading: is by Howard Thurman, from Meditations of the Heart:

“There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar

And standing guard before that altar is the ‘angel with the flaming sword.’

Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority.

Nothing passes ‘the angel with the flaming sword’ to be placed upon your altar

Unless it be a part of ‘the fluid area of your consent.’

This is your crucial link with the Eternal.”