When members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship gather, we ponder and discuss what makes life meaningful.\u00a0 For the rest of the week, we try to apply what we conclude to our everyday, mundane activities — such as making breakfast.<\/p>\n
To us, religion is about connectedness, about our relationships with ourselves, our local community, and the world at large. For example, a common Unitarian blessing before a meal is, \u201cAs we sit down to enjoy this food, we remember that it is brought to us through the blessings of nature and the labors of people throughout the world.\u00a0 We wish for all of them what we have today.\u201d<\/p>\n
This connects us momentarily to people globally, people we will never know, but upon whom we depend daily. This consideration of our food\u2019s origins provides a glimpse of human interdependence and the wonder of our existence.<\/p>\n
We try to relate this awareness to our everyday behavior, such as how we shop for food.\u00a0 For example, we check to be sure we purchase \u201cFair Trade\u201d breakfast coffee. That\u2019s just a mundane action, but coffee is the second biggest import to the U.S., after oil.\u00a0 Therefore, buying Fair Trade coffee contributes to having a positive world-wide impact.<\/p>\n
When we can, we look beyond the price, quality and packaging of a product, to consider the conditions of the workers involved and the product\u2019s environmental impact.<\/p>\n
We know that everything we do can potentially make a difference in this world, perhaps to correct an injustice, to comfort a friend, or to help a neighbor. Our most mundane acts, especially if we combine them with what others do, can have profound effects and give deeper meaning to how we live.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship gather, we ponder and discuss what makes life meaningful.\u00a0 For the rest of the week, we try to apply what we conclude to our everyday, mundane activities — such as making breakfast. To us, religion is about connectedness, about our relationships with ourselves, our local community, and … Continue reading Finding Meaning in the Mundane [#32]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}