Unitarian Universalists are not conventionally religious.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe any single scripture comes from God.\u00a0 They find the Divine everywhere in everyday life.<\/p>\n
One UU leader, Don Southworth, sees God in the people he meets.\u00a0 He thinks of them as \u201cGod with skin on.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also ends all of his emails with the salutation, \u201cBlessings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some people think that word is an expression of his religion (not true); others think it\u2019s a little weird (probably true), and others think he\u2019s wishing them well (absolutely true).<\/p>\n
He views his blessing as an affirmation of the\u00a0other person\u2019s \u201cbelovedness,\u201d as his thankfulness for that person\u2019s presence, as saying out loud the joy and love he feels for the other.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like saying the Sanskrit word, \u201cNamaste,\u201d when greeting or departing from someone, with \u201ca bow to the divine in you.\u201d<\/p>\n
A blessing also might be felt (or said) to the rising sun, when starting a new day, when beginning a meal, or any time we want to express our gratitude for the gift of life and for the others we share it with.<\/p>\n
He agrees with the mystic, Meister Eckhart, who wrote, \u201cIf the only prayer we say is thank you, it would suffice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He reminds us that we are blessed, we are blessings and we bless others.\u00a0 To him, a blessing is a moment of \u201cgrateful acknowledgement that in the midst of a broken world unspeakable beauty, grace and mystery abide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unitarian Universalists are not conventionally religious.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe any single scripture comes from God.\u00a0 They find the Divine everywhere in everyday life. One UU leader, Don Southworth, sees God in the people he meets.\u00a0 He thinks of them as \u201cGod with skin on.\u201d He also ends all of his emails with the salutation, \u201cBlessings.\u201d … Continue reading Blessings [#50]<\/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-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}