{"id":7219,"date":"2023-08-04T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:02:15","slug":"holiness-at-suuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/holiness-at-suuf\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiness at SUUF [#65]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unitarian Universalists seek to be whole human beings, which includes being sensitive to the sacred. They do this simply–believing that holiness can be present in ordinary, everyday life situations.<\/span><\/p>\n

They also recognize that\u00a0<\/span>people\u00a0<\/span>hunger for a special time and <\/span>place\u00a0<\/span>where\u00a0<\/span>minds are stimulated, hearts are opened, bodies are embraced, and spirits are uplifted\u2014at their weekly service and on other special occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oliver Wendell Holmes, when asked why he attended Unitarian worship services, replied\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>he\u00a0<\/span>had within him a\u00a0<\/span>plant\u00a0<\/span>called <\/span>reverence\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>needed\u00a0<\/span>watering\u00a0<\/span>each\u00a0<\/span>week.<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>world where we are avalanched daily with trivia and traumas, many of us yearn for a sacred circle in which we can enjoy a sanctuary of sabbath peace\u2014a time for resting and renewing our spirits and relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship services, congregants are invited to be still and to be inspired.\u00a0 They may be offered\u00a0ideas to\u00a0<\/span>enlarge\u00a0their\u00a0<\/span>existence, or to share recent events that stirred their soul with joy or sorrow.\u00a0They also <\/span>gather\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>enjoy music and to sing together as an uplifting form of spiritual expression. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They enter their sanctuary with reverence and joy, comforting their heart when it is heavy-laden and awakening their spirit when it slips into lethargy. Their holy celebration\u00a0sometimes\u00a0<\/span>inspires them\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>tears, to laughter, to\u00a0<\/span>silence,\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>action.<\/span><\/p>\n

SUUF is a community of persons\u00a0<\/span>committed\u00a0<\/span>to both justice and hope,\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>meditation\u00a0<\/span>and to marching, to prayer and to protest, to being and to doing what each episode in their life calls for.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unitarian Universalists seek to be whole human beings, which includes being sensitive to the sacred. They do this simply–believing that holiness can be present in ordinary, everyday life situations. They also recognize that\u00a0people\u00a0hunger for a special time and place\u00a0where\u00a0minds are stimulated, hearts are opened, bodies are embraced, and spirits are uplifted\u2014at their weekly service and … Continue reading Holiness at SUUF [#65]<\/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-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","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=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}