At the core of the Unitarian Universalist path is the celebration and presence of love.<\/p>\n
For them, love isn’t an abstraction or platitude, but their primary way of saying thank you for the wondrous gift of abundant life. They view their purpose on earth as not only to praise love, but\u00a0to embody and practice it.<\/p>\n
Being human, their aspirations often outreach their accomplishments. Much as they try, they don\u2019t always achieve their highest goals.\u00a0\u00a0They may falter in serving the larger world, and fall short of being virtuous. However, love always carries them forward as a caring, compassionate community of fallible yet sturdy pilgrims.<\/p>\n
Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship congregants are encouraged to love themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the natural world.\u00a0 They ask, in the words of UU songwriter Libby Roderick, \u201cHow could anyone ever tell you, you are less than beautiful?\u00a0 How could anyone ever tell you, you are less than whole?\u00a0 How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle?\u00a0 How deeply you\u2019re connected to my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n
UUers are urged,\u00a0when\u00a0frustrated,\u00a0to\u00a0remember love;\u00a0when saddened, to uplift each other with love; when exuberant, to share their love.<\/p>\n
They believe in receiving, as\u00a0well\u00a0as\u00a0giving,\u00a0love.\u00a0They agree with African American minister Howard\u00a0Thurman\u2019s declaration that a\u00a0robust religious life requires that “our hearts be swinging doors that open in and open out.”<\/p>\n
SUUF welcomes newcomers to its religious\u00a0community\u2014everyone, regardless of their tradition, gender, race, sexual orientation, or age.\u00a0\u00a0As Francis David, 16th<\/sup> C. founder of Unitarianism wrote, \u201cWe do not need to think alike to love alike.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0All are supported to walk\u00a0the\u00a0ways\u00a0of truthfulness, service, and\u00a0holiness.\u00a0 And, most of all, when among SUUF members, they\u2019ll experience love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the core of the Unitarian Universalist path is the celebration and presence of love. For them, love isn’t an abstraction or platitude, but their primary way of saying thank you for the wondrous gift of abundant life. They view their purpose on earth as not only to praise love, but\u00a0to embody and practice it. … Continue reading SUUF and Love [#66]<\/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-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","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=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}