{"id":7227,"date":"2023-09-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:07:11","slug":"suuf-as-a-potluck-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/suuf-as-a-potluck-community\/","title":{"rendered":"SUUF as a Potluck Community [#69]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pot-luck meal can surpass one with a predetermined menu because a group of creative people often bring a delicious variety of contributions.<\/p>\n<p>What do people bring to the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship&#8217;s\u00a0pot-luck?<\/p>\n<p>Some bring their attitude of gratitude&#8211;they want to express their thankfulness for the good that has come into their life.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring their spirit of love&#8211;to contribute their human warmth and fellowship to all they feel in the hands and faces around them.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring their inner joy&#8211;to exchange\u00a0with others\u00a0confirmation of their aliveness and hope.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring their caring&#8211;knowing how much we need one another, how vulnerable we are if we face life solely by ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring their spirituality&#8211;wanting to express and grow their connection to all that is beyond themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring curiosity&#8211;knowing that we learn best by engaging with people whose experiences and beliefs differ from our own.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring awe&#8211;wanting experiences that deepen their connection to what they hold holy.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring\u00a0responsibility&#8211;wanting to take seriously their commitment to each other, their community, the human race, and our shared earth.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring news to share&#8211;of their good times, knowing that others will share their happiness, and news of bad times, knowing that others will support them.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring acceptance&#8211;wanting to welcome everyone coming through the door, without expecting them to change who they are to fit a particular mold.<\/p>\n<p>Some bring openness\u2014not knowing quite what will happen, yet eager to receive a new idea, a new experience, or new sustenance for their mind and heart.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever they bring, they know that SUUF is a welcoming community that always has room for one more at\u00a0their spiritual table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pot-luck meal can surpass one with a predetermined menu because a group of creative people often bring a delicious variety of contributions. What do people bring to the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship&#8217;s\u00a0pot-luck? Some bring their attitude of gratitude&#8211;they want to express their thankfulness for the good that has come into their life. Some bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/suuf-as-a-potluck-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUUF as a Potluck Community [#69]<\/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-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}