{"id":8533,"date":"2025-02-28T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=8533"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:35:58","slug":"the-power-of-story-2","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/the-power-of-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Story (with audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stories shape our understanding of the world, our place within it, and the values we hold dear. Whether personal narratives, cultural myths, or sacred texts, stories guide us toward meaning and transformation. This service delves into the power of storytelling as a spiritual practice, inviting us to consider the stories we tell about ourselves and how they shape our shared future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading:<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Covenant&#8221; by Rev. Rebecca Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us covenant with one another\u00a0to keep faith with the source of life<\/p>\n<p>knowing that we are not our own,\u00a0earth made us.<\/p>\n<p>Let us covenant with one another\u00a0to keep faith with the community of resistance<\/p>\n<p>never to forget that life can be saved\u00a0from that which threatens it<\/p>\n<p>by even small bands of people\u00a0choosing to put into practice\u00a0an alternative way of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click the PLAY button below to listen to the recorded sermon from this service.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8533-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-23-25-sermon-The-Power-of-Story-edited-4.4.25-Susannah-and-Gary.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-23-25-sermon-The-Power-of-Story-edited-4.4.25-Susannah-and-Gary.mp3\">https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-23-25-sermon-The-Power-of-Story-edited-4.4.25-Susannah-and-Gary.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories shape our understanding of the world, our place within it, and the values we hold dear. Whether personal narratives, cultural myths, or sacred texts, stories guide us toward meaning and transformation. This service delves into the power of storytelling as a spiritual practice, inviting us to consider the stories we tell about ourselves and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/the-power-of-story-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Power of Story (with audio)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[161],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-8533","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry","uu_service_speaker-rev-anthony-mtuaswa-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8533\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}