{"id":8536,"date":"2025-02-28T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=8536"},"modified":"2025-03-12T01:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:18:57","slug":"our-greatest-delusion","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/our-greatest-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Greatest Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein once said, \u201cThe greatest delusion is the illusion of separateness.\u201d This service explores the profound spiritual and ethical implications of this idea. What does it mean to embrace interconnectedness in a world that often prioritizes individualism? How can we move beyond separation toward a deeper sense of belonging, compassion, and justice.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome Dan Vega as our guest musician today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading: \u201c<\/strong><strong>This promise that we make\u201d by Rev. Gretchen Haley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It starts here<\/p>\n<p>In this moment<\/p>\n<p>In this breath<\/p>\n<p>You feel rising<\/p>\n<p>In your chest<\/p>\n<p>This beat building between us<\/p>\n<p>The healing, the hunger, the hope<\/p>\n<p>The courage, the calling, the commitment<\/p>\n<p>The drawing out<\/p>\n<p>of a new day<\/p>\n<p>It begins now<\/p>\n<p>In the imagination<\/p>\n<p>In this story we weave<\/p>\n<p>together<\/p>\n<p>this song we sing<\/p>\n<p>this prayer<\/p>\n<p>we bring into being<\/p>\n<p>from our hearts<\/p>\n<p>to our lips<\/p>\n<p>from our hands<\/p>\n<p>this promise<\/p>\n<p>that we make &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>to keep learning<\/p>\n<p>to keep trying<\/p>\n<p>to keep our sense<\/p>\n<p>of humor<\/p>\n<p>to keep close<\/p>\n<p>this knowing<\/p>\n<p>that we are all<\/p>\n<p>in this<\/p>\n<p>together<\/p>\n<p>Come, let us begin,<\/p>\n<p>Come, let us worship, together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein once said, \u201cThe greatest delusion is the illusion of separateness.\u201d This service explores the profound spiritual and ethical implications of this idea. What does it mean to embrace interconnectedness in a world that often prioritizes individualism? How can we move beyond separation toward a deeper sense of belonging, compassion, and justice. We welcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/our-greatest-delusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Greatest Delusion<\/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-8536","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\/8536","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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/8536\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}