{"id":9030,"date":"2025-09-12T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=9030"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:39:45","slug":"love-at-the-center-2","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/love-at-the-center-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love At The Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Unitarian Universalist faith continues to grow, guided by evolving principles that place Love at the center. In this service, we explore what it means to let Love be the grounding force of our personal lives and our collective community. Love calls us to compassion, justice, and interdependence\u2014shaping not only what we believe, but how we act in the world. Together, we will reflect on how these renewed principles challenge us, comfort us, and inspire us to build a more inclusive and life-giving faith rooted in the transformative power of Love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading: Words by Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love,<\/p>\n<p>To be loved, and to belong.<\/p>\n<p>When those needs are not met, we don\u2019t function as we were meant to.<\/p>\n<p>We break. We fall apart. We numb.<\/p>\n<p>We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Unitarian Universalist faith continues to grow, guided by evolving principles that place Love at the center. In this service, we explore what it means to let Love be the grounding force of our personal lives and our collective community. Love calls us to compassion, justice, and interdependence\u2014shaping not only what we believe, but how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/love-at-the-center-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love At The Center<\/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-9030","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\/9030","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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9030\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}