{"id":9118,"date":"2025-12-27T00:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=9118"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:33:54","slug":"cultivating-compassion","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/cultivating-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Compassion is not simply a feeling; it is a practice, a discipline, and, at times, a radical act. In a world conditioned toward separation and speed, how do we slow down, soften our hearts, and choose to see one another fully? This Sunday we reflect on compassion as a spiritual muscle\u2014one that requires tending, intention, and courage. Together, we deepen our capacity to hold ourselves and each other with tenderness and truth.<\/h3>\n<h3>Our reading is &#8220;Wouldn\u2019t it be Great?\u201d by Rev. Tess Baumberger<\/h3>\n<h3>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we walked around surrounded by our souls,<\/h3>\n<h3>So that they were the first things people saw&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>Then people would judge us by who we really are&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>Imagine no more racism, ageism, sexism,<\/h3>\n<h3>Fatism, shortism, homophobia.<\/h3>\n<h3>Imagine falling in love with who a person is,<\/h3>\n<h3>Just by looking at them&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>Imagine people knowing\u00a0 YOU\u2026by your soul&#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compassion is not simply a feeling; it is a practice, a discipline, and, at times, a radical act. In a world conditioned toward separation and speed, how do we slow down, soften our hearts, and choose to see one another fully? This Sunday we reflect on compassion as a spiritual muscle\u2014one that requires tending, intention, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/cultivating-compassion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cultivating Compassion<\/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-9118","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\/9118","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=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9118\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}