{"id":9120,"date":"2025-12-27T00:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=9120"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:16:29","slug":"choosing-hope","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/choosing-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hope is not wishful thinking\u2014it is a spiritual discipline, a practice of imagination, and an act of defiance against despair. In challenging times, choosing hope can feel risky, even foolish. Yet our Unitarian Universalist tradition calls us to be people of persistent possibility, to see beyond what is and lean toward what could be. Today we explore hope not as na\u00efve optimism but as grounded courage: the choice to believe in the human spirit, in community, and in the possibility of transformation. Join us as we reclaim hope as a living commitment and a path forward.<\/h3>\n<h3>Our reading is \u201dWe are One\u201d by Hope Johnson<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;We are one, a diverse group of proudly kindred spirits, here not by coincidence but because we choose to journey together. We are active and proactive. We care deeply. We live our love as best we can. We are One.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>Please note that the January &#8220;Share The Plate&#8221; from today&#8217;s collection will be donated to the Hope House.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is not wishful thinking\u2014it is a spiritual discipline, a practice of imagination, and an act of defiance against despair. In challenging times, choosing hope can feel risky, even foolish. Yet our Unitarian Universalist tradition calls us to be people of persistent possibility, to see beyond what is and lean toward what could be. Today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/choosing-hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choosing Hope<\/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-9120","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\/9120","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=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9120\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}