Worship on Sunday
Zoom Webinar
The link is posted on the church calendar (uuclb.org)
It’s also listed on our church website – with last week’s code
We will get that fixed.
The link is posted on facebook
And the topic and link is posted on my website (rhmcd.com)
We will increase the capacity to 500
We will also stream to facebook live, and are practicing that today at 1:30.
And Treacy Gephart-Seeley has been researching options for closed captioning

Church meetings
Sent out an email yesterday to all the meeting contact listed in Join In!
Instructions about how to set up your online meeting with the church account
Feel free to use a personal account as well, if you have one.
Publicize your meeting on the church calendar
Open meetings include a link
Closed meeting have no link
Training tomorrow at 1:30 for folks who want me to walk them through the process of scheduling a meeting.
The link for that meeting will be on the church calendar.

Got some good tools for keeping our public meetings safe.
I can share that tomorrow as well.

Connections survey – Will need to happen next week
Getting the tool set up online
Recruiting folks to make the calls

Please support the church financially, if you can.
We now have “text to give” on our Tithe.ly account
(833) 931-1845
Or, go to UUCLB.org and click on the “give” menu item

•  Message

Probably in this for the long haul

How long? – who knows

I read an article today in the Atlantic that suggested
Some normalcy possible by this summer
But really getting over this health crisis
Will require a high percentage of the population becoming immune
Either through surviving an infection
Or a vaccine
Either of which will take a year or possibly two.

So to get through this
We can’t just steel ourselves for a crisis
We need to adapt to a new way of being in the world

So it’s not like going to the dentist to get your teeth cleaned
Where you know you will suffer for 30 minutes and then go back to your life
That’s one kind of resiliency

This is about making a life change
Like, a health condition that requires a permanent change in diet
Or moving to a new city
Or happily, getting married
Or having a new baby

Not quite as permanent as that, but you get the picture.

Long enough that we need to shift our consciousness to a new way of living
From resistance to acceptance
From “I don’t need to change
And “I don’t need to learn
And I’ll just ignore it until it passes

To
How can I be successful, happy, comfortable, in this new reality?

Don’t put your life on hold.
Accept that this is your life, for now.
And lean into it.

I always say that Unitarian Universalism is a reality-based religion.
The reality is that right now our lives are diminished
Because we’ve had to give up so much so quickly
And that’s painful

But the reality is also that (my elevator speech)
“Humans beings are good enough, smart enough, and strong enough to create lives of health and joy for ourselves and each other, and to care for the world we share.”

We can remake our lives
Not in the old way but in new ways

We are just now discovering what that will look like
More technology, certainly
More online, certainly
And we will invent new solutions that don’t even exist yet.

I want to encourage you to accept the challenge of this time
Give it a try
Have patience when it doesn’t work perfectly the first time
Look for the opportunities rather than focusing on the challenges
If you feel yourself resisting, take a breath, and let it go.
Pace yourself, you don’t have to learn every new thing at once.
This is a marathon not a sprint
Or at least a 10K

But however long the race
The way to get to the end
Is not to sit down and stop
But keep moving.