Worship on Sunday
Zoom Webinar
The link is posted on the church calendar (uuclb.org)
It\u2019s also listed on our church website \u2013 with last week\u2019s 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Got some good tools for keeping our public meetings safe.
I can share that tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Connections survey \u2013 Will need to happen next week
Getting the tool set up online
Recruiting folks to make the calls<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please support the church financially, if you can.
We now have \u201ctext to give\u201d on our Tithe.ly account
(833) 931-1845
Or, go to UUCLB.org and click on the \u201cgive\u201d menu item<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Probably in this for the long haul<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How long? \u2013 who knows<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So to get through this
We can\u2019t just steel ourselves for a crisis
We need to adapt to a new way of being in the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it\u2019s 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\u2019s one kind of resiliency<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not quite as permanent as that, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long enough that we need to shift our consciousness to a new way of living
From resistance to acceptance
From \u201cI don\u2019t need to change
And \u201cI don\u2019t need to learn
And I\u2019ll just ignore it until it passes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To
How can I be successful, happy, comfortable, in this new reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t put your life on hold.
Accept that this is your life, for now.
And lean into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I always say that Unitarian Universalism is a reality-based religion.
The reality is that right now our lives are diminished
Because we\u2019ve had to give up so much so quickly
And that\u2019s painful<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the reality is also that (my elevator speech)
\u201cHumans 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can remake our lives
Not in the old way but in new ways<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are just now discovering what that will look like
More technology, certainly
More online, certainly
And we will invent new solutions that don\u2019t even exist yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to encourage you to accept the challenge of this time
Give it a try
Have patience when it doesn\u2019t 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\u2019t have to learn every new thing at once.
This is a marathon not a sprint
Or at least a 10K<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But however long the race
The way to get to the end
Is not to sit down and stop
But keep moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"