On the one year anniversary of the failed attempted coup on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, the UUA issues a statement outlining the continued and growing threats to our democracy and the need for individuals to take action.

What word might you use as your centering lodestar for 2022?

May we continue to find ways to connect while keeping safe this holiday season.

For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.

Each Advent, my empathy for Mary’s situation returns.

Acknowledging that our dream was not happening didn't end the grief, but it did offer closure.

May we release ourselves from the need to fit every truth neatly into our own language.

Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.

We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.

If this year is a "lost" year, then I am bound to live a lost life.

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The dead aren’t really dead; their stories are perpetually being told by the world around us.

Here is guidance from the UUA about around gathering in person as new variant emerge.

I am learning to give up needing to know the answers, and instead live with the questions.

I need to celebrate our human family, whose power and potential shimmer against the backdrop of deep time, because we aren’t at our best right now.

I was leaving my mom in another world, located far away from mine.

In order to be welcoming, the systems of power and privilege in our spaces need to be actively dismantled.

Surviving a Plague … Again The year is 2021, I am 47, and I’m a 15-year survivor of the first plague of Generation X. Every part of that sentence makes me feel some kind of way. First of all … FORTY-SEVEN! I’m not one of those forever-young queens, so I’m very excited to be alive and grown...

I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.