UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: May 7-11/13 Collection

From where do u derive inspiration?
By what r u motivated?
The Muse that is You deserves to be nurtured, embraced & celebrated.
Shine on!
(130511)

Those who lead, inspire.
Those who are leaders, direct.
Those who follow, learn.
Those who are followers, acquiesce.
Who do u aspire to be?
(130510)

Truth & Light fractured in a world haves & have nots.
On this 140 character graffiti wall begin to weave back that which longs to be woven
(130509)

In moments of celebrations, tears of loss arise.
In times of mourning, joy manifests.
In the eddies of living, life’s emotions companion
(130508)

Difficult days arise & can affect the next day & each that follows.
May all who confront a toilsome spiral embrace a path rooted in life
(130507)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Apr 30-May 4/13 Collection

In the awareness of awakening
may we choose to transform the sorrows & tragedies
ignored during the semblance of slumber
(130504)

When we begin with ‘why’ do we confine the possibility to hear something new?
What would happen if we began with ‘I wonder about’ …
(130503)

In the moment between experience & action choice is born.
In the space between routine & the unknown patterns can change.
What is next? (130502)

At the centre of potential is creativity embraced, play integrated, possibility realised.
May all who deign to design be spiritedly inspired
(130501)

Teachers arrive during ease or tightened tether.
Learning can be freely offered or effort of choice may be required.
Which is today?
(130430)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Apr 16-20/13 Collection

Certainty can lead to diminishing truth’s exploration.
May we be comfortable as questions arise which lead us to the mirror’s reflection
(130420)

May we endeavour to balance human justice with the Divine’s righteousness.
May we embrace compassion in harmony with our need for safety
(130419)

On days when longed for Spring seems distant, allusive & afar,
May sun cascading through window offer pause & reminder of summer’s promise
(130418)

‘Be the change’ isn’t a slogan.
It’s an invitation to step from apathy’s lulling lethargy
& engage creatively as an active agent in the Now
(130417)

All we can control is our own (re)actions.
In the face of frustration,
May we be patience; fear, be trust; hate, be love; violence, be peace
(130416)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Apr 9-13/13 Collection

Between words hanging in air,
truth hovers with potential.
Listen not to tenor or tone,
but respond to the intent of longed for welcome
(130413)

Wonder the impossible
Dream what may be
Imagine the unimaginable
Be not deterred by a contrary shout,
be emboldened by an affirming whisper
(130412)

May the swirling singing Spirit
dive deep down
within our doubting depths to inspire us
to deeply detach from etched egos & embrace eternity
(130411)

Can you trace your intention into action?
Can you track your hopes into fruition?
Is that to which you aspire made manifest in the Now?
(130410)

From the bee’s buzz to phyla that abounds Nature’s bounty,
Spring arrives illustrating the connexions that comprise the system we call Life
(130409)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Apr 2-6/13 Collection

May all who walk the dark night know solace & care without judgement.
May all who currently are a lit, share with compassion & humility
(130406)

The human genome’s journey unfolds in intimate companionship.
From there to here, we are but one weave in the totality of life’s tapestry
(130405)

Swords rattle, weapons deploy & feed fear. Isolated, we long to belong.
May wonder replace complacency & tenderness transform clenched fists
(130404)

In the city’s hum,
at an intersection’s pause,
in the idling moment,
all which can be imagined is probable and in this Now,
choose …
(130403)

Be not discouraged
when swords rattle & bellicose verbosity
attempt to drown out rationale discourse
intended to navigate our differences
(130402)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Mar 26-30/13 Collection

In the pause amid dark & light,
slumber & awakening,
death & life,
potential pervades.
In transition’s moment, choice is change’s constant
(130330)

Shrouds obscure Light and all seems lost in the shock that accompanies grief.
Hold fast Sisters & Brothers, for the Light promised beckons
(130329)

Maundy Thursday:
A pause, a meal, bread broken, & what will be spoken as cryptic invitation.
Before the darkness arrives, be in this now
(130328)

Thaw arrives, sun shines & that which has been hidden is once more revealed.
What treasures have been obscured which are now illumined?
(130327)

As our GLBTQ* friends, Sisters & Brothers await our US neighbours decisions about marriage equality,
May Spirit’s wisdom be heard!
(130326)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Mar 19-23/13 Collection

Waving palms extend cheering voices.
Entrances grand, yet humbly intended.
As the Teacher arrives, how do we respond as we long to belong?
(130323)

Flight & shadow:
There are moments when we soar, & others when the horizon is lost.
May we bring wisdom from aloft to places in the deep
(130322)

Theology becomes unmoored when Lament becomes Deficit & Abundance, Profit.
May we embrace the bounty in our midst & share with abandon
(130321)

The weight of costumes worn & blinders endured suppress the Essence you are.
Emerge from this lulled dullness & shine as the beacon you are
(130320)

We’re born into a mystery box logged into time & space, here & now.
What’s in u that possesses the riddle to the question we long to answer?
(130319)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Mar 12-16/13 Collection

Is integrity’s mark how we respond to adversity?
Is discipleship’s mark how we respond to other’s struggles?
If so, how shall we respond?
(130316)

Christian Discipleship does not deny adversity or reject doubt:
rather it is an invitation to respond differently with wonder & humility
(130315)

Does what you believe, preach, espouse & to which you subscribe dress freedom as a right to hate?
May Light be cast to extinguish Darkness
(130314)

Traditional media paints Christianity in a tapestry of judgement.
The UCC Call to inclusivity is @ our core: question & check us out!
(130313)

Between the pages we’re any story we wish to be.
Outside the binding, the world might change our tale.
Which character will you choose?
(130312)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Mar 5-9/13 Collection

Spoken words migrate from vibration to reality.
May we use language with intention & be aware that the way we communicate can heal or harm
(130309)

Single story narratives allow stereotypes to become truth.
You & I are more than 1 plot & when we turn that page we all step into liberation
(130308)

What we hold to is threaded into the weave of our being.
The tone we absorb tunes our harmony.
It is choice that leads to whether we shine
(130307)

Bounded blocks of tightly timed schedules
detract from the Flow of passion
in which all tick’d seconds melt away into awakened creativity
(130306)

How we care for our soul is mirrored in how we nurture earth’s fruits.
May we recognise that Creation’s bounty sustains the Temple we are
(130305)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

(Blog) UCiM-isms: Feb 26-Mar 3/13 Collection

Gathered people weave stories into community.
Community fosters potential for inclusion.
Inclusion nurtures belonging.
May it be so!
(130302)

You & I are divided by this & that.
We live isolated, living stories never shared.
May all who long for inclusion awaken to belonging
(130301)

Prayer is neither simply passive, nor active.
It is a dance to a harmony of potential that lays within and become manifest in outward choice
(130228)

When freedom creates avenues to incite hate,
have we forgotten our responsibility to care for each other?
May all who r vilified know love!
(130227)

A reflective set of binaries:
Gift or burden?
Enjoy or endure?
Want or should?
Obligation or passion?
Abundance or deficit?
(130226)

UCiM-isms blog

UCiM has been tweeting for a while now. During that time, part of our online ministry has been to tweet a prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. So we got to thinking, perhaps we could offer that as a blog resource for both our family of faith and those just checking us out! Pop in each week as we share the previous week’s UCiM-isms!

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