Centering Thought “Real Change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” -Ruth Bader Ginsbirg    

Centering Thought “The present is not a time for desperation but for hopeful activity.” Thomas Berry, The Great Work Plus, the Unity Marin choir!

Centering Thought “The ship behaves according to the anchor, not the storm.” — Proverb

Centering Thought This is not the age of information. This is not the age of information. Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen. This is the time of loaves and fishes. People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand. David Whyte

Back-Pack Sunday AND welcoming more new members!

Centering Thought When people or nations try to hoard blessings, they reduce God’s abundant grace to a scarce commodity. This hoarding creates systemic poverty and cuts the hoarder off from the true source of life. Walter Brueggemann Reading: Genesis 28:10-19       Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Does God’s promise give exclusive ownership?  What does this…

Centering Thought “Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa

Centering Thought I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province. It always appeared a most unjust scheme to me—to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have. You know my mind upon this subject. Abigail Adams,…

Centering Thought “Beloved, we are not here because the world has been kind. We e here because God has been faithful. We are still standing not because the heat never came, but because our roots found living water. And as long as God is faithful, we shall not be moved.” Rev. Derek A. Terry, Acting…

Centering Thought “Today we honor all that have strengthened and nurtured us in love.” Rev. Kevin Omi is guest preacher for this Father’s Day.  Rev. Omi has been pastor of several UCC churches and offers spiritual direction in the Christian and Buddhist traditions through the Shalem Institute of Spiritual Formation.