Tag Archives: Family Systems

What You Can Control

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

The Work That Is Theirs to Do by Joanna Fontaine Crawford And said, “That’s enough of that.” And the day came when finally they put down their burdens The moment was full of sorrow but also relief Arms exhausted from … Continue reading →

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Making Space for Grace

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

  Audio podcast available here. Reading: X by Wendell Berry  Sermon: Making Space for Grace  How am I going to live through this? This is the question people ask when they are in the middle of a crisis, a trauma, … Continue reading →

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Connecting in Chaos – Saving Your One Life – Sermon May 31 2015

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading 1: From Michael Chrichton’s, The Lost World.    The Institute explored the behavior of a great variety of complex systems – corporations, neurons, enzyme cascades within a single cell, the group behavior of migratory birds….It did not take long before … Continue reading →

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What Do I Do Now?

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

(Sermon offered for Palm Sunday, 2014) What do I do now? Returning to bed, after a short trip to the bathroom, with her brown eyes sparkling in curiosity, my grandmother asks: What do I do now? My mother, or my … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Stories for All Unitarian Universalists (Stories 9-10, and a bonus)

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Continuing to reveal 10 stories I wish every Unitarian Universalist knew….here are stories 9-10, plus a bonus for fun.  Story 9:  Born into Covenant, by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker Rev. Rebecca Parker tells the story of when she first became … Continue reading →

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