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WEST PARIS — Feeling thankful? No matter how large or small the reason, thanks brings with it actual positive physiological changes in the body. Thankfulness puts a smile on your face. It really works. In the presence of our church community, we experience connection between thankfulness and joy – here’s to your health, and a good way to start the week! Join us on Sundays at 9 a.m. for worship and refreshments afterward. All are welcome! For the present time, we are wearing masks, but we are still singing.  

November 7, The Zen of Baseball Redux, led by The Reverend Fayre Stephenson. During this service, we will revisit the Zen of Baseball, a subject we have explored before. This time we’ll explore the common ground between the game of baseball and religious study: sacred places and times, faith and doubt, blessings, and curses.

November 14, Spiritual Transformation, led by The Reverend Fred Jordan. Spirituality is traditionally thought of as the way a solitary individual seeks and expresses meaning and purpose: his or her connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to a significant sacred essence. There sometimes is a failure to develop seeing ourselves as part of all life –part of “We” instead of just “I”. Some feel that failure to develop our universal potential in this way is one of the most dangerous tendencies in the world as it is so often today: that collective nightmare of separation, domination, and destruction that people too often may find themselves in. We will take a look at the possibility of contagious transformation as the start, at least, of a potential remedy for the tragic mess that, if honest, we realize we too often see around us.

November 21, Thanksgiving Considerations, led by The Reverend Fayre Stephenson. The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote is a Thanksgiving story that is both heart-warming and challenging. On this Sunday before Thanksgiving, using The Thanksgiving Visitor as our jumping-off point, we will consider our own sources of gratitude.                                                  

November 28, Why Are You Here?, led by Rodney Abbott, longtime educator and frequent guest speaker at the First Universalist Church of West Paris. Essentially, we will explore what makes life meaningful.

For more information about the church and services, please contact Marta Clements, 674-2143, mclements96894@roadrunner.com, or Bob Clifford at 674-3442, [email protected]. To learn more about the Unitarian-Universalist Association, visit http://www.uua.org/.

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