Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth: Beacon of liberal religion in Downeast Maine

September 21, 2008 – The Coming Darkness

Openings At last it is October.  The colors are here, the fall is here, Samhain and Halloween are coming with Thanksgiving to follow, and with these come pumpkins. Pumpkins are squash, with tasty seeds and tasty flesh and an efficient enough shape to render carving worthwhile.  Efficiency, in this case, is measured in proportion of [...]

September 14, 2008 – Do You Want Fries With That?

sermon the coming darkness Sept 21, 2008 Ellsworth, ME Rev. Leela Sinha The coming of the dark is the coming of limits, the coming of boundaries, the coming of edges.  Our summers here are vast, open spaces of mile-long days; as the equinox comes we feel the shift, close windows, don sleeves and sweaters, light [...]

September 7, 2008 – Water for the Desert

sermon: Water for the Desert ingathering and water communion, September 7, 2008 homily 1: Every time my mother and I talk poetry it eventually boils down to meaning.  “What does it mean?” she’ll ask, “I don’t understand.”  Try as I might I cannot explain how the words wash over me, give me shapes and pictures [...]

On Healing And Forgiveness – July 13, 2008 – David Towle

101 Gifts — Flower Communion – May 18, 2008

101 Gifts (Flower Communion) May 18, 2008 Ellsworth, Maine Leela Sinha

There’s been a lot of depression going around lately. I, myself have been depressed for the last four days. This is a triumph—in years past it might have been four months before the fog was lifted–and yet today already I can feel that [...]

In Praise of Laze – May 4, 2008

In Praise of Laze May 4, 2008 (Beltane service) Ellsworth, Maine Leela Sinha

Sometimes everything happens at once. Sometimes births and deaths beginnings and endings get entangled on their paths and arrive at once anxious and busy and full– or perhaps it is we who are anxious and busy and full– and we watch [...]

Saying Yes – New Member Sunday – April 27, 2008

Saying Yes April 27, 2008 (New Member Sunday) Ellsworth, Maine Leela Sinha

There is a cliff in Matheran, a hill station outside of Mumbai, in India. At the edge you can look straight down, not even a railing between earth and sky. Some people stay back; some walk right up until the staining red [...]

Becoming A Beacon – April 13, 2008

Leela Sinha Becoming A Beacon April 13, 2008 Ellsworth, ME

in my mind’s eye the image is fuzzy, like failing TV screens and old newspaper photographs–the kind where every dot is black or white and your brain has to fill in the blanks.  There’s never any audio in my memory, never any ambient noise [...]

Follow The Light – April 6, 2008

A Few Worthy Things – March 30, 2008