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At last Sunday’s program we were in three small groups talking about how the spiritual practice of Presence, this month’s theme, can help us live our new UU values. We chose between three of the values: Love, Transformation, and Generosity. When our group discussed what we’re already doing to practice Presence to live Transformation, I said that as a congregation we’re constantly Transforming what and how we do things to fit our members’ Transforming needs and wants. Because we are small and don’t have one leader, we’re able to be more Present to those and Transform relatively quickly.

Our monthly themes this program year all start with “Living Love through the Practice of (Invitation, Deep Listening, Repair, Presence, etc.).” The intent is that by practicing the theme we will live out our core UU value of Love. When I first saw that, I thought, “That’s great! I want to do that!” But so far, I have not been practicing the themes, probably because I don’t like to
practice things, possibly because I didn’t commit to using a specific tool to, and perhaps because I wasn’t accountable to anyone.