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.
So, I’m hoping that this Sunday’s program will change that. It is a workshop for us to explore ways we can practice this month’s theme of “Presence” to live out Love and related UU values. Then each of us will choose a tool and commit to using it for a month to make it a habit.
It is a pilot: if we like it, we’ll then decide if we want monthly workshops, either as a regular program or separate session. At those, we’ll be accountable to each other by sharing how practicing the tool we chose the past month impacted our ability to live out our UU values.
More on this week’s program and why we’re doing it are in the description below.
How might you practice Presence to live out Love?