Reflecting together

a reflection manual

Questions to PONDER with your friends/family:

1. A Year in Review: Start with last September (pausing in-between each month to reflect ) say the names of each month going from then leading up to now quietly to yourself or in a group. See what comes to mind. After this exercise share what came up in your "review".

2. What EXPERIENCES did UU remember over the last year? 

What did they feel like, taste like, smell like?....

3. Where are the LOCATIONS of your Reflections?
In your neighborhood? far away, in your dreams?

Leap of Faith!

 

Questions to PONDER with your friends/family:

1. What does it mean to UU to take a "LEAP of Faith" for your beloved community?

2. To Covenant (promise):

How will UU use your hands to SERVE within your beloved community and beyond?

3. Why is it important to not only give SERVICE with your hands but to GIVE the wealth in your pockets (of any size) within your beloved community of faith?

Mama's Day

https://mamasday.org/about

Questions to Ponder with your friends/family:

1. Who are the MAMA figures in your life?

2. What does your FAMILY look like? Some families have no Mama's, some have 1 and some have more than 1!

3. Why is it IMPORTANT to have cards that reflect the way families look? Do UU find it hard to find cards that reflect your family? Here are a couple Strong Family card examples for Mamasday:

 

May Day

Questions to Ponder with your friends/family:

1. May Day "International Workers' Day" ask your family/ friends how they feel about their balance of work/rest. 

Which UU principle asks us to works towards justice for ALL?

2. Where are UU WORKing for JUSTICE in your local community? How does that look?

3. This day of workers and a holiday of rebirth, how are UU celebrating "May Day"? 

Liberation

Questions to Ponder with your friends/family:

1.lib·er·a·tion ˌlibəˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun - the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.

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2. As Passover begins, what do UU wish to be set FREE from?
   What will UU do to work so that others are FREE?
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2. Earth Day: Why is it important to care for the EARTH, the home to share with all? (the 7th uu principle)

3. How has the RAINBOW been a symbol and continues to be a symbol of liberation in  LGBTQ communities?

Site Specific

Rev. William Ellery Channing

Questions to PONDER with friends/family:

1. What's Rev. Channing have to do with being UU anyway? And, why would a statue of him be important on the Boston Garden facing Arlington Street Church, UU, Boston, MA ?

2. I bet UU know the song "Spirit of Life", sing it! And here is a little bit more about this hymn and the women who wrote it:  http://www.uuworld.org/articles/carolyn-mcdades-spirit-life
What does this song mean to UU?

3. What items were created for a particular place that UU know of? a painting/mural, statue, etc? There is one in Boston that is having its 75th B-day!

Coming Together - Merging

Questions to PONDER with your friends/family:

1. What does Unitarian mean ? What is Universalist mean?
     Did UU know that U + U = UU  Unitarian Universalist?
     What's that?! 

2. When was the UUA founded and why/How?

3.  print and color or draw one as UU wish: