Summer Theme: Who Are We and How Are We Growing?

I picked cherries for the first time in my life this week. I was lucky enough to be with Joey, now four and a half years old, who took turns with me exclaiming about the number of cherries hanging from the trees. We were so overwhelmed, we took a few minutes to lie down in the shade, laying still as we stared straight up at the shining red fruits hanging like candy between the dark, green leaves, attached by graceful stems to slender, flexible branches. “How can there be so many cherries?” we wondered aloud, over and over and over again. “How can there be SO MANY cherries? There are even cherries on the ground!  Perfectly ripe and perfectly red!” 

Why am I telling you this story this summer? Because I don’t want anyone participating in the life of our Gorge Fellowship to miss the opportunity to take in the presence and reality of abundance around us and in our history.  

Whether you identify as a humanist, a universalist, a transcendentalist, an atheist, an agnostic, a Unitarian, a UU, a none, or none of the above, you belong at this Fellowship. Our religious ancestors welcomed doubt and doubted theological certainties. They sacrificed their lives for the right to reason about the nature of reality. And generation to generation, their roots deepened, so we could rise to meet the challenges of our day.

There is an abundance of experience and wisdom for us to draw upon, together. If this rich history speaks to you, please send me an email, letting me know you’d like to sign up for a Foundations class this fall. 

May our roots sink down into the earth, as we rise up and offer ourselves to each other and to communities in need of nourishment, hope and healing. 

With love beyond belief, Barbara