The January 2020 theme for worship, RE, and small groups at WUUC is: What Does It Mean to be a People of INTEGRITY?  Our monthly themes and resource materials come from Soul Matters Sharing Circle, a network of Unitarian Universalist congregations.  A small sample of thoughts about integrity from Soul Matters:

  • Integrity stems from the Latin word “integer” which means whole and complete. In mathematics, an integer is a number that can’t be divided into fractions.  Integrity requires an inner sense of “wholeness” and consistency of character.  When you are in integrity, people should be able to visibly see it through your actions, words, decisions, methods and outcomes. When you are “whole” and consistent, there is only one you.  You don’t leave parts of yourself behind.  
  • Integrity isn’t simply something we build; it’s something already there. We UUs talk about mostly about inherent worth, but we also believe in inherent integrity. All the building blocks are there, waiting. Our parents who role modeled values we admired and can embrace. Our teachers and mentors who imparted wisdom about what really matters. Our spiritual community that pushed us to grow in the understanding of our faith. It’s all there, just forgotten.  They are calling to us from the edge of the woods, from the center of the deep pond of our souls. 
  • On some questions, Cowardice asks the question, “is it safe?”  Expediency asks the question, “is it polite?”  Vanity comes along and asks the question, “is it popular?”  But Conscience asks the question, “is it right?”  And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but we must do it because Conscience tells us it is right.   Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?  Charles Bukowski
  • I am different, not less.  Temple Grandin
  • Be yourself, everyone else is taken.  Oscar Wilde

For spiritual materials on our monthly theme, go to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RtLNkY8X_tOC7veFfDdk6zMoVdbYgmc9/view?usp=sharing

For a Sacred Words supplement on Soul go to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wupn9i7085IMvZSdtYszaaitej7fjKNR/view?usp=sharing