Passage from Soul Matters September 2022 Theme “Welcome to Belonging You hardly knew how hungry you were to be gathered in, to receive the welcome that invited you to enter entirely… You began to breathe again… You learned to sing. But the deal with this blessing is that it will not leave you alone, will […]

Passage from Soul Matters October 2022 Theme Welcome to The Path of Courage “Courage doesn’t always roar.” - Mary Anne Radmacher Courageous people change the world. So many examples of that this month. October’s celebration of LGBTQ+ history month reminds us of the many who bravely moved (and continue to move) our world toward greater […]

Passage from Soul Matters November 2022 Theme Welcome to The Path of Change I wonder, particularly in a time where everything seems urgent, what the role of pause and breath is, in this season, to help us gear up for whatever this transformational moment we find ourselves in is. Rev. Jen Bailey space to imagine […]

Passage from Soul Matters December 2022 Theme: The path of Wonder Welcome to the Path of Wonder This seems to me the main problem… How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?… How can this world give us at once the fascination of a strange […]

Passage from Soul Matters January 2023 Theme: Finding Our Center Welcome to the Path of Finding Our Center When we talk of finding our center, it’s natural for calm and rest to be the first things that come to mind. Who would expect anything different? After all, the need for calm is everywhere we look. […]

Passage from Soul Matters February 2023 Theme: Love Welcome to the Path of Love The path of love. It began from the beginning, for most of us. Came in the form of family. A bloodline that brought us into being, and at its best, allowed us to bloom. Then sent us on our way with […]

Passage from Soul Matters March 2023 Theme: Vulnerability Welcome to The Path of Vulnerability It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is […]

Passage from Soul Matters April 2023 Theme: Resistance Welcome to the Path of Resistance ...it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more. --Marge Piercy, from The Low Road Out of all our themes this year, resistance is among the most complex. But it also may […]

Passage from Soul Matters May 2023 Theme: Creativity Welcome to the Path of Creativity Creativity is our ability to dream things up and make them happen. — Peggy Taylor Dreaming things up. We’re all familiar with that part of the quote. Who doesn’t love conjuring up new ideas and images? Who isn’t impressed when someone […]

Passage from Soul Matters June 2023 Theme: Delight Welcome to the Path of Delight Because the road turns long and lonely sometimes, I built this box of delight. I picked up the lid and into it I put… My children laughing, together. The look of giddy disbelief on my mother’s face when that black-capped chickadee […]