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Our ten most recent recordings are below.
When Love Surprises Us
Date: May 25, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 7:09
Every now and then, we wake up to a moment that is “better than anything we could’ve imagined!” Every now and then, we are surprised to find that relationships last against all odds, or an illness resolves after a hopeless diagnosis, or someone is loved out of poverty or homelessness. Every now and then we get to know that miracles really do happen. How do we create the space for them to appear in our own lives? What is our responsibility in bringing these moments of goodness into our lives and the lives of those around us?
It Began as Imagination
Date: May 18, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 12:23
We formally celebrated 30 years of UUCB. With reflections from the beginning, and pictures throughout the years, we remembered together the power of an idea becoming a reality ... a reality that keeps dreaming, becoming, and dreaming again. Our church began in the imagination of a few and continues to thrive through the imaginations of many.
What is Sacred?
Date: May 11, 2025
Speaker: Marsha Donahue, Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 12:11
Marsha Donahue provides the first part of the reflection, followed by a video her son sent her for Mother's Day a few years ago. Rev. Amy follows.
What you produce isn’t always sacred. What is sacred is the time you spend working on the project and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Whether it’s mothering, painting, writing, creating music or movement how can we look differently at our efforts in the world and imagine a way to see the time, the struggle, the patience, the mistakes, as more valuable, more sacred, more transformative than any end result.
Imagination for Liberation
Date: May 4, 2025
Speaker: Diana Chapin
Length: 11:57
Diana Chapin and Kerri Vacher, members of the Board of Directors of The Healing Garden Maine, our May monthly plate split, led the service this Sunday. They spoke on the power of Imagination, our Soul Matters theme, as a path to individual and collective liberation. The Healing Garden, a local non-profit, leads monthly healing circles centering on the power of our hearts as a spiritual and energetic center with the power to create the world we want. What would it mean for us to move into the consciousness and imaginative power of the heart to create a more loving and wisdom-based culture and reality for all?
Nothing Exists Alone
Date: April 27, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 12:30
This begins with a reading by Cyrene Slegona. Rev. Amy follows at 2:08. In this special service inspired and organized by the Climate Action Team, we explored together the way that nature nurtures and guides us. In a service full of rich teaching from the earth herself and those who love her, we will remember our responsibilities, our interconnection, our sustaining and essential relationship to all that is our blue boat home.
Sparrows Fly and Stars Burn
Date: April 13, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 11:47
Where is joy? What happens when it’s not enough? Is joy like money - something we have to earn? Or is it like grace, there for us no matter what? Today, centering around a story written by one of our young people, Annette McCue Hafford, we’ll explore the relationship between following our dreams, curiosity, transformation, and hope. Ultimately leading us to a lesson in embracing the joy inherent in becoming exactly what we are needed and meant to be.
Threads of a Spiritual Journey
Date: April 6, 2025
Speaker: Margi Pulkingham
Length: 23:39
Margi Pulkingham is a UUCB Council member and on the Worship Arts Team. She provides a glimpse of the tapestry of joys, sorrows, and unknowns that have led her into the present while still learning how to be at peace with it all.
Meeting this Moment: Trusting our UU Roots
Date: March 30, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 14:42
How has Unitarian Universalism met difficult times in it’s history? What is our foundation of trust as a denomination? What role has trust played in the evolution of this faith and the practices of its people. What can we enliven now to meet the challenges we face?
Meeting this Moment: With Radical Okay-ness
Date: March 23, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 14:18
This morning we’ll reflect on what it would mean to trust ourselves so deeply that we would know ourselves to be okay no matter what may come. Based on an article printed in the blog Tiny Buddha by Leslie Ralph, we’ll ponder together what a practice of radical okay-ness might look like in this moment.
Meeting this Moment: When We Are Betrayed
Date: March 16, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Amy McCormick
Length: 13:48
Today, we’ll talk about what happens when trust is broken, when our faith is shattered, and the way forward is unclear. In the words of Martha Nussbaum: "Trust involves opening oneself to the possibility of betrayal, hence to a very deep form of harm. It means relaxing the self-protective strategies with which we usually go through life. It means, then, living with a certain degree of helplessness."