This lay-led service, organized by Jessica Basile, celebrates our Seventh Principle – of ourselves as beings, connected with all the other beings of our amazing planet. It is a celebration of what connects us all to each other. The Rev. Forrest Gilmore writes on the UUA website:
“Our Seventh Principle, respect for the interdependent web of all existence, is a glorious statement. Yet we make a profound mistake when we limit it to merely an environmental idea. It is so much more. It is our response to the great dangers of both individualism and oppression. It is our solution to the seeming conflict between the individual and the group. Our seventh Principle may be our…way of coming to fully embrace something greater than ourselves. The interdependent web – expressed as the spirit of life, the ground of all being, the oneness of all existence, the community-forming power, the process of life, the creative force, even God – can help us develop that social understanding of ourselves that we and our culture so desperately need. It is a source of meaning to which we can dedicate our lives.”
Jessica writes: “After the inauguration, and the various Executive Orders, after the inspiring crowds at the Women’s March, the immigration marches, the science march, the People’s Climate March, after the hard work we’re doing around racial justice here at Theodore Parker Church, the small quiet voice inside me suddenly got pretty loud, asking for ways to celebrate our values, to honor why we do the activist work that we do. I remembered a service the Green Sanctuary Task Force coordinated back in 2008 and thought it would be great to bring it to life once again.”
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