Posts Tagged ‘quest-magazine-2020-07|spiritual practice’

Letting go can be a spiritual practice. I should know, I’ve been doing it for a while as I prepare to leave CLF.

One of the important things that the CLF does is serve as a teaching congregation, providing an internship or other learning site for people in ministerial formation.

You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org

Every morning,
even being very old,
(or perhaps because of it),
I like to make my bed.
In fact, the starting of each day unhelplessly
is the biggest thing I ever do.

In college, I majored in Women’s Studies. My sense that I lived in a world that objectified and devalued women was strong.

I grew up in a music school—that is to say, our home was filled most afternoons and evenings with music teachers and students playing scales and études.

A spiritual practice is something which you repeat regularly that grounds you in depth and connection.

It was sometime in the 1980s. We were at a UU Religious Educators retreat northeast of Minneapolis and I remember my roommate saying from the other twin bed in our room, “Ginger, I think I should let you know I am a lesbian.”

During the ten years of Meg Riley’s leadership as senior minister for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, we have changed and grown in a wide variety of ways.