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Family Soul Matters

Soul Matters Themes for 2019-2020


​What Does It Mean to be a People of…
CORE THEME             SACRED WORD               PATH DESCRIPTION & GUIDING QUESTION
Sept 
(Expectation)    Faith                                         The path of hopeful expectation.       
 
                                                                                                                 In what do I trust? 

Oct (Belonging)          Mysticism                          The path of belonging to something larger than ourselves. 
                                                                                                                            
Does who I am end at the barrier of my skin?
Nov (Attention)          Prayer                                    The path of turning our attention to what matters most
                                                                                                                           
What is my life trying to say to me?
Dec (Awe)                      Reverence                           The path of traveling through the world with amazement
                                                                                                                           
What is sacred?
Jan (Integrity)              Soul                                      The path of living from the inside out
                                                                                                                           
What is my path?
Feb (Resilience)          Grace                                     The path of trusting in a Love that will not let you go.
                                                                                                                            
Do I have to make it through on my own? Is it all up to me?
March (Wisdom)       Awakening                   The path of untangling yourself from what you’ve been taught
                                                                                                                            
Is this all there is?
April (Liberation)      Surrender                       The path of saving yourself by giving yourself away.
                                                                                                                           
How do I escape my ego and small self?
May (Thresholds)     Blessing                              The path of making visible and calling forth the gifts that get us
                                                                                                       through.
                                                                                                                           
Where do I find the courage to step into the new?

June (Play)                    Myth                                        The path of shaping our reality with the stories we tell.
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Can our stories be re-written? Are we puppets or playwrights?

March

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Family and Parent Resources
Story to Read Together

The Wisdom of your Body: I am Jazz (for Transgender Day of Visibility Mar 31)
by Jessica Herthel  (Author), Jazz Jennings (Author), Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)
Family Discovery
The Wisdom of Simplicity: Make a Kite
Family Movie Night Ideas
Song of the Sea
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/song-of-the-sea
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An Article to Read: Learning to Raise Lifelong UU’s

​“But I have a vision that soon, when a UU group is asked to show how many were raised UU, more than half will lift up their hands in joy—no longer strangers but companions on a shared journey of building a better world.”
~
Barbara Wells Ten Hove
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