Pagosa Unitarian Universalist (UU) Fellowship, is about staying curious, embracing uncertainty, and being open to mystery this month with the theme of living the questions. We build on last month’s theme of interdependence, acknowledging it is our responsibility to be open to wondering and listening before jumping to our own independent certainty. Our religious tradition is a living tradition because we are always learning new truths.
Mary Ocken, a lay leader from the UU Fellowship of Durango, will be the guest speaker this week with a sermon titled, Opening to a Sweet Surrender, as we consider the role of surrender, which can serve as an invitation for what might come into the spaciousness that we’ve made available. Ocken will explore everyday mysticism, and how one might use the spaciousness mysticism fosters to enhance one’s connection with a soul’s deepest longing.
A native Coloradan, Ocken has had a lifelong love affair with the world and will share some of her photography as inspiration. She lives in Durango with her husband where she lives the questions of life through eco-spirituality, depth psychology, soul-collage, mysticism, new cosmology and jigsaw puzzles.
Join us Sunday, October 4 at 10:30am for this inspiring service, and check out the schedule for the month ahead.
Oct 11 – Going Deeper Sharing Circle – 10:30 am
This lightly-facilitated group is a place for sharing and a practice in deep listening. The broad topic of Living the Question will no doubt be food for the soul, so bring your open mind and loving heart.
Oct 18 – Sunday Service, 10:30 am – Meet the Moment Grounding Questions
Come for an engaging video and discussion as we navigate this moment we are in. Meet the Moment framework from the UUA offers goals in building collective understanding about the context and realities we are navigating, and how we are called in our values to respond to that landscape.
Oct 25 – Action Sunday! 10:30 am
As we engage our lived values in the world, we take actions to learn and respond to justice making. On the Sunday prior to election day, we will learn more about the work of UUCAN – UU Colorado Action Network and share information from the Solidarity Summit held earlier this month.
Our Community Hub is home to several other gatherings and are open to all.
The weekly Tara Meditation practice starts up this week, and continues Sunday evenings from 5:30-6:30 p.m. A few specifics about this weekly practice follow: Learn meditation and the purpose of meditation. Just bring a kind heart and an open mind. We can even help you to find those! Newcomers are always welcome. Meditation is reviewed and practiced every week so that newcomers can learn comfortably alongside regulars. Practice is followed by a short talk and discussion. The group is currently working our way through Lama Migmar’s book The Wisdom Gone Beyond, Teachings on the Heart Sutra. Can’t attend in person? Join us on Zoom. Please email PUUF to be added to our meditation email list.
Qi Gong Practice, held Mondays – 1pm
Wise and Wakeful Circle, 2nd & 4th Saturdays – 10am
You can find us at the Greenbriar Plaza, 301 N. Pagosa Blvd. Unit B-15, on the north side facing the Pagosa Peak. We also offer Zoom services the first and third Sundays of the month. Find our current newsletter at PagosaUU.org for the link to join on Zoom and for further information.