RE Weekly Newsletter  July: Family

FIND US ON INSTAGRAM Follow us here! . PARENT RESOURCES Learn more about Soul Matters curriculum guides . JOIN OUR RE FACEBOOK PAGE Here . "Every day Do something that makes your heart sing". -Marcia Wieder Think of people who cheer you on, who believe i you and give you courage. Maybe it's a partner, a coworker, or a friend. Write down the people in your life whom you are most grateful for. Extend a kind note acknowledging them. WELCOME UU Friend Here we are. A week after our Thunder Moon and illustrious firework display. Many businesses have begun to close and appreciation for essential workers like our nurses and teachers, delivery drivers and grocery check out clerks are on the rise. We are here and yet we are far. The distance tugs at our hearts and yet we continue to do our every day routines, in this new now, taking safety to an entirely new level. People are learning new hobbies and embracing once hibernated talents as we are reaching the half way point in our summer season. With all of this transpiring around us, what are you doing to stay in your present moment? How are you giving yourself the opportunity to stay grounded? Are you indulging in self care by enjoying a simple cup of coffee or taking a walk in your neighborhood? These newsletters are for you and your family to notice that the key hole we are peeking through, can indeed be widened by expanding your perspective. Recognizing the ideas we have of this construct of reality is only based on what we can fathom and formulate in our own minds. It is not definite. What can we do to exist in gratitude to appreciate what we do have? Visit our website

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Ms. Jeanay & Ms. Trish Sabbath Space Family Worship Week Three Week Five is the final session of “Creating Sabbath Spaces” from Soul Matters Sharing Circle. We have been enriched by hearing from those of you who have been able to use this gift to create warmth and beauty for your family members who are isolated in this time of uncertainty and sickness.   As this is the last of our sessions, we are saying a goodbye of sorts. And yet we also hope this session represents a hello to a new and additional way of practicing your Unitarian Universalism. It is our hope that a Chalice Home and a weekly family sabbath experience become a regular part of your family life. We especially hope that you keep your Chalice Home in place and continue to add symbolic tokens and objects to it." - Katie Covey, Teresa Honey Youngblood and Rev. Scott Tayler Ms. Trish's & Ms. Jeanay's Last Sunday Lesson July 5th Lesson Subscribe to our RE YouTube Page!! RE Classes K-12th Grade - YouTube Hello and Welcome! Please take the time to sit and follow the lessons with your children and youth. There are many activities you all can do right at home. Read more www.youtube.com Week 5: " Celebrating Your Spiritual Community " This fifth week and last week, our focus turns to adding a picture of the door of your congregation to your Chalice Home.   This element reminds us that church homes are not just a building we go to but also communities we take with us wherever we go. This is especially important to remember during this time of not getting to gather inside our physical buildings. This week will also be a time to remember that we are not just welcomed in by the “doors” of our churches; we are also sent out. To honor this we will celebrate the many gifts our congregations give us as well as the many ways our church communities inspire us to give ourselves to others. Sabbath Space Week 5 Lesson Using Your Chalice Home: Not Just for Sundays or Family Worship Besides using it for Sunday morning as the focal point for Sabbath worship, consider: ● using your altar to begin your day. It can be something as simple as lighting the chalice and reading a poem before or after breakfast. ● Or try it as a bedtime ritual, closing the day together. ● And each person can always visit it whenever they feel the need to center themselves. 'Earth Song' - Michael Jackson Family Sabbath Activities: " Light Through Many Windows" A metaphor that resonates with many Unitarian Universalists about the Holy is that it is like light shining through many windows . There is one source of Life and Truth, but the way people of different religions see and feel it is different, depending on the size, shape, color, etc. of their “window,” or their faith tradition. In an age of news that sounds like noise and truth that sounds like fiction, it can be a great comfort to think of a truth that is beyond all distortion--the Love that is at the heart of all creation.

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Calendar Connections

Who is Malala? "I was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12, 1997. Welcoming a baby girl is not always cause for celebration in Pakistan — but my father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, was determined to give me every opportunity a boy would have." "I spoke out publicly on behalf of girls and our right to learn. And this made me a target. In October 2012, on my way home from school, a masked gunman boarded my school bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” He shot me on the left side of my head. I woke up 10 days later in a hospital in Birmingham, England. The doctors and nurses told me about the attack — and that people around the world were praying for my recovery." "With my father, who has always been my ally and inspiration, I established Malala Fund, a charity dedicated to giving every girl an opportunity to achieve a future she chooses. In recognition of our work, I received the  Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014  and became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate." Source •"She is a  Pakistani  activist for  female education  and the youngest  Nobel Prize  laureate.   •She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the  education  of  women  and children in her native  Swat Valley  in  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , northwest Pakistan, where the local  Taliban  had at times  banned girls from attending school . Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister  Shahid Khaqan Abbasi , she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country." Malala's Book

Henry David Thoreau   (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) Thoreau was an American  essayist ,  poet , and  philosopher . [3]  A leading  transcendentalist , [4]  he is best known for his book  Walden , a reflection upon  simple living  in natural surroundings, and his essay " Civil Disobedience " (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.  Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his  writings on natural history  and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of  ecology  and  environmental history , two sources of modern-day  environmentalism . " "His  literary  style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric,  symbolic  meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical  austerity , and attention to practical detail. [5]  He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and  illusion  in order to discover life's true essential needs. [5] He was a lifelong  abolitionist , delivering lectures that attacked the  Fugitive Slave Law  while praising the writings of  Wendell Phillips  and defending the abolitionist  John Brown . Thoreau's philosophy of  civil disobedience  later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as  Leo Tolstoy ,  Mahatma Gandhi , and  Martin Luther King Jr. [6] " Sourced from Wikipedia

Healthy Resources

Please review this website for your local food locations for Pinellas County Schools. Schools are providing food pick ups during the summer time! Times of pick-ups have changed so please review the link to see the new times!

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