Religious Exploration/Education
March's Theme is Commitment
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Hello Families,
We UU families have a wonderful resource called The Soulful Home. If you haven't looked through it yet, I highly recommend it! It's a monthly packet of ideas for infusing UU faith and ideas into your family life in simple, daily ways. And this week is about taking care of ourselves. It's about giving ourselves the nourishment, encouragement, energy and love that we need to make it through our day and do the work we are meant to do in the world. I encourage you to try out the self-love meditation in our mindful moment section below and to learn the song in this week's two minute video.
And of course, let's keep using our imaginations and having fun! So for that, you are invited to participate in our stuffie sleepover! See below for details :)
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I Behold you, Beautiful One |
In this week's super short video, Hippo and I teach you a song. We invite you to sing this song to yourself, to your loved ones, to the seeds you plant, and to every living being on this planet.
I behold you, beautiful one
I behold you, child of the earth and sun
Let my love wash over you
Let my love watch over you
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I Am Enough, by Grace Byers. The first link is just the book, read aloud. This link is read by the author, with her own side comments. I lovely, rhyming book of empowerment. |
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Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows, by Jessica von Innerebner. Read by the author, this is is a wonderful book, showing that it's ok to have a bad day. Even sparkly, perfect, magical unicorns have less than perfect days. |
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The Good Egg, by Jory John and Pete Oswald. This cute story is about an egg who always tries to be "good" and help the rest of his dozen friends to be good. But the pressure is too much! So he takes a break for some self-care. |
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Videos (for older kids and adults) |
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A lovely interview with five middle school students. They talk about their struggles and what they do to calm and ground themselves.
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It starts with "Everything is awful and I'm not ok. (questions to ask before giving up)" Like "are you hydrated? Have you eaten recently? showered? exercised? cuddled with a living being?" These simple questions can turn a day around and remind us to take care of the simple things in life.
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It’s a truth almost so ubiquitous that it’s tempting to dismiss it as a cliché, but it’s too important to let go: in order to be the people we are meant to be, and want to be, and that the world needs, we must, must, must take care of ourselves. Yoga and meditation teacher Tracee Stanley offers a free guided meditation on self-love on her website
Invitation: Listen to this gentle, 15 minute meditation. (You need to sign up for her newsletter to access it, but of course, can unsubscribe afterward if you choose.) It is a seated meditation. If that position doesn’t work for you, use whatever position does. If you do this meditation with young children, consider having paper and crayons or markers out so younger children can draw as they listen. If sustained attention is difficult, try to hold out for minute 11:55, where Stanley asks us to repeat affirmations. This can be a powerful experience for children to do with their adults.
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Register here for all the fun!
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It's a Stuffie Sleepover in RE! |
Your stuffed animals and dolls are invited to a sleepover! Even though we can’t be there in person, our stuffed animal and doll friends can! After a quarantine period in their cozy bin, the animals will explore all the inside and outside spaces of UUCSC and play together, just like you did when you came to church! They'll even have an Easter egg hunt! And their animal chaperones will take lots of pictures so that you can hunt for the eggs in the pictures on Easter Sunday!
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We are expanding our offerings, so I hope you can make it to some of the following:
EVERY SUNDAY, 9am-9:30: Kid Circle Time. We have a lovely, simple time together, sharing Roses/Buds/Thorns, singing a song.
THIRD SUNDAYS, 9:30-10am: Adult Sharing Time. Last time was wonderful with seven families joining in on a conversation about raising anti-racist kids. Join us next month on March 21st!
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Look what I found under the leaf litter right outside of RE......!! |
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