In the sense in which we can ever be said to be at home in the world, we are at home not through dominating or explaining, or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.
— Milton Mayeroff

Tuesday Discussion Group, April 17, 10:15 am, Choices: Do we really have them in our lives? Do events shape what choices we can make? Are we in control? Join us for these meaningful discussions led by Liz Stone. The group will meet at the Quinta Loreto restaurant, Loreto 15.

Wednesday Lunch Bunch, April 18, 1:30 pm, Don Lupe, Salida a Celaya 12 (next to Pemex station).

Women's breakfast group meets at Oso Azul, Zacateros 17 at 9:30 each Saturday morning. All women are warmly invited. Men meet in the Jardin at 9:30am in front of the Parroquia and decide where to eat. The regular guys would like some new faces to join them!

At this Sunday’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Service, the Rev. Jake Morrill discusses the difficulty of making a whole-hearted commitment to personally implement the values we espouse.

Many people grew up singing the familiar song, "The Hokey Pokey," with its accompanying dance. It goes "You put your left hand in. You put your left hand out. You put your left hand in, and you shake it all about." The song continues in this fashion, with different body parts, until the last verse, which goes, "You put your whole self in...." In lives of faith, and of moral commitment, most of us are wary of putting our whole selves in. We might be comfortable dipping in a toe, or testing the waters. We might be comfortable offering an opinion. But whole-hearted commitment? Putting our whole lives in? Isn’t that too extreme?

Rev. Morrill will address the possible causes of resistance to whole-hearted commitment to personally implementing the values we espouse--the legitimate reasons we might shy away from the fray. He'll discuss the relative appeal of immersing oneself in pleasure and comfort, as opposed to the discomfort and fractiousness a life of integrity can invite. And then he will share some of what he sees as the rewards of the whole-hearted life, no matter the cost, as well as the clarity and courage such a commitment might take. The talk will include stories of noteworthy ditherers, including himself.

Jake Morrill, a native of East Tennessee, is husband to Molly, with whom he enjoys raising two sons. For fifteen years, he has served as Lead Minister of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from which he's on sabbatical until early May. Jake enjoys writing, and, last fall, released his second book of fiction, a novella called  The Cherry Jar. Jake grew up Unitarian Universalist, inspired by Sunday School teachers active in the Civil Rights movement. He is heartened to work alongside others these days, Unitarian Universalist and otherwise, who carry on in that tradition in East Tennessee, especially with regard to the human rights of undocumented workers and their families.

The U.U. Fellowship meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15, and welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. For information about our Children’s Sunday Program, contact us at epgoodwin@hotmail.com. The meeting room is wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit our website at uufsma.org.

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