It is in remembering them that we create a space to hold our loved ones. In marking these special moments, we create space to memorialize them. Let us join together to memorialize those we have lost.
Many of us are taught that we can’t ask for help without showing weakness. Others of us are taught that to be successful we must depend only on ourselves to do well. How do we move beyond this sense of toxic individualism to live interdependently?
As Unitarian Universalists we seek to live into covenant with each other. In our quest to live in covenant and to build and maintain relationships we often misstep and cause hurt. How do we repair those relationships? How do we move past being hurt or hurting others?
What is embedded in your theological core? What do you want to be embedded there? Rev. Ali delivered this sermon on January 29, 2023 at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist congregation.
This homily was for the UUA Transgender Day of Remembrance Chapel service held annually on or near November 20 as part of a worldwide effort to recognize the lives of trans people who were killed in the past year.
This homily was delivered extemporaneously on March 15, 2020 the week that many states shut down schools, churches, and started strict social distancing. All the ministers at the CLF threw out their planned words and spoke from the heart on how they and their families were coping in light of the news and the vast unknown that stretched before us all in those early days of the pandemic. (Rev Ali’s homily starts at 7:19)