For many, the month of December is a time of stillness and cold, and it can be lonely. So we warm it up by welcoming love back, ushering in the return of light, and celebrating the resilience of our communities.

That you can contribute to the CLF while your do your shopping on Amazon?

To ride the train is to let the whole world in.

...that the CLF sponsors a blog page for UUs on the religion and spirituality site patheos.com?

Have you ever really thought about why we call those early settlers who came to New England seeking religious freedom “Pilgrims”?

Hope wakes up in her green-lit room, stretches, tugs at her flannel nightie, opens her limbs to the morning.

When I was a young adult, my inner and outer life resembled a Taoist poem I had memorized (and now only partly remember). It began, “There’s no path in front of you; that’s the track of your own foot…” and ended, “I speak of the road the butterfly cuts.”

At core, we Unitarian Universalists are wonderers and wanderers; pilgrim seems to capture the balance of focused aim and fluid adventure so integral to Unitarian Universalism.

Here is where I found my voice and chose to be brave.

“The only journey is the one within.” —Rainer Maria Rilke