I grew up in a music school—that is to say, our home was filled most afternoons and evenings with music teachers and students playing scales and études.

A spiritual practice is something which you repeat regularly that grounds you in depth and connection.

It was sometime in the 1980s. We were at a UU Religious Educators retreat northeast of Minneapolis and I remember my roommate saying from the other twin bed in our room, “Ginger, I think I should let you know I am a lesbian.”

During the ten years of Meg Riley’s leadership as senior minister for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, we have changed and grown in a wide variety of ways.

Letting go can be a spiritual practice. I should know, I’ve been doing it for a while as I prepare to leave CLF.

One of the important things that the CLF does is serve as a teaching congregation, providing an internship or other learning site for people in ministerial formation.

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Every morning,

even being very old,

(or perhaps because of it),

I like to make my bed.

In fact, the starting of each day unhelplessly

is the biggest thing I ever do.

The fundamental belief in the value of the individual has long held a central place in liberal religion, and finds a modern expression in our faith’s first principle, an affirmation of the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

I used to be someone who beat myself up for every fault, even ones that no one else knew about.