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Enneagram Series: We each take in the world, process what we’ve experienced, and make decisions through a combination of instinct, feeling, and thinking, though most of us over-rely on one of those three. The rub is that the one we rely on most is also where we are stuck and least free. And that means there is hope.  

Worship Associate Gail Johnson Vaughan

Reading by Beth Karow

Music by Toby Thomas-Rose, Kate Canan, Randy McKean

Enneagram Series- Type Six (6): We enter the world absolutely dependent upon those fallible humans who are caring for us, and so when we are young, we cannot help but be afraid, at times, that we won’t have the support or guidance we need or be able to survive on our own. This sends some of us on a life-long search for security, and sends some us in what looks like the exact opposite direction. Come, consider your own (Enneagram) sixy self.

Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate

Reading by Ruth Ghio

Music performed by Kate Canan, Leonna Sapphire, and Tom Wernigg

Toby Thomas-Rose, piano

Enneagram Series- Type Eight (8): In the midst of current and confounding “strong man” energies in national and world politics, we draw on Enneagram insights (Type 8) to consider the ways that strength, power, and control sometimes arise in each of us as ideals to protect ourselves from feeling vulnerable, uncertain, powerless.

Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Lindsay Dunckel, Worship Associate

Scottie Hart, reader

Enneagram Series: In this second service in Rev. Kevin's Enneagram series, worship associate Sophia McKean and Rev. Kevin invite us to consider our personal paths toward emotional and spiritual wholeness, paths of growth that invite our self-acceptance, above of all, paths that lead us home.

Enneagram Series: Wisdom from numerous sacred and secular traditions teaches that each of us has in some important ways fallen asleep to our true nature, to our essential self, to who we really are. The key for each of us is to learn to notice the ways we keep ourselves asleep, to realize that so much of our habitual searching prevents us from getting what we truly seek, and to discover, with compassion, that the box we are in is of our own making.   

This is the first in a year-long series of services drawing on the Enneagram as a tool for our internal journey, our self-acceptance, and thus our well-being and our growth.

Rev. Kevin Tarsa, minister

Cheryl Morris, worship associate