At a Unitarian Universalist water ceremony, congregants shared what water taught them. The ritual was paired with the Jewish observances of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to frame re-creation as practical, grounded repair rather than total restart.
Re-creation begins where you are: honest appraisal of present reality guides gradual repair and change.
Repair is the core action of re-creating: intentionally mending relationships within yourself and with others is concrete spiritual work.
Water as symbol points to movement and interdependence: how water flows models how people and communities change and influence one another.
Search Google Map Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland Community. A particular way of engaging with a ritual gets rooted in our minds and our bodies. We'll share them all soon so you can read back over them and potentially contemplate them more deeply.
We also honored that this past weekend was the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish celebration of the creation of the universe. The deep understanding that we are never finished, but always have growing edges. We get honest about the current reality of our lives and relationships, and we become humbly aware of the gap between the present moment and a vision of wholeness.
The opportunity to re- create ourselves and the world around us. We re-create ourselves and the world around us based on present reality. We re-create ourselves and the world around us by beginning where we are.
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