#unitarian

So at the end of this general assembly the UUA will be releasing a virtual hymnal WHICH IT BEING VIRTUAL I HATEEEE

Opening phones to sing is church? Evil. I don’t want to. Give me my book.

Classist. Not everyone has a phone, or some people don’t have one that does much more then calls (flip phones)

Actively excludes children, the act of reading from the book with the children is so so so important!

AND IT GETS WORSE

So our other two hymnals are singing the living tradition and singing the living journey

THIS ONE IS CALLED SING OUT LOVE AND I HATE IT, IT DOESNT MATCH

Happy belated day of Saint Mary Magdalene. July 22.

I got this necklace years ago (I really like the look of it and it says: a loyal and courageous heart) which is when I discovered Mary Magdalene. She is one of my favorite saints, one close to my heart. She can be controversial as a saint since many frown upon her and her actions, but what always stuck to me was her loving heart, her loyalty (July 22 is also the start of Leo season which I see correlate). She was forgiven because of the love in her heart.

So I remind myself to be gentle with myself when I am in despair, a pit of guilt. Things I have done or regret now, when I feel like the enemy or just useless; I have love in my heart and everyone deserves to be tender with that, with themselves. You are not your past. You are not your mistakes. You are what you make of them and how you look upon them, and you let those chains go. You're forgiven because at the heart and soul of you, you're a good and loving creature among everyone else you forgive too.

Mary Magdalene loved with a relentless, unmoving love. Jesus said: "Many sins are forgiven her, because she has loved very much." In Luke 7:47, it is said "But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love."