Reflections on Pandemic Life as a Family

You will mostly likely have heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child”. 

As a congregation we at UUCUC form our own “village” in a very real way.   Our parents, busy about the life work of raising children, form a  sacred and essential part of who we are as a community…. of our village.

As someone whose own two children are young adults now I have often wondered and worried about … parents… and children… having to cope with the realities of the lockdown due to Covid.

On Sunday April 3rd the service will lift up the lockdown stories of parents and their lives the past two years led by our Consulting DRE and mother of 3 children Adrienne Summerlot supplemented by the learnings and inspirations of UUCUC parent Debbie Sperry. What ever your life circumstances we dearly hope you will join us, whether in person or on line. The goal of the morning will be to help all of us have a better understanding of and appreciation for what our beloved parents and families with children at home have been going through, what they have learned, and what has helped them  along the way.  

Our wonderful UUCUC choir will also be singing LIVE in the Sanctuary with “Prayer for Ukraine” by Mykola Lysenko, arr. Benjamin Hanson.

By Rev Karen Bush