Paying Attention to Paying Attention: How to Break the Spell – Part One
Who seeks to control your mind… your thoughts… your emotions… your sense of reality? There are those who profit in the billions from keeping you a prisoner of fear and anxiety. These are those who want you to stay disconnected, mistrustful and looking to them to tell you what is real. These entities have well honed efforts to target, seduce and keep you addicted. They are compelled to aggressively seek to tell you who you are, what you want and what you need… even down to your values and outlooks in life.
This is not new in our world. Not by a long shot.
What is new is the ease of access these who are determined to control you now have to you… almost every moment of every hour of every day… where ever you are (almost) on the planet.
Across the religions and through out human history spiritual teachers continue to spend great energy warning us and helping us to take back our focus… to free our minds.
On Sunday August 21 you are invited to come join us for the magic of live dueling banjo music along with our wonderful choir (led by our new choir director M.R.) who will all help us take delight and to celebrate life.
In her message our interim lead minister, Reverend Karen Bush will challenge us to embrace a centuries old life saving/life giving “antidote” as together we pull back the curtain to further bring to light the contenders in this war for our attention.
In this week’s message will be the first in a series of sermons by Reverend KB through this fall on one of the greatest spiritual challenges of being human: “How to wake up!”
We hope you will join us!
Children’s RE&E will be available during this service.
During the service, the congregation will be recognizing all those present who are going back to school… whether they started this week or will start in the days ahead… from preschool all the way up to college!
Our ministers will have a very special gift to give to each of our students early on in the service.
Whether or not you have a school age child in your family we hope to see you all because it’s Back To School Time and we all want to Celebrate our UUCUC Students!