What Helps You to TRANSFORM?
by Laci Lee Adams,
HUUC Director of Lifespan Faith Development
Fall brings with it so much change. We experience the changing temperature and see the beauty of new splashes of color that will give way to a more barren landscape, just as our rhythms and routines change with the transition from summer fun to back to school.
So too our building and grounds have been undergoing so many transformations. Our classrooms are in the midst of transition. One classroom now sports a “In this Place, We Are …..” mural that expresses our many hopes, dreams, aspirations and values for our kids. Once the furniture is built and installed that classroom will serve as a MakerSpace for our young people. The preschool classroom is in the midst of its own transformation into a contemplation forest. One wall is already done and we are working hard to create a TreeShelf out of many of our cherished trees that have either comedown in the recent storms or needed to be taken down due to their health. Those trees will undergo their own transformation, but will continue to bring beauty to our community.
We too as a community are experiencing our own transformation as we begin the process of celebrating Rev. Bill’s ministry and retirement at the end of this church year. This change brings with it so many questions about who we are, who we want to be and how we become what we dream about.
I am taking spiritual lessons from the monarch butterfly in this season of transformations. Being a monarch is hard work! It requires a willingness to eat up the world around you. Next, you have to allow yourself to fully give into a transformation. Then when you emerge a spirit of adventure is required to make your long migration. But the power of that transformation is that it produces something so very beautiful.
I want to embrace the fullness of that beauty, so I am trying to delve deeply into this time of transformation.
Best,
Laci
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