What Would You Become if You Weren’t Afraid of Disappointing People?

Today Cheri Taylor will reflect upon on the spiritual courage in disappointing other people’s expectations of us.  This is especially true for women, Black people, caregivers, leaders, and people whose identities come with expectations about being agreeable, strong, respectable, grateful, or endlessly available.  How do we distinguish courageous authenticity from selfishness? [Sun Image from Susan Podebradsky]

Cheri works as a fundraising professional. She currently serves as a philanthropy and major gifts officer for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and previously served as Major Gift Officer for the UUA, and as Membership and Development Coordinator for First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee.

  • The Share the Plate for Sundays Sept 27th and Oct 4th is Goodman Community Center Thanksgiving Baskets. This is the place in our schedule where this recipient fits best and the money can be delivered in time to help.  The Goodman Community Center on the near east side has been giving away Thanksgiving baskets for decades, providing families with everything they need to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal at home. They started by serving several hundred families. This year they will serve four thousand – that’s more than 25,000 Dane County residents (including more than 10,000 children!

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Order of Service

  • Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
  • Welcome
  • Prelude: “Courage” by Ahlay Blakely
  • Call to Worship 9
  • Lighting the Chalice and Musical Response 10
  • Centering in Beauty
  • Shared Music: “Just as Long as I Have Breath” #6
  • Time for All Ages: “A Spring That Stopped Time” by Dani Frame
  • Shared Music: “Morning Hymn” from Sing Out Love
  • Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Speaking Your Truth” by Audre Lorde
  • Reflection: “What Would You Become?” with Cheri Taylor
  • Offering: “Gather Your Courage”by Coco Love Alcorn, Moira Smiley, Màiri Britton, and Adah Hetko
  • Joys and Sorrows
  • Shared Music: “We Rise” Sing Out Love
  • Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
Notes

“Whose Life is it Anyway?” Song video (Susan Podebradsky) used as musical interlude in Reflection

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