Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Unity this month are:

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond. – Gwendolyn Brooks in Paul Robeson

– What does being part of someone else’s harvest, business, magnitude, or bond ask of us?

 

Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too
Imagine all the people / Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will be as one.
– John Lennon in Imagine

– Can you imagine “the world will be as one?” What does it look like?

 

Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
– Octavia Butler in Parable of the Sower

– Has divisiveness or division ever cost you anything? What have you seen them destroy?

 

And then all that has divided us will merge
And then compassion will be wedded to power
And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind
And then both men and women will be gentle
And then both women and men will be strong
And then no person will be subject to another’s will
And then all will be rich and free and varied
And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many
And then all will share equally in the Earth’s abundance
And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old
And then all will nourish the young
And then all will cherish life’s creatures
And then all will live in harmony with each other and the Earth
And then everywhere will be called Eden once again.
– Judy Chicago

– When have you found a sense of wholeness in your life, and what were its fruits?