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• Friends

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC May 17, 2015
  If you send me a friend rerquest, I will expect that you have read a bit about me in my profile and in my blogs.  I hope that if you send me a request because after reading them you find that me have some spiritual value to one another.  I do not expect that anyone embraces my beliefs as t...

• Triquetra

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC May 11, 2015
  Triquetra (/traɪˈkwɛtrə/; Latin tri- "three" and quetrus "cornered") originally meant "triangle" and was used to refer to various three-cornered shapes. It has come to refer exclusively to a particular more complicated shape formed of three vesicae piscis, sometimes with an added circle in or around...
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• Touching the Earth

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 18, 2014
  The Five Earth Touchings ~ from "Happiness" by Thich Nhat Hanh April 20, 2013 at 1:58am In Plum Village we do a practice called “Touching the Earth” every day. It helps us in many ways. You too could be helped by doing this practice. When you feel restless or lack confidence in ...
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• Morning Cup

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 18, 2014
  For how many is coffee a morning "ritual"?  Or do you try to make it so? I know simply pour a cup, an drink it down and perhaps have another. Have you tried slowing it down a bit, drinking it "deeply", slowly allowing the warm liquid to reach all corners of your mouth, to feel it soothing ...

• 7 Principles and 6 Sources

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 12, 2014
  It is said that if you have spoken to one UU, well then you have spoken to one UU.  Likewise, if you have attended one UU church, you have only attended one UU church.  The richness of diversity among our congregrations and among the member of each congregration makes it difficult to expla...
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• Spiritual Practice

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 11, 2014
  Preventative maintenance, if you own a car, or anything mechanical or even a residence, you are probably familiar with term. Preventative maintenance is taking care of something so it will not break down. Oil change on your car, painting your house, maintaining your yard etc are examples of preventa...

• One Light, Many Windows

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 10, 2014
  I love this sermon by the late Rev Forrest Church, I have read it many times, so I thought I would share it here.     ONE LIGHT, MANY WINDOWS by Forrest Church October 6, 2002   I have a question for you. If somebody were to ask "What do you believe?," do you ...

• Patience/Persistence

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 9, 2014
  Persistence/Patience     You feel like a drop in the bucket? Who asked you to fill the bucket-----especially all alone?....persistence depends on patience, on keeping at it when there is little to reassure us.  It would be too bad to give up, to sit back, bemoan the sorry ...

• The Glass is already broken

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 9, 2014
  "This Glass is Already Broken" "This Glass is Already Broken" Stephen & Ondrea Levine an excerpt fromWho Dies?: An Investigationof Conscious Living and Conscious Dying Once someone asked a well-known Thai meditation master, "In this world where everything changes, where nothing remains the sam...

• Carrying Judgment

  by Rev. Vernon Campbell ULC August 9, 2014
  Carrying Judgment     Two monks were casually walking by a stream. As they passed, a woman standing at its waters edge was struggling to get across. She asked softly if one of them could help her complete her mission (They had vowed not to touch women.) One of the two, without much...