Resources
Sermon Suggestions
To Gather Paradise by Rev. Jon Luopa (University Unitarian Church in Seattle, WA)
Website Tools
Book suggestions
Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives, by Wayne Muller
Quotes from the book:
“When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.”
“Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.”
Organizations
Center for Courage and Renewal: reconnecting who you are with what you do. A model of retreats developed by author Parker Palmer.
Putting Religious Education In Its Place 