<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv8883560147"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6763"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6762"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413">Hi All - </div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413">I'm sharing this from the youth con worship service held a few weeks ago. Obviously with the sunshine it doesn't pertain today, but for any "gray" day ahead...</div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413">-Claire</div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8883560147qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6764"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv8883560147yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6765"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3416" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3415" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3414"> </div> <div class="yiv8883560147y_msg_container" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3479"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv8883560147"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3484"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3483"><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3482" style=""><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3481" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3480" face="tahoma, sans-serif">I AM NOT ALONE. THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ME. By Heather Rion Starr</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6766"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3485" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">May I move gently through this cloudy, murky, gray day.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3486" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3487" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6887">May I remember that this is just one day,</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3488" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3512" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">and that showing up is at least half of what is asked of me.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6888"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3513" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">May I set aside my underlying anxiety that I will not get to everything</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">and put my trust and faith onto the riverbank of human community — we are working together.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3514" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3516" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3515" face="tahoma, sans-serif">I am not alone. There is a Love holding me that is unconcerned with my day's to-do list and more</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3517" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3519" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3518" face="tahoma, sans-serif">concerned with my spirit's survival, even its thriving, in this beautiful, challenging world. May we all</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3520" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3522" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3521" face="tahoma, sans-serif">remember that Rome wasn't built in a day, that our efforts are part of an ongoing stream of efforts,</font></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6882"><br><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6881">of lives being lived beside one another, shoring up this world.</span><br></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd01081"><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3591" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6773"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6772">May what little I do today be for the greater good.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6771"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3648" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3647" face="tahoma, sans-serif">May I be gentle with others today as I long for others to be gentle with me.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3646" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3645" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">May it be so.</font></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd12988"><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_extra" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3603"><br clear="all"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3614"><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_signature" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3613"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3612"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3611"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3610"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3609"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3608"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3607"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3606"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3605"><b style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Kimberlee Carlson</span></b><b style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><i><br clear="none">Prog</i></b><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://www.uurockford.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></a><b style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><i>ra</i></b><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://www.uurockford.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://www.uurockford.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></a><b style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><i>m Director</i></b><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3644"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.uurockford.org/">The Unitarian Universalist Church</a> Rockford, IL<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pd@uurockford.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:pd@uurockford.org"><br clear="none"></a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pduurockford@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pduurockford@gmail.com"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">pd</font>uurockford@gmail.com</a> <span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">(815)398-6322</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd63683"> </div></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd06623"> </div></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd35403"> </div></div></div></body></html>