Between Us – Love

By Rev. Clyde Grubbs, January 4, 2024

If we were to get our ideas from Hallmark Greeting Cards, we might think Love was a sentiment, something we could have and to hold. But Unitarian Universalists have taught us that “Love” is something we do. And we get better at it by doing it.

We love by remembering we must be peacemakers as Martin Luther King, Jr. insisted. Even when it means challenging the Cold War conformity that prevailed in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

We love when we are intimate with this earth in whom we live and move and have our being. And from that knowing that we are part of earth, we work to protect her and all the creatures of sea and earth and sky.

We love when we join in community such as we do at First Parish, sharing ourselves and supporting the common effort with our time and our financial contributions.

We love when we do not judge others in categories and instead accept each other for the wonderful revelation of divine potential that we are. And we love when we transcend the culture of me, and a narrow we, and embrace the possibilities of us, affirming multiculturalism and intergenerational possibilities.