July 16, 2023, 10:00 a.m.
“Powers That Be: Power Over and Power Within”
Rev. Sue Greer, UUSD Friend and ordained Spiritual Life Minister
Our culture and our world have lost connection to the Power Within, and we live dominated by the Power Over. So, it becomes our choice how we live in the world: Connected and alive to all life or disconnected, isolated in our separateness while dominating and attempting to control everything. Power Within calls us to action: To create, to love, to heal, to listen to the voices of the living world, and to stand for all life of which we are part. Power Over separates us from the living world and nature. We live as if we have superiority over everything. Life exists for consumption and control. Everything is seen as commerce: The value of human and animal lives, sex and the use of women, forest and trees, water, and the growing of food. Awakening to our true power, the Power Within, connects us to the grounded presence of our living earth and all our relations. Here we find the source of connection, our strength.
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