This Summer, our Sunday elementary children’s program is based on our 7th Unitarian Universalist Principle: “respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” The children will be visited by guests who will share their love for / expertise in areas that relate to this principle: environmental stewardship, animal-human relationships, food choices, local habitat issues, etc. Our hope is to speak to the need to love, to cherish, and to care for that interdependent web. -Kathleen Carpenter, Director of Religious Education for Children and Youth The human necessity is not just to know, but also to cherish and protect the things that are known, and to know the things that can be known only by cherishing. If we are to protect the worlds multitude of places and creatures, then we must know them, not just conceptually but imaginatively as well. They must be pictured in the mind and in memory; they must be known with affection, by heart, so that in seeing or remembering them the heart may be said to sing, to make a music peculiar to its recognition of each particular place or creature that it knows well . . . . . To know imaginatively is to know intimately, particularly, precisely, gratefully, reverently, and with affection. ~ Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:18:52 +0000
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