Unitarian Fellowship of Houston

September 5	Labor Day	David Oxman & Gary Yokie
	On Monday, September 6th, most of us celebrate Labor Day with a lazy morning and a cookout in the afternoon. Join us on Sunday for a Unitarian Universalist perspective on this holiday.
September 12	Hymn Sandwich, with Water	David Garver
	This week we will have our annual Ingathering Water Ceremony, where we welcome back all who have traveled over the past year with our ritual merging of water from many destinations. This beloved annual service is an example of how ceremony and ritual are important to any fellowship, and is an opportunity to examine how our order of service and other traditions have evolved over time.
September 19	Stewards of the Earth and More!	Rev. John Pepper
	As UUs we often promote stewardship of the Earth but stewardship is necessary for much, much, more in our lives. Please join me as I broach this subject and this aspect of our lives that we need to be fully conscious of as we go about the ongoing process of building and creating our spiritual home at the Unitarian Fellowship of Houston.
September 26	If These Sanctuary Walls Could Speak	Christina Branum-Martin
	These sanctuary walls have been witness to all of our inevitable imperfections and our collective search for a practice of forgiveness. Recent scientific research suggests that forgiveness isn’t a rare transcendent quality or a cure for revenge: we are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we’ve given ourselves credit for. Knowing this, we can work to calm the revenge instinct in ourselves and others and embolden the forgiveness intuition. In community, this becomes our covenant.