10-28-2018
11:14 am - 12:15 pm
Family Ministry Office

Love is Eternal

This session focuses on the sixth Unitarian Universalist Source—in children’s language, “the harmony of nature and the sacred circle of life.” Drawing on the wisdom of earth-centered traditions, the session connects love with the age-old human question “What happens when we die?” Participants hear some ways people have answered this question and learn that Unitarian Universalists believe we cannot really know the answer. Participants learn that when we remember people we love, they live on in our hearts and minds, and that the love we give when we are alive lives long after our death.

Take Home

In today’s session we talked about ways of understanding death, drawing on wisdom from the sixth Unitarian Universalist Source, “Spiritual teachings of earth centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.” This Source is expressed in children’s language as “the harmony of nature and the sacred circle of life.”

Try making a family tree together. You might include loved ones in your extended family, including relatives by adoption and remarriage. You may wish to include pets, as well. Talk about family stories that have been passed down. Focus on legacies each loved one left behind—ways their lives and their acts of love are still part of your family.

Check it out: Session 6