What is the “glue” that holds us together?

• Friendliness, caring, love, activities, respect
• Family (close & extended), progressive movement, love, singing dancing & making music of all kinds
• Song around the fire, voices in the dark, call across the oceans, hands from heart to heart
• Family, friends, and love
• Our love and commitment to our children, our commitment to grow & evolve to learn that which we do not know,
• Belief in individual, fellowship, laughter, fun, food, dance, Barbara & Bill
• Awe for the gift of life, a wish to experience the divine, mutual respect though thoughts & beliefs may differ, earnestness in our efforts to be present & grow spiritually, the need for celebration for success from efforts for good, for sharing compassion in hard times, and for the emotional strength of others when we face challenges or grief
• Compassion, respect for all, the web
• The skill & love of our ministers and all those among us who minister to one another,
• Learning, sharing, love
• Openness, caring& sharing good times & bad, laughter, working on projects & events, singing, have fun, eating
• Love, commitment to doing what we can to make a better world
• Within the flow of the river of life there are unities, mine are musical, the making of music with others
• Minister Gannett’s words form the late 1800s: join hands & work to make the good, count nothing good for self that is not good for all. How we are with one another shapes us as a community
• Respect, love, fear, need, hope, curiosity
• The glue of community & humanity. We are joined together by our desires for a better, more peaceful and loving world
• Faith in our future, in ourselves, our church, hope for peace, for fellowship, for justice, for Sharing all of the above
  We are a covenanted community, we have made promises to each other to preserve and evolve the community and its individual members. Love is one of the glues.
• For me, this concrete pace holds us together. People come and go, die and move away, but the architectural container remains, holding the memories of the presence of all those who have passed this way.
• Love, friendship shared purpose, support for one another in times of joy and sorrow
• A hope that there I more to life than what is revealed in so much of our daily experience, faith that in community we will experience more love, hope that we will be empowered to share more love in the world.
• The acts that build right relations with each other & the world.
• Humanity & values
• Love, family and the awareness that we all share the same feelings
• Concern for the well-being of each other which leads to friendship & love
• An ethical community, love, caring, memories, shared values
• Tolerance & empathy
• The worth & dignity of each; the interconnected web of life
• The longing for meaning; the longing for connection
• Love is the glue that holds us. It is made of compassion and true listening.
• Common values, reaching out to one another, feeling safe
• The desire to nurture the best in ourselves so we might give it to others, that’s what keeps me coming
• Trust, open-mindedness, doing no deliberate hurt to any, preference for reason over ideology
• Concerned awareness, compassion
• Love & the longing for something better – more justice, more peace, longing for family, community & home
• Our need for community. Each of us is willing to give some part of self for the privilege of being part of this whole. We are thankful.
  See the same faces, week after week, recognizing that we are each part of the whole
• Belief that we are more than the sum of our parts
• Love
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  Optimism the belief in Hope and Growth
• Our commitment to something greater than ourselves, something that calls us to our best selves, to mend the world
• Smiles & hugs
• Love, gentleness, thoughtfulness, kindness, forgiveness, empathy
• Our emotional wounds, our experiences and memories, working through challenges together, working toward a shared goal, love, faith, hope
• Respect, understanding, openness, willing to think outside the box
• Hope, Openness, Breath, Love, Being Here Now, Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Creativity, Compassion, Listening, Music
• Family, Friends, Home
• Love, Friendship, the dream of having a good life, family
• Singing, working in the garden, playing games, praying, laughing at silly jokes, making dinner and sitting down with friends to eat, walking in the woods, drawing pictures, watching the waves
• The glue is a common desire to create companionship with others of like values and together work for the common good.
• The faith that we will make this a better place to live for all who live here.
• Mutual support, companionship
• Knowing we’re all in this together…
• Courage to explore what is out there
• Elbow grease
• We are born to be bound together, to bond in beauty and beatitude.
• We are held together by the outstretched arms that greet us and hold us.
• My mother, at 86, joined UUCB because she said it was the friendliest church she had ever been to.
• Within this family my heart is healed.
• A yearning for wholeness, for connection
• Love, family, common values, acceptance
• Mental diversity “You need not think alike to love alike.” UU proverb
• Human! A day without laughter is like a day without sunshine!
• In the words of our covenant, we “assume good intentions.”
• Love, Beauty, Wisdom, the Web of all existence, the spirit that shines in us and through us—every one of us!
• Our constant work to live up to our covenant, both the UUA’s and our covenant of right relations.
• The warm and immediate presence of our ministers who welcome us and help to heal
• The history, present experiences and future hope & plans; of being a UU for 50 years for me. Coming home, returning again & again & serving
• The Spirit of Life sings in all our hearts
• The openness to each others diverse history, points of views, faults and qualities; our striving to be better people; this is a place I always feel accepted and that I have a contribution to make.
• Love
• Compassion
• Being There Together
• The force
• Friends, family, community, love
• Love
• gitchie manitou (ojibway – great spirit)
• God is love that binds heart to heart – Logos is the word that opens us up to Life and beauty. To be true to yourself, Truth Sophia – the wisdom that we are not alone in the universe. Compassion is the cosmic glue; all my suffering is shared by you. Healing self and world is the work we do. Mindfulness begets gentle ways and peaceful days. Instead of harm, heal and praise.
• The desire to be of use and service to one another
• Gratitude, Love, Understanding, Enthusiasm, Energy, Empathy, Enlightenment
• Community ever-deepening, ever-evolving