Does someone have to be female to have maternal instincts?If you care for other people in a nurturing way, aren’t you being maternal, even if you aren’t a mother? Think of it. We all experience men and women with maternal qualities of love, patience, empathy, strength, and humility. The Mother’s Day celebrations can be a time that we all expand our ideas of roles and responsibilities.
Abundance? The Earth Is Asking.
Politicos on the Left and Right have used the buzz words abundance and scarcity for decades to justify their government policies and practices. But too few have ever paid enough attention to Earth’s all-encompassing ecology—and our UU Seventh Principle, “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.”