Spirit In Practice

October 2024-February 2025
​Led by Rev. Jay Wolin
First Thursday Evening 6:30pm-8pm
Following Sunday via Zoom 3-4:30pm
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Contemplative teacher Thomas Keating describes our ordinary thoughts as “boats sitting on a river, so closely packed together that we cannot see the river that’s holding them up.” The contemplative path helps us to direct our attention from the individual boats to the deep river on which they are resting. I invite you to join me in a  five-month program in which we will lean into our “spiritual hearts” and watch and listen for the spirit’s loving presence and movement in our individual lives and in the life of the Unitarian Universalists of Sarasota.

No prior spiritual practice experience needed, just an open heart and a willingness to commit to the journey.
We will experiment with different spiritual practices such as

• Meditation
• Lectio Divina
• Prayer
• Labyrinth
• ???

Each month will include a check in, an experience with a spiritual practice, and a time for discernment on specific themes such as

• The Spiritual Life
• Personal Discernment
• Group Discernment
• Spiritual Worship
• Integrating Spirit and Congregational Life

If you are interested in this journey of spiritual exploration, please contact Rev. Jay Wolin at [email protected]