Beyond Change, There is Healing - Audio
New Year's Resolutions--easy to make, rarely kept. Changing from the inside out creates transformation. Series is about getting in touch with ourselves and healing.
Jan 04, 2015•26 min
WellSprings Congregation
Weekly messages from WellSprings Congregation - a Community charged full with the charge of the soul. We are a Unitarian Universalist congregation located in Chester Springs, PA. To find out more, please visit www.wellspringsuu.org
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Episodes
Love Incarnate - Audio
Incarnation is God showing up in the world.
Dec 28, 2014•25 min
If Your Heart Grows, It's Christmas - Audio
Christmas Eve, 7:00 PM Service.
Dec 25, 2014•11 min
What Are You Waiting For? - Audio
Christmas Eve Service at 4:30 pm: Geared to families with elementary-age children.
Dec 25, 2014•7 min
Our Love Will Land - Audio
Josh Ritter sang, "Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied." Inspired by the song, Rev. Ken Beldon offered an additional thought in today's message: "Every heart is a present waiting to be unwrapped by someone else's love and grace."
Dec 15, 2014•16 min
Darkness Visible - Audio
Black lives matter. Yes, all lives matter, but whose lives have been treated as less, that's where love matters most. Inspired by the protests against police brutality across the country, Rev. Ken Beldon includes words from Chris Rock, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Bruce Springsteen, and others
Dec 07, 2014•27 min
Did You Know? - Audio
Where are you “in the dark” right now? What's unknown and waiting to emerge in your life? How might you keep watch by night, staying awake to what's here for you in the present?
Nov 30, 2014•28 min
Love Dares You - Audio
"I'd rather walk a hard road than have a hard heart. A hard heart, we are alone. A hard road, we can walk together." --Rev. Ken Beldon
Nov 16, 2014•25 min
Restoring Our Factory Settings - Audio
Rev. Ken this morning talked about love, belonging, and connection as essential to who we really are. "Knowing the awe in the awful doesn't mean we're grateful for what is awful. It means remembering how easily our hearts can break and how tenderly all our hearts are connected."
Nov 09, 2014•24 min
The Promise is Presence - Audio
Weekly messages from WellSprings Congregation - a Community charged full with the charge of the soul. We are a Unitarian Universalist congregation located in Chester Springs, PA. To find out more, please visit www.wellspringsuu.org
Nov 02, 2014•19 min
Twas Grace That Taught My Heart - Audio
Some words from today's message on grace from Rev. Ken Beldon: "Universalism says that there is a love so special, we don't have to be special to be loved."
Oct 19, 2014•21 min
Getting to There From Here - Audio
Creative and dynamic tension can help you grow and flourish. How do you open to tension as a dynamic source of meaning and fulfillment rather than just as a source of stress?
Oct 12, 2014•30 min
Facing Up - Audio
Continuing the message series based on Brene Brown's Daring Greatly, Rev. Ken Beldon examines how facing up to personal and societal challenges through honesty and vulnerability can help to heal shame and the belief that we're unworthy.
Oct 05, 2014•27 min
No Filter - Audio
In what places, communities, or relationships might you bring out more of the things that are close to your heart?
Sep 28, 2014•25 min
In Praise of Ordinary Days - Audio
Rev. Ken invited us to praise the ordinary in our lives, a way to really "be here" and see our lives more clearly. What ordinary experience are you praising today?
Sep 21, 2014•29 min
Bless the Mess - Audio
How do we find courage in the midst of our lives? How do we open up to the unknowns? The unfinished? The untidy? If we want to change the mess, first we have to bless the mess. Curses don't change anything.
Sep 14, 2014•23 min
Boyhood: Be the Clay, Not the Pottery - Audio
Our lives are always in formation, remember to "be the clay, not the pottery."
Aug 31, 2014•23 min
12 Years a Slave: Looking Directly at Our History - Audio
In the wake of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, Rev. Ken Beldon talks about 12 Years A Slave, the awful reality of white supremacy in America, and how we can become people who stand for loving kindness.
Aug 24, 2014•30 min
The Fault in Our Stars: What Keeps Us Up Can Wake Us Up - Audio
How do you keep yourself open and awake instead of trying to beat vulnerability to the punch?
Aug 17, 2014•27 min
Too Much Zucchini? - Audio
Can we have too much of a good thing? What are the blessings of abundance, even over-abundance?
Aug 10, 2014•15 min
Ode to Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Audio
This year we lost Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize and perhaps the most renowned novelist in the genre of magical realism. Dreams and myths mix. Questions, explorations and answers intangibly flow together. At times with baffling confusion history, present times and the future are woven like gorgeous tapestry. How do and can our religious lives benefit from this important way of approaching life?
Aug 03, 2014•23 min
20 Feet From Stardom: Harmony - Audio
From where or whom do you seek affirmation of your gifts? How might you connect to practices or communities that help you “check out your worth”?
Jul 27, 2014•26 min
Wet Hot American Summer: Cruel Grace - Audio
How has awkwardness, embarrassment, and uncomfortable growth shown up in your life? Where are you being forced to rest and receive?
Jul 20, 2014•23 min
Liberty - A Vote Not a Veto - Audio
Is liberty a shield or a sword? Is liberty a vote or a veto?
Jul 13, 2014•40 min
Revelancy: How Do We Know We Matter? - Audio
It's the kind of question that can keep us up at night: Do we matter? How do we know we matter? Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti challenges us to look deep inside to find the answer.
Jul 06, 2014•25 min
Waitress: Coming Clean - Audio
Spirituality isn't about being perfect. It is only through being honest about where we are that we can come to know the true power of grace and love in our lives. Inspired by the movie "Waitress," the tale of a young baker and her pies, Ministerial Intern Lee Paczulla shares a message as part of our SpiritFlix series, about "coming clean" with our feelings and experiences.
Jun 29, 2014•25 min
The Pursuit of Happiness - Audio
Are you chasing happiness, hoping if you do the right things or go the right direction, you'll find it? How do you create real happiness? Rev. Justin Osterman reminds all of us that happiness is not a destination at which we arrive, it's a state we cultivate; he explains why the pursuit of happiness leaves so many people far from it. What are you doing today to cultivate happiness?
Jun 22, 2014•25 min
Rise of the Guardians: Letting Go of Suffering - Nurturing Self and Others - Audio
The Sandman, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Santa. In the animated tale "Rise of the Guardians," these fairytale heroes team up to save the world. Rev. Kathy Ellis brings us a playful message about nurturing each other and ourselves.
Jun 15, 2014•21 min
I Am: Precious Human Birth - Audio
When successful Hollywood director Tom Shadyac suffered a life-changing injury, he asked, What's wrong with the world? Inspired by Shadyac's film "I AM," Rev. Ken Beldon reminds us to establish a spiritual practice and explore our capacity for compassion and connection.
Jun 08, 2014•27 min
Wanted: We Need Better Heroes - Audio
In the wake of the Boko Haram kidnappings and the Santa Barbara atrocity, Rev. Ken Beldon was reminded of the action movie "Wanted," a disturbing fantasy of masculinity realized through bloodshed. "As a man," he said, "I want to see more clearly the pathological sludge we're swimming in and producing. I want to do better, and I want us to do better.
Jun 01, 2014•31 min
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