ReNew: American Multitudes - Audio
How do you recognize the danger of a single story in your life? How do you practice enlarging your stories? The message series ReNew explores transformation of our spirits.
Oct 03, 2016•28 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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ReNew: Beginner's Mind, Beginner's Heart - Audio
What helps you to look again and see things and yourself anew? Do you need to subtract from your perception to enlarge your perceiving? The message series ReNew explores transformation of our spirits.
Sep 26, 2016•23 min
ReNew: The Greening of Things - Audio
Rev. Ken Beldon asks, what is greening in your life today? The message series ReNew explores transformation of our spirits.
Sep 19, 2016•23 min
Kubo and the Two Strings: The Ties That Bind - Audio
What experiences of love have allowed you to change? How do you learn how to "use your freedom?"
Aug 29, 2016•28 min
The Martian: Resilience and Refuge - Audio
The film "The Martian" inspires Rev. Ken Beldon to ask: What relationships in your life have helped you name and realize your strengths in the face of adversity? What are your sources of true refuge?
Aug 22, 2016•24 min
When The Heart's Intention Guides Us - Audio
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Aug 14, 2016•25 min
The Witch: The Ghosts Between Our Ears - Audio
What “ghosts between your ears” are you most likely to believe? How do you distinguish between fantasy and ethical imagination?
Aug 08, 2016•26 min
The Waitress: Coming Clean - 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
Jul 31, 2016•24 min
Magnolia: A Place For Your Stuff - Audio
The film "Magnolia" is a story of extraordinary coincidences in people's lives. It's also a story that asks us: What do you trust and who do you love when you're confused? What are your practices for facing your “stuff?”
Jul 25, 2016•32 min
Finding Dory: Only The Lost Help Us Get Found - Audio
The animated film "Finding Dory" inspired some questions: What self-considered weakness or challenge of yours has become a source of strength and connection? What have you learned at the times in your life when you were lost?
Jul 18, 2016•31 min
Gravity: Not Up or Down, But Near or Far - Audio
The sci-fi movie "Gravity" is not only a visual marvel, it's a meditation on connection. What has you feeling disconnected and untethered? What helps you feel connected and close, even in difficult times?
Jul 11, 2016•26 min
Joy: Waiting and Watching - Audio
The title character of the film "Joy" struggles to break out of her life and into a new one. Is there someone, or something, that wants to be seen in your life? How might you make space to watch and wait for it to emerge?
Jul 04, 2016•28 min
The Lobster: Looking for Love - Audio
In the weird world of "The Lobster," love is turned into a strange race against an uncertain fate. Where do you crave connection in your life right now? Despite the risks, how might you practice staying open to love?
Jun 27, 2016•21 min
This Is Water: Conspiring is Grateful - Audio
What are you grateful for right now? What are you conspiring with in your life?
Jun 20, 2016•29 min
Always Be Closing: Beyond ‘Man Enough’ - Audio
The movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" pits man against man in a cruel office contest. What are the expectations of gender that you grew up with? How are you participating in non-exploitative, healing ways of being?
Jun 13, 2016•29 min
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Thank You For Waking Me Up - Audio
How do you invite yourself to see what you may be missing? What difficult thing happened to you that helped you to wake up? This message was inspired by the movie "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl."
Jun 06, 2016•24 min
I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today: Steady Faith - Audio
Where does the impulse to fix show up in your life? How might you practice standing firm around one of your core values?
May 30, 2016•32 min
Stories With Soul: "Shadow: The First Work Was Play” - Audio
A stray sock not only inspired today's message, it inspired an original song! Rev. Ken Beldon reminds us that playfulness is an expression of the Buddhist concept of "beginner's mind." Words by Rev. Ken, music by Teresa Nazario, performed live by Melissa Davignon.
May 23, 2016•22 min
Stories With Soul: "I Know An Old Lady: When Medicine Becomes Poison" - Audio
Are there pains in your life right now that are asking for time to be digested? Are there areas in your life for which you are compensating that you might learn to let be? This message is inspired by children's literature
May 16, 2016•22 min
May You Be Well: More Care, Less Self - Audio
Have you had any ecstatic experiences that have changed and enlarged your perspective on life? What are your experiences of flowing ways of being, and how do you open to flow in your life?
May 09, 2016•26 min
May You Be Well: Tension Before Balance - Audio
1) What practices teach you how to hold different energies together in your life? 2) Where in your life are you currently integrating opposing values?
May 01, 2016•27 min
May You Be Well: Yes...No...Maybe - Audio
1) How do you allow yourself space for creative inconsistency? 2) How does your practice of self-care show up in your most important relationships?
Apr 24, 2016•27 min
May You Be Well: Soft and Squishy - Audio
1) In what kinds of situations are you likely to see your life as functional? 2) What practices of self-care can you use to interrupt those moments?
Apr 17, 2016•27 min
May You Be Well: Little By Little, Enough By Enough - Audio
1) How do you disengage the auto-pilot and return to presence? 2) What are the ways that you experience “enough, for now?”
Apr 10, 2016•23 min
May You Be Well: Planting Season - Audio
1) Do you make self-care a priority? 2) How do you show faith in what's unfolding in you?
Apr 03, 2016•24 min
The End Is Where We Start: Living After We Die - Audio
1) How do you experience the “all that is in each of us?” 2) What in your life is asking for permission to be let go?
Mar 27, 2016•25 min
The End is Where We Start: Simple Sadness - Audio
1) How do you allow yourself to be with what is, as it is? 2) Have you experienced important moments of loss that helped re-orient your perspective? If so, what were they?
Mar 20, 2016•23 min
The End Is Where We Start: Re-membering Life - Audio
1) How are you hospitable with your body? 2) What people have taught you most about birth and death?
Mar 13, 2016•28 min
The End is Where We Start: Do Not Go Gentle - Audio
1) What are you fighting against right now? 2) Where might the healthy expression of anger lead to healing in your life?
Mar 06, 2016•25 min
The End is Where We Start: Final Things First - Audio
1) Do you think you think about death too little, too much, or the right amount? 2) How has grief grown your heart?
Feb 28, 2016•25 min
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