Sunday Soul Circle - Canceled
2026-05-17 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82882360638?pwd=[REDACTED]
Due to Rev. Wendy’s schedule, this week’s Soul Circle is canceled. See you next week!
Sanctuary UCC Sunday Spiritual Circle – for prayer, care, reflection, and connection.

Sunday Soul Circle: Language of the Heart
2026-05-24 08:30 - 09:30
At Pentecost, the Spirit arrives not as a polished speech, a perfect plan, or a tidy explanation, but as wind, fire, and the sudden miracle of being understood. People from many places, carrying many languages, gather in bewilderment and wonder because something holy is happening: each one hears the good news in the language of their own heart.
In recovery spaces, “the language of the heart” is the shared language of experience: the sayings, stories, wounds, wisdom, honesty, and hope that help people recognize one another across difference. A miracle, some would say.
Pentecost is just such a miracle. The Spirit does not erase what makes us particular. She makes real communion possible without requiring sameness. This Sunday in Soul Circle, we’ll enter the Pentecost story.
Together, we’ll wonder where we are longing to be understood, what heart-language we carry, and how the Spirit might be teaching us to hear one another more deeply.
with love, Rev. Wendy
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Sunday Soul Circle: The Grace of Greening
2026-05-31 08:30 - 09:30
After Pentecost, the church enters a long stretch of the year called Ordinary Time. It can sound plain, almost forgettable, as if nothing much is happening between the flame of Pentecost and the waiting of Advent. But Ordinary Time is not empty time. It is growing time. It is the green season, when the Spirit that arrived as wind and fire begins the slower work of taking root in us.
This week’s Soul Circle will reflect on the power of the seed growing secretly: scattered into the soil, hidden from view, becoming life “we do not know how.” And, attend to the blessing of holy things that grow slowly, deeply, and often unseen before they ever come into bloom.
Together, we will make space to wonder: What is quietly greening in us? What belief is becoming practice, patience, courage, mercy, or joy? Where is Grace doing its underground work? Gather with us for the gentle companionship of others in this long green season of becoming.
with love, Rev. Wendy
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Sunday Soul Circle: The Blessing That Keeps Walking
2026-06-07 08:30 - 09:30
This week in Soul Circle, we will sit with the story of Abram and Sarai in Genesis 12:1–9, standing at the edge of everything familiar. God says, “Go,” but does not hand them a map. They leave land, kin, household, history, and the only life they have known, carrying nothing certain except a promise: “I will show you.”
As Sanctuary turns toward the closing of 154 years of mission and ministry, this text meets us with tenderness and truth. It does not ask us to pretend that leaving is easy. It does not rush us past grief. Instead, it invites us to wonder what it means to leave faithfully, to remember without clinging, and to trust that the blessing God has poured through this community is not ending, but being carried forward in us.
Together, we will make space for grief, gratitude, memory, and blessing. We will ask what we are being invited to release, what we are being asked to carry, and how God may still be saying to us, even now: I will show you. Come as you are, with whatever you are holding, and join this small circle of love and care as we listen for the blessing that keeps walking.
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Sunday Soul Circle: Let Go and Let God
2026-06-14 08:30 - 09:30
This Sunday in Soul Circle, we will practice the holy and human work of surrender. Not surrender as defeat. Not surrender as silence. Not surrender as giving up our voice, our wisdom, or our agency. But surrender as release: the grace of loosening our grip on what we cannot control, what we no longer need to carry, and what may be keeping us from the deeper freedom of God.
We will use Judith Orloff’s The Power of Surrender cards as a doorway into reflection and discernment. You are invited to bring a real question to the circle: What am I ready to surrender? What habit, fear, burden, or old story am I being invited to release? Where am I trying to control what I need to entrust to God? With that question held gently, we will draw a card and listen for what rises: resonance, resistance, clarity, discomfort, surprise, or grace.
Psalm 46 invites us into the stillness where surrender becomes possible: “Be still, and know that I am God.” In that stillness, we remember that letting go does not mean falling apart. It may mean letting ourselves be held. Come with a question, a burden, a curiosity, or simply an open heart. Together, we will listen for the invitation to surrender, to loosen the grip, and to let go and let God.
Sanctuary UCC Sunday Spiritual Circle – for prayer, care, reflection, and connection.
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