{"id":8147,"date":"2024-08-19T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:53:37","slug":"this-year-at-wellsprings-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/this-year-at-wellsprings-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year, At WellSprings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re busy planning for the year ahead at WellSprings! Our Fall message series begins in September \u2013 but you can scroll down to get a taste of the conversations we\u2019ll be having (on Sunday mornings, in YouthSpirit, in our small groups, etc.) all throughout the year\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-720x720.png 720w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MessageThemes-2024-5-cover-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Breathing Together&nbsp;<\/strong><em>our Fall Message Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The results are in, and living through history is exhausting. <\/strong>We feel overwhelmed by what\u2019s happening in the big world beyond us, and also by the busy pace of the small world around us. Yet here we are, living \u2013 and breathing \u2013 through it. This Fall, let\u2019s slow down to listen for that still, small voice, within us and beyond us. We\u2019ll breathe together \u2013 reminding each other that we are part of a much bigger story, and noticing all the ways we are held, supported, and guided through this life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lift My Eyes&nbsp;<\/strong><em>our Holiday Message Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All through human history \u2013 in every culture and place, during the hardest times imaginable \u2013 people have dared to hope. Spiritual traditions both ancient and modern give us an idea of help that comes from \u201cthe hills\u201d \u2013 from somewhere beyond us. Whether we lift our eyes up, down, or around to each other, <strong>we keep on the lookout for signs of something better.<\/strong> Join us this holiday season as we call on these resources for hope, from all kinds of places outside of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Expect 2025&nbsp;<\/strong><em>our Winter Message Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might\u2019ve heard about \u201cProject 2025\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s a big, detailed plan that some of our national leaders want to make real, in the new year to come. But closer to home we know that our path is not predetermined, because we will create it together. We all yearn for wholeness in the communities that surround us \u2013 and it\u2019s frightening to witness divisions that can make that wholeness seem impossible. <strong>No matter what our leaders do, we can make our own plans.<\/strong> We can greet the year ahead with faithful expectation: that all our different threads can be woven together, into whole cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saving &amp; Savoring&nbsp;<\/strong><em>our Spring Message Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author E. B. White once said that he wakes up every morning \u201ctorn between the desire to save the world and the desire to savor the world\u2026 which makes it hard to plan the day.\u201d We know the feeling. Pulled in every direction, stretched too thin \u2013 and somehow stuck standing still, as a result. But <strong>maybe the everyday practices of \u201csaving\u201d and \u201csavoring\u201d \u2013 of nurturing, protecting, and loving \u2013 are not so different from each other. <\/strong>Perhaps we can move forward by aligning our instincts, to save and to savor \u2013 pouring more of our energy into the people and places we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Time Machine&nbsp;<\/strong><em>our May Message Series<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time is universal: we\u2019re born, we die, and we get older in between. Yet time also makes something of us \u2013 something special and particular. <strong>The times in which we live, our stage of life, the ways we spend our time\u2026 all of it works like a machine, to make us who we are.<\/strong> In our all-ages series this May, we\u2019ll explore how things change over time \u2013 what goes and what stays, what dies and what endures \u2013 by listening to the insights and wisdom that every generation has to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re busy planning for the year ahead at WellSprings! Our Fall message series begins in September \u2013 but you can scroll down to get a taste of the conversations we\u2019ll be having (on Sunday mornings, in YouthSpirit, in our small groups, etc.) all throughout the year\u2026 Breathing Together&nbsp;our Fall Message Series The results are in, and living through history is exhausting. 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