Wellsprings Congregation

Christmas Eve, 7:00 PM Service.

Christmas Eve Service at 4:30 pm: Geared to families with elementary-age children.

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."

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

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?

"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

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."

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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."

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?

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.

In what places, communities, or relationships might you bring out more of the things that are close to your heart?

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?

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.

Our lives are always in formation, remember to "be the clay, not the pottery."

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.

How do you keep yourself open and awake instead of trying to beat vulnerability to the punch?

Can we have too much of a good thing? What are the blessings of abundance, even over-abundance?

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?

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”?