Lisa Nosal Archives - Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma https://www.uupetaluma.org/speaker/lisa-nosal/ A liberal religious community Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:01:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.uupetaluma.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-uuchalice.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lisa Nosal Archives - Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma https://www.uupetaluma.org/speaker/lisa-nosal/ 32 32 112864875 How Are We Working Toward “Beloved Community” Ourselves? https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/how-are-we-working-toward-beloved-community-ourselves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-are-we-working-toward-beloved-community-ourselves Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:00:41 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279823 Lay Led Service with Lisa Nosal, Worship Associate In June of 2020, a UUP member said, “I am interested in forming a reading group to discuss books related to anti-racism.” From there, five of us started meeting twice a month not only to discuss anti-racism books but also to begin trying to examine “the water … Continue reading How Are We Working Toward “Beloved Community” Ourselves?

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In June of 2020, a UUP member said, “I am interested in forming a reading group to discuss books related to anti-racism.” From there, five of us started meeting twice a month not only to discuss anti-racism books but also to begin trying to examine “the water we swim in” — how our culture has shaped who we are as White people and whether those shapes actually fit with our inner values. Join several of the book club members as we explore the anti-racism work we are doing, how Unitarian Universalist principles guide our work and our goals, and how we are working toward “Beloved Community,” with all of its vulnerability, compassion, and joy.

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]]> 279823 Rose Communion & Letter Writing Ceremony https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/rose-communion-letter-writing-ceremony/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rose-communion-letter-writing-ceremony Tue, 08 Dec 2020 04:37:50 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279710 Lisa Nosal & Karen Mansergh, Worship Associates; Will Johnson, Accompanist What can we learn from the rose? Please join us for UUP’s Rose Communion, where we consider what we might release in order to move forward in our lives with more freedom and ease, and our Letter Writing ritual, where we write letters to our … Continue reading Rose Communion & Letter Writing Ceremony

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What can we learn from the rose? Please join us for UUP’s Rose Communion, where we consider what we might release in order to move forward in our lives with more freedom and ease, and our Letter Writing ritual, where we write letters to our future selves.

Please have with you a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, two envelopes, and a glass or cup partially filled with water.

All are welcome for this annual tradition!

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]]> 279710 Let the Waves Wash Over Me https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/let-the-waves-wash-over-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=let-the-waves-wash-over-me Tue, 22 Sep 2020 03:14:08 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279572 We all feel the waves threatening to pull us under. Waves of grief, waves of anger, waves of despair, waves of uncertainty. What might happen if we acknowledged that we were already under? What might happen if we open ourselves up to surrender? And what freedom — and renewal — might we find if we … Continue reading Let the Waves Wash Over Me

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]]> We all feel the waves threatening to pull us under. Waves of grief, waves of anger, waves of despair, waves of uncertainty. What might happen if we acknowledged that we were already under? What might happen if we open ourselves up to surrender? And what freedom — and renewal — might we find if we do?

Worship Leader: Lisa Nosal
Worship Associate: Karen Mansergh
Musician: Will Johnson
Tech: David Perry & Francis Prévot

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]]> 279572 Bread & Roses https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/bread-roses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bread-roses Wed, 02 Sep 2020 02:32:23 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279538 As the labor movement song (and poem) from the early 1900s goes, “Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.” Today, we honor Labor Day and a world with more equity and economic justice. How does the call of “bread and roses” echo in the present? This morning we uplift … Continue reading Bread & Roses

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]]> As the labor movement song (and poem) from the early 1900s goes, “Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.” Today, we honor Labor Day and a world with more equity and economic justice. How does the call of “bread and roses” echo in the present? This morning we uplift the power of collaboration, beauty, and creativity in the journey for economic justice.

Rev. Dara Olandt, Minister
Lisa Nosal, Worship Associate
Will Johnson, Pianist

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]]> 279538 What Will We Harvest? https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/what-will-we-harvest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-will-we-harvest Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:53:10 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279439 UUP services return! Join us for a live Zoom service, in which we will share with each other our hopes for this year. The beginning of August is Lammas or Lughnasadh on the pagan Wheel of the Year, a time for the first wheat harvest or, here in California, a time when gardens and trees … Continue reading What Will We Harvest?

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]]> UUP services return! Join us for a live Zoom service, in which we will share with each other our hopes for this year. The beginning of August is Lammas or Lughnasadh on the pagan Wheel of the Year, a time for the first wheat harvest or, here in California, a time when gardens and trees offer bounties of zucchini, figs, and melons. Let’s celebrate the seeds we have planted over the past year reaching fruition.

We will send out the link to the viewing gathering in our newsletter. (Sign up for our newsletter, “This Week at UUP,” at https://www.uupetaluma.org/blog/newsletter/.) Because this is a live service focused on (re)connecting with each other, the service will not be archived on the Remote Services page.

Worship Associate: Lisa Nosal
Musician: Will Johnson

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]]> 279439 Learning To Love the World https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/learning-to-love-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-to-love-the-world Sun, 24 May 2020 16:09:30 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279311 This Mother’s Day, let’s reflect on love — love for our children, love for our parents, love for ourselves, love for each other. A tribute to the power of love and to keeping our hearts open. We will send out the link to the viewing gathering via email. (Sign up for our email list.) Afterward, … Continue reading Learning To Love the World

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]]> This Mother’s Day, let’s reflect on love — love for our children, love for our parents, love for ourselves, love for each other. A tribute to the power of love and to keeping our hearts open.

We will send out the link to the viewing gathering via email. (Sign up for our email list.) Afterward, the service will be available on our website.

Worship Leader: Lisa Nosal
Musicians: Will Johnson & BE Lundy

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]]> 279311 Flower Communion https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/flower-communion-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flower-communion-2 Sun, 24 May 2020 15:51:54 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=279303 The Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion was first celebrated in 1923 by Dr. Norbert Čapek, who founded the modern Unitarian movement in Czechoslovakia. He was inspired one day by the riot of spring around him, and he asked church members to each bring in a flower. Gathered together, the flowers remind us, “These flowers are like … Continue reading Flower Communion

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]]> The Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion was first celebrated in 1923 by Dr. Norbert Čapek, who founded the modern Unitarian movement in Czechoslovakia. He was inspired one day by the riot of spring around him, and he asked church members to each bring in a flower. Gathered together, the flowers remind us, “These flowers are like ourselves. Different colors and different shapes, and different sizes, each needing different kinds of care—but each beautiful, each important and special, in its own way.”

In the spirit of our living tradition, UUP has created an internet-based version of the ritual for this year’s ceremony. Please join us in exploring, “What do I bring across the threshold into UUP? What do I take with me from UUP back across the threshold into my daily life?”

If you can, please have two flowers in front you for the ceremony. If you don’t have actual flowers available, then drawings or pictures or other representations will be fine, or you can create a flower in your mind. We will also be showing flowers on the screen, submitted by UUP members, and you can use those for inspiration and ritual, too.

We will send out the link to the viewing gathering via email. (Sign up for our email list.) Afterward, the service will be available on our website.

Worship Leader: Lisa Nosal
Musicians: Will Johnson & BE Lundy
Video Editor: Andrew Richardson




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]]> 279303 In the Shelter of Each Other https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/in-the-shelter-of-each-other/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-shelter-of-each-other Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:04:03 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=278797 We come together in community to share, mourn, celebrate, and play. How do we cultivate community as part of our spiritual practices? How do we find and share the awe in each other and in our relationships themselves? Come join us as we explore what it might mean to be a community of awe. Worship … Continue reading In the Shelter of Each Other

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]]> We come together in community to share, mourn, celebrate, and play. How do we cultivate community as part of our spiritual practices? How do we find and share the awe in each other and in our relationships themselves? Come join us as we explore what it might mean to be a community of awe.

Worship Associate: Jennifer Martin
Accompanist: Will Johnson

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]]> 278797 Songs for the Journey: Summer Hymn Sing https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/songs-for-the-journey-summer-hymn-sing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=songs-for-the-journey-summer-hymn-sing Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:42:50 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=256774 Come join Worship Associates Nancy Blake and  Lisa Nosal, along with  musician Will Johnson for a music-filled service to fuel and feed us for the important work of social justice. We sing to mend our brokenness (July worship theme of the month) and strengthen our commitment to action by lifting up the work of those who … Continue reading Songs for the Journey: Summer Hymn Sing

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]]> Come join Worship Associates Nancy Blake and  Lisa Nosal, along with  musician Will Johnson for a music-filled service to fuel and feed us for the important work of social justice. We sing to mend our brokenness (July worship theme of the month) and strengthen our commitment to action by lifting up the work of those who have traveled before us. We sing to walk in the path of love and freedom. 

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]]> 256774 This I Believe https://www.uupetaluma.org/services/this-i-believe-12/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-i-believe-12 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:33:10 +0000 https://www.uupetaluma.org/?post_type=uu_services&p=177521 Another in our beloved series of services in which we hear from members of our congregation who share their spiritual journeys. Stay tuned for speaker names!Worship Leaders: Lara Abel and Lisa NosalAccompanist: Will Johnson

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]]> Another in our beloved series of services in which we hear from members of our congregation who share their spiritual journeys. Stay tuned for speaker names!
Worship Leaders: Lara Abel and Lisa Nosal
Accompanist: Will Johnson

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