In Today’s environment, this program is needed more than ever for our teens to get accurate information on their sexual health, sexuality and what is and how to achieve healthy relationships. More information can be found in our children’s section at www.uusrq.org
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In this third week of our stewardship campaign we'd like to talk about the ACTION taken to support democratic values at UUSRQ and the broader community.

You are the main character in the story of your life, but other people are the main characters of their own lives. And sometimes you can find healing just by playing a supporting role in someone else's experience.
--Timothy Kurek

storytelling is a way to give someone an experience they haven’t had yet, or maybe didn’t even know was possible.
--adrienne maree brown

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
--Maya Angelou

Stories are told as spells for binding the world together.
--John Rouse

Happy New Year! May each day bring new opportunities, exciting adventures, and moments of joy.

People had such a great time at the UU Christmas Day Gathering that they've decided to do one for New Year's Day too!

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'
--Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear.
--Maya Angelou

If I were much wiser, and much more patient, and had much greater concentration, I could sit in silence in my chair, look out my windows at a green tree and the blue sky and know that breathing is a gift; that a breath is sufficient for the moment and that breathing air is breathing God.
Andre Dubus