Renewal
Questions
In our culture and secular lives, the questions we ask about renewal focus mainly on health.(Are you drinking enough water? Are you getting enough sleep?”) and work/life balance(Are you making enough time for family, play and rest?).Unitarian Universalism also asks renewal questions like these:Are you sure it’s your body that’s tired, or could it be your soul?What if “time away” isn’t about restoring ourselves in order to return to our work, butinstead about making space to decide if it’s time to reconfigure ourselves and re-imaginewhat our true “work” is?Is it time to renew your responsibility to those who will come after you?Is it time to renew your commitment to carry on the work of those who came before us?What if you saw your daily living and loving as an opportunity (even a calling) to renewothers’ faith in humanity?Could it be that continual self-improvement is not the path to renewal but insteadcompassionate acceptance of who you already are, warts and all?What if renewing our common future isn’t just about moving forward, but instead requiresa return to an honest telling of the past?Let’s renew and refresh the renewal questions we ask.Let’s remind ourselves that, indeed, we change our lives by changing the questions we ask.