Category: Personal & Spiritual Development
Kimberlee’s Contemplations
This past month has been a whirlwind of hope and heartbreak. Somehow, we continue moving through the rhythms of our… More >
Embodying Resilience
Our February theme, Embodying Resilience, names that resilience lives in the body. While our thoughts route the signals of stress… More >
Practicing Resistance
These early days of 2026 are here. How are you today? How were your holidays/HOLYDays over the last many weeks?… More >
Kimberlee’s Contemplations
The holiday season is still echoing all around us, and I find myself reflecting on the complicated relationship so many… More >
Practicing Resistance
Our January theme is “Practicing Resistance,” which we’ve had arguably too much opportunity to do lately. We will have another… More >
Choosing Hope
December 2025 is HERE! It is sometime said, time goes by so fast. However, for me, and in this political,… More >
Choosing Hope
Dear First Church Members and Friends, Every day, the skies are getting darker, earlier. Our human bodies respond to the… More >
The Power of Silence Together
In our Sunday service September 27, James Crews read us his poem “How to Listen,” which included these lines: “Even… More >
A Little about UU Wellspring
As part of Adult Faith Formation, we have offered UU Wellspring programs since the 2021-2022 church year. The first level… More >
Complicated Gratitude
As I sit on my comfortable sofa, literally wrapped in a blanket to meet the morning’s fall chill, I start… More >
Gratitude as Spiritual Practice
Sometimes gratitude can sound like a platitude, a polite reflex rather than a felt response. We hear or read “thank… More >
Nurturing Gratitude
Dear First Church, Nurturing Gratitude strengthens our connection to what we love in this world. It builds the pathway between… More >
Pastoral Care Providers, Part of Something Larger
Sometimes a little rain falls in our lives—and sometimes, it’s a downpour. During the storms that hit Milwaukee on August… More >
Attention Readers!
Our First Church Book Discussion Group is one of the longest-running, continuous activities at First Church and it has changed… More >
Cultivating Compassion: Balancing Presence and Action
This year’s Ingathering has come and gone. Wow!! Does this church know how to do Ingathering or what? Did you… More >
A Legacy of Compassion
Looking at a piece of newspaper I was employing for utility rather than edification, I saw a familiar face from… More >