One 90 minute service beginning at 10:30 am.

A Unity tradition, our annual Burning Bowl and White Stone Ceremony is your opportunity to release the past and embrace the future. Symbolically release old unwanted ways of being by giving them to the sacred fire. Receive a White Stone that helps you discover your intention for the New Year. What will you release? What Word will you receive?

This ceremony models the Unity practices of Releasing and Affirming.

Release

During the service you are invited to write down on a piece of colored paper anything that you no longer want to carry around. Ask yourself how you can make space in your life for more good by identifying what no longer serves you. Then take your paper outside to our courtyard and burn it in the sacred fire!

Affirm

Upon re-entering the Sanctuary, receive a white stone and a sharpie from the altar. Spend time in stillness and allow the Word you are here to express in 2020 to reveal Itself. This is more about setting an intention than making a resolution. You are discovering a way of Being rather than setting a goal. Write your Word on your White Stone and carry it with you as a reminder of your intention.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 2:17