Topic: Service Notes & Scripts

Sometimes the Unitarian Universalist Community of Casper’s lay led service leaders generously choose to publish the scripts of their services on our website. Take a look below and if these services inspire you, please come visit us on a Sunday. Meet the service leaders, get involved, and find more inspiration.

Online Sunday Service-Books With Impact

The UU congregations in Laramie and Casper are collaborating on Sunday services. UU Laramie’s Barbara Bogart led this service, designed as an interactive program where participants will share the titles of books that have had an impact on them.

More than 30 participants shared their … read more.

Special Online Saturday Earth Centered Service: Garden of the Dancing Bee

Live broadcast and accompanying self-guided ritual practice of ceremonial flower planting for use in home and community gardens. Planting flowers provides nourishment for bees and other pollinators for their vital work in nature. Ritual will include original music recordings, meditation and visualization practices and a mantra invocation of Bhramari, a Vedic Goddess associated with bees. Join us in Zoom room 459 187 0381. For security purposes, Zoom events now require a password. Click on “Attend an Online Service” on the main menu for more information.

Click on the service title above for what you can do before the ritual, and a link to the Self-Guided Ritual.

Six Impossible Things to Believe Before Brunch

An orthopedic surgeon named Jeremy Statton has the following written on his coffee cup.

He says it does more to get him going in the morning than the coffee he drinks out of it.

“There’s no use trying,” said Alice: “one can’t believe impossible things.”  “I dare say you haven’t … read more.

Annual Flower Communion

Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Capek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Flower Communion is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. In this ceremony, everyone in the congregation brings (or is given) a flower. Each person places a flower on the altar or in a shared vase. The congregation blesses the flowers, and they’re redistributed so that each person brings home a different flower than the one they brought. Click on the link for the full text of the service.

Helpful Hopes, Unhelpful Expectations

The inspiration for my presentation today on “Healthy Hopes, Unhealthy Expectations,” came from recent reflections upon my past and current life. I have often revisited difficult decisions I made during my youth and young adulthood, sometimes wishing I would have chosen differently. Although fortunately not … read more.