Rev. Barbara Dingwall Mills
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UU Church of Weymouth's minister, Barbara, is a long-time member of the church and a resident of Weymouth. She was ordained by the congregation in 2009. In addition to Sunday services, she officiates at weddings, child dedications, memorial services, and funerals for church members and the community-at-large. Barbara also serves the congregation as Administrator.
When she is not preaching at the UU Church of Weymouth, she is available to be a guest speaker at other local churches. She also officiates weddings, child dedications, funerals, and memorial services. More info is available here. email: revbdmills@comcast.net phone: 617-347-6360 |
Minister's Monthly Message
Winter 2023
Hi Friends,
If you are like me, you often berate yourself come the first of every year by telling yourself that this is the year that you will make some great changes…and then you disappoint yourself when those changes are either not feasible or not realistic. I came across a reading the other day that may help us to assuage our consciences and help us to befriend ourselves in 2023.
Why do we start a new year with promises to improve? Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure? I say that the end of the year should be filled with self-congratulations for all that we have survived. I say that a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.
If we are determined to promise that we do more, let us pledge to rest before our bodies force us. Let us pledge to slow down and drink in life as it happens. Let us pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal our flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.
Why should we start another year gifted to us on this planet we call Earth with demands on our already over-strained beings? Perhaps we should be learning to understand that we always have been and always will be imperfect, and that this is where the beauty lies. If we can only find that beauty we may also find new peace.
Let us hope for and plan for a peaceful 2023, not just for ourselves for all who inhabit and share this crazy world with us. Let it be so.
In this life, we are often filled with regret – over those things we did; those things we should have done; those things we wish we had done. It is natural that we feel this way, but it can blind us to a better life. Self-reproach can devastate us and make us feel unloved and unable to love others.
Being connected with others is so important in helping us all feel more human and less imperfect.
Happy New Year!
With love,
Barbara
Rev. Barbara Dingwall Mills
Minister UU Church of Weymouth
Hi Friends,
If you are like me, you often berate yourself come the first of every year by telling yourself that this is the year that you will make some great changes…and then you disappoint yourself when those changes are either not feasible or not realistic. I came across a reading the other day that may help us to assuage our consciences and help us to befriend ourselves in 2023.
Why do we start a new year with promises to improve? Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure? I say that the end of the year should be filled with self-congratulations for all that we have survived. I say that a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.
If we are determined to promise that we do more, let us pledge to rest before our bodies force us. Let us pledge to slow down and drink in life as it happens. Let us pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal our flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.
Why should we start another year gifted to us on this planet we call Earth with demands on our already over-strained beings? Perhaps we should be learning to understand that we always have been and always will be imperfect, and that this is where the beauty lies. If we can only find that beauty we may also find new peace.
Let us hope for and plan for a peaceful 2023, not just for ourselves for all who inhabit and share this crazy world with us. Let it be so.
In this life, we are often filled with regret – over those things we did; those things we should have done; those things we wish we had done. It is natural that we feel this way, but it can blind us to a better life. Self-reproach can devastate us and make us feel unloved and unable to love others.
Being connected with others is so important in helping us all feel more human and less imperfect.
Happy New Year!
With love,
Barbara
Rev. Barbara Dingwall Mills
Minister UU Church of Weymouth
