Who Blesses Whom? | Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk | All Souls Unitarian Church

You don't have to be a spiritual person to have a sacred experience. You just have to be the kind of person who feeds the horses even when you don't want to — because the holy stuff doesn't show up for people waiting around for it. It shows up for people doing the unglamorous, thankless work of taking care of something else, on a morning they'd rather have skipped. QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH: - What's the unglamorous, thankless thing you keep showing up for anyway? - Have you ever stumbled into something sacred in the middle of an ordinary chore? - Can you hold both the tenderness and the cruelty of nature as equally true? - Who — or what — are you responsible for, whether you feel like it that day or not? CHAPTERS: 0:00 Opening Song 0:53 Growing Up With Animals 1:51 A Morning Fog 2:57 The Horses Are Missing 3:52 A Third Horse Emerges 4:44 Who Blessed Whom 5:19 Animals in Every Culture 6:04 Breath and Spirit 7:25 The Goldfish in the Bowl 8:58 Nature's Tooth and Claw 10:19 Beauty Despite the Cruelty 11:09 Showing Up Every Day 12:57 What Pets Teach Us 13:41 You Don't Need a Pet 14:55 Why We Bless 16:06 Closing Blessing 16:50 Closing Song This message, "Who Blesses Whom?," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. SUBSCRIBE TO WATCH OTHER VIDEOS: @allsoulsunitarian GIVE A DONATION TO HELP US SPREAD THIS LOVE BEYOND BELIEF: https://www.allsoulschurch.org/GIVE or text AllSoulsTulsa to 73256 LET'S CONNECT: -Facebook: /allsoulstulsa -Instagram: /allsoulstulsa -All Souls Church Website: https://www.allsoulschurch.org #AllSoulsTulsa #AllSoulsUnitarianChurch #LoveBeyondBelief #BlessingOfTheAnimals #Animals