You are invited to the in-person Worship Service on August 27 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 or Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
You can also watch Sunday services at your convenience by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click YouTube or Facebook. Each Sunday worship will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Ordinary Time
Sunday, August 27, 2023, 10 am
This Sunday is Lego Sunday!
First, children will be in worship. Following the Special Music,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Nursery Room.
Children’s Time “The Three Little Pigs” Pastor John
Choir Anthem Never In A Million Years Words & Music by John B. Peterson
Message Breath Work: Rev. John Song
Part 5) “Healing Trauma”
Traumatic experiences require us to disconnect from our overwhelmed selves. We are learning that trauma-related fragmentation is a survival response. Our brains fight to keep the horror at a distance and preserve some sense of OK-ness.
Splitting off experiences of humiliation, abandonment, and violation helps us survive and adapt in the wake of trauma. Unfortunately, this process of sectioning off parts of ourselves backfires later in life. It usually results in long-term self-rejection, self-neglect, or even self-hatred.
Through Breath Work exercise, we will work through disowned parts of ourselves and bring them home to ourselves. We discover that what we have been seeking our entire lives has always been here because what we have been seeking is to BE who we truly are, our whole selves. When that happens we begin to have a radically different experience of love, aliveness, wholeness, connection, and deep inner peace.
That which haunts us will find a way out.
The wound will not heal unless given witness.
The shadow that follows us is the way in!
~ Rumi, 1207-1273
“That which you do not transform, you will transmit.”
~ Richard Rohr
When we dare to allow a memory,
We invite a cutoff piece of life and self itself
To come back into view,
And in the process,
A gaping sore may be sutured
By the simple threads of memory.
~ Thomas Moore from his book The Original Self
“What you can feel, you can heal.”
~ John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
~ Pema Chodron
“If you can become aware of early trauma,
you can gain agency so that illnesses need not determine your fate.”
~ Gabor Maté, MD
“By opening to darkness, we’re opening to light.”
~ Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
