The Rev. Suzelle Lynch

I want to tell you something funny about trying to write about Wisdom. (I've been trying to do just that because "A People of Wisdom" is our March Soul Matters theme!) Here’s what I’ve discovered… In trying to write about [...]

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make [...]

A message from Rev. Suzelle Lynch That’s our theme for this month. It’s the quality of being honest and morally upright – it has to do with acting in accordance with our values.  It has to do with the way [...]

Do you remember when “Awesome!” entered the common vernacular? Our friend the internet says that this use of “awesome” originated in 1960s surfer slang, and became popular due to films like the 1982 Hollywood hit “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” [...]

A message from Rev. Suzelle Lynch I fell down the other day. I fell right down on the sidewalk after crossing the street. "Ouch!" I exclaimed as my knees hit the cement. I rolled over onto my back, meeting the [...]

Belonging is a hunger. It’s a hunger to be invited in, to be part of the group, to be at home and important in a community. We’ve all felt it, this longing to be included. No one likes being shut [...]

Dear Ones — September brings the start of our new "church year." Just like the beginning of school for the younger set, we gear up here at UU Church West on Ingathering Sunday on September 8th. Religious education classes for [...]

Dear UUCW Members and Friends, I’ll be back home not long after you receive this issue of our West Wind (or read this column in our awesome eNews), but I’m writing it from a lovely cottage on the Oregon coast [...]

A Message from Rev. Suzelle  Here at UUCW for the month of May, our Soul Matters theme is curiosity. Curiosity, that inner drive to know, and to know more — our “inner questioner” who always wants to know WHY — [...]

A Message from Rev. Suzelle  A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to hear the wisdom of an extraordinary Chicago woman named Rasheeda Graham-Washington. She’s a licensed minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and she’s also the force [...]

FROM REV. SUZELLE: The UU World Magazine is a benefit of being a member of UUCW, and it comes from our faith's central office in Boston several times a year. The most recent issue featured an article called, "After L,G, [...]

A Message from Rev. Suzelle  February is Black History Month. It’s an observance with deep roots, whose precursor was created in 1926 in the United States when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life [...]

A Message from Rev. Suzelle The New Year often feels like a time of possibility. A turn of the calendar from one month to the next and suddenly there's a blank slate, a clean page, 365 fresh, new days awaiting [...]