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How much of our lives do we spend wishing we had chosen differently? We replay old decisions, imagine alternate paths, and wonder, “What if I had only done things differently?” But as Pastor Joshua’s wise daughter puts it: “The choice that I make is the choice that I make.” What might happen if, instead of regretting the choices we've made, we learned to accept them and then ask what we can do with where we are now?

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This Sunday marks a number of sacred occasions. We will have our annual Animal Blessing ritual. It is also National Coming Out Day and it is the day before Indigenous People's Day. It will also be the first full worship service that Pastor Joshua will be incorporating the new Woven Faith theme from the UUA. That theme for October is "Living the Questions" and this week it asks us to think about Brokenness, Disaster, Evil, Pain, and Worry. That's a lot of tough topics so Pastor Joshua will weave in our various rituals into finding the sacred in the question, "Why is there evil in the world?"

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It can be remarkably difficult to admit when we have caused harm. Individuals do it. Communities do it. Nations do it.

Sometimes, however, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, we insist that we are innocent.

Real reconciliation begins with something deceptively simple: acknowledging what we have done. As Jews observe Yom Kippur, a day devoted to atonement and seeking forgiveness, Pastor Joshua asks: What if we all made a regular practice of owning our mistakes? Could the world be different?

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