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So often it’s not clear what home is or if it’s a thing we can find our way back to. But for many of us it’s worth forging a place out of the complicated bits of our lives where we can rest, take off our actual and metaphorical shoes, touch roots and belong. For Rev. Elizabeth, that place is often cooking random bits of food into dinner or inventing new ways of making pancakes when out of milk and eggs. Home sometimes is banana pancakes.

These are stormy times for many of us as we let go of 2022 and enter 2023. What are the relationships with self and spirit that we can cultivate to weather the big storms in our own lives and the life of the world? What are the safe harbors we can create in our spiritual lives and in our communities to keep us anchored? Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen preaches.

There is so much going on in the big and little picture of our lives. We do not know how it all turns out. Many things are very hard and many things are possible. We’ll explore how love can be the gravity that guides us as we let go of certainty and ride the waves of life as it emerges.

Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is a Midwesterner at heart, lives in Massachusetts and is learning all the time about liberation, solidarity, courage, and cowardice. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a Migrant Justice Organizer with Community Justice Exchange and previously did faith-based justice work and youth organizing. She is passionate about progressive organizing in the Vietnamese American community, building power across prison walls and feeding people.