"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.” --Marc Chagall?

Huntsville UU Services
Services are held on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month at 10:30 a.m. in the Laura Chapel of Huntsville Memorial Hospital. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, call 295-3170.

New Time for Coffee: Please come at 10:00 for coffee and conversation before the service. Coffee will not be served after the service. Post-service conversation will continue over lunch.

Sun. September 9: Nelson Thompson will be speaking on the topic of Life Lessons from the Game of Poker. He writes, "My father was a professional gambler for many years, long before I was born. When pressed to teach important lessons to his three sons, often moral lessons, he would often use the game of poker as the source of his wisdom. Indeed, my father was not the first to consider poker as a metaphor for Life itself. This viewpoint was espoused by none other than Mark Twain. I share a dozen or so vital lessons for living a Good Life -- lessons derived from his experiences, and my experiences, with the game of poker."

Nelson Thompson was born in Russellville, Alabama, which is (in his words) "a small but forward-looking country town in the NW corner of the state." He survived a near-fatal bout of Polio when he was five years old and he credits his parents, Johnny and Alice Thompson, not only for his survival, but also for raising him to be able to live and compete in an able-bodied world. He attended the University of Alabama and Mississippi State University, where he obtained degrees in Physics and Computer Science. He has lived and worked in the Johnson Space Center area south of Houston ever since 1980 and he is married to Gwendolyn Thompson, with whom he shares a house with three cats: Meowski, Buddy and Harley.

A group of members from the Thompson's church will be coming to hear his talk. We plan to go out to lunch with them after the service.

Sun. September 23: Rev. Tom Capo’s sermon will be “Walking like a Pilgrim.” During this sermon he asks us to consider the following issues: "What is it to walk a spiritual path? What is it to live life with the understanding that our lives need to be considered from a larger perspective than our own personal needs and feelings? Each of us may have a very different understanding of what it means to walk like a pilgrim, to see life as a pilgrimage, a sacred journey. Are we on a journey to encounter the unknown? Are we looking for the experience of coming home or feeling more connected with creation? What do we share as spiritual pilgrims?"