Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water… Water can flow, or creep, or drip, or crash. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

In a world that often feels like too much- too cruel, too uncertain, too heavy- it can be hard to know how to respond. How do we stay grounded when the world we thought we knew keeps shifting?

Our spiritual theme for the year, Streams of Life, hopes to help us answer that question through the timeless lessons that water can teach us about resilience and perseverance. As Bruce Lee reminds us, water is adaptable. It takes the shape of whatever holds it.  It can be gentle enough to nourish a seed or powerful enough to reshape a coastline. It responds to the world around it—changing form, finding cracks, seeping through, and always continuing on.

As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to live our lives grounded in love and face challenges, injustice, and suffering with gentle kindness and a firm resolve.  Water teaches us to move with purpose, to meet resistance with persistence, and to flow.

Whether it comes as tears, tides, or cleansing rain, there is wisdom to be gained from water. Join us this year as we explore what it means to be like water—together.