Water Ceremony 2025

This Sunday we share a re-imagined and reinvigorated Water Ceremony ritual for all ages. This tradition was born from UU women 45 years ago who got tired of being told how to worship and decided to create their own ceremony, and this year we take up their mantle as we reinvent this piece of our living tradition in our own way. We explore what it means to be dammed up and what it feels like when those dams finally break, practicing the radical act of letting barriers come down.

We'll look at the Klamath River, where the largest dam removal in U.S. history just happened. After a century of being blocked, salmon are swimming home. The river remembers.

We're made of that same stubborn, remembering water, and its gifts are also ours:

The wildness of the water is a current alive in within you, within us, flowing in a way that needs no permission, no apologies, no restraint.

The power of the water is ours, together - a force within us like a river that's been gathering behind a dam of lies for decades, finally free to carve new channels through everything that tries to contain us.

Wild belonging, as innate as the belonging of a river in its bed of stone and soil, is ours to claim when we only remember that we’ve always been part of this current.