Category: Rev. Addae Kraba

  • Everyday Joys

    It is the everyday aspects of our lives that bring us the most joy, even if at first it may seem natural to expect our feelings of happiness to come from the larger events in our lives. By noticing how small things can fill our days with delight, we are more likely to experience the…

  • Value Your Inner Knowing

         We will always encounter individuals throughout our lives who presume to know what is best for us. However, the insights they offer cannot compare with the powers of awareness and discernment that already exist within us. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are blessed from birth with wisdom that cannot be learned or…

  • Making Meaning

    When we begin to bring consciousness to what we are making things mean, we may be surprised at the messages we have been sending ourselves over the years. The meaning we assign to our experiences, whether positive or negative, is a very powerful factor in determining the quality of our lives. What we imagine events…

  • Purpose

    Purpose gives our life meaning, but most humans are not consciously born knowing what their purpose is. Most living things belong to a particular soul group and are born knowing their purpose in life. An animal will spend its day foraging for food, taking care of itself and its young, and creating a home. No…

  • Judging Others

    Though it is human to evaluate people we encounter based on first impressions, our judgments are frequently incomplete, because the conclusions we come to are affected by our own preconceptions.  For example, poverty can be seen as a signifier of uneducated or laziness and wealth can seem like proof that an individual is ruthless or…

  • The installation of Reverend Addae Ama Kraba on October 22, 2023
  • Willing to Be Willing

    There may be times when we find ourselves struggling or even fighting with our emotions and thoughts, feeling that something should be done in a particular way or perhaps not at all. But it’s the way we are looking at the experience that is causing the turmoil within us, because life is not this way.…

  • Allowing Ourselves to Receive

    Giving and receiving are part of the same cycle, and we each give and receive in our own ways. But when we try to be too controlling on either side of the cycle, we can lose our balance. If what we gave was easy for us to give, we may feel that we don’t deserve…

  • Soul Work

    The spiritual practice of welcome should be integral to any faith community. It certainly is a very important one to our Unitarian Universalist faith. In the 1980s and 90s, the word “welcoming” became a code word for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, so the Unitarian Universalist Association launched a Welcoming Congregation Program to help us…