Embracing the Silly & Sacred with Celia Farran

Описание: What if play is not a distraction from spiritual life, but a doorway into it?
Musician Celia Farran invites us to embrace joy, laughter, and creativity as sacred practices that keep us connected and alive.

In “Embracing the Silly and the Sacred,” musician and UU troubadour Celia Farran joins the Unitarian Universalist Church in Livermore for a joyful, music-filled service that celebrates play as a spiritual practice. Blending humor, storytelling, audience participation, and song, Celia reminds us that joy, curiosity, and laughter are not frivolous, but deeply sacred.

Drawing on wisdom from thinkers like Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and George Bernard Shaw, this service explores how play opens the imagination, nourishes the soul, and helps us stay present to the moment. Through playful songs about travel, prayer, overthinking, and even laundry, we are invited to loosen our grip on perfection and rediscover delight in everyday life.

Celia weaves together the silly and the sacred, showing how music, play, and celebration can help us reconnect with our sources of meaning, resilience, and joy. Whether singing along, laughing together, or simply listening, this service offers a reminder that spiritual growth does not always come through seriousness. Sometimes it comes through play.

This service is an invitation to:
-Reclaim joy as a spiritual resource
-Practice play in everyday tasks
-Celebrate creativity, curiosity, and connection
-Remember that the opposite of play is not work, but disconnection

May we continue to find holiness in laughter, meaning in music, and grace in the joyful mess of being human.

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