'SOLSTICE CELEBRATION' - Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar

The message was delivered on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar, Senior Minister. Description: What happens when you've been walking through the valley of shadow for so long that you can only see far enough to place one foot in front of the other? On the darkest day of the year, discover why ancient peoples understood darkness not as emptiness, but as the fertile dark—a womb leading to new life, where all beginnings take root before emerging into light. When an 85-year-old widower faced an agonizing medical decision, something extraordinary happened in his living room that changed everything about how he understood his life's value. Can the natural cycles spinning around us—the earth, the atoms, even the very particles of existence—teach us that no descent is permanent, and that hope returns as surely as tomorrow's sunrise?

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'SOLSTICE CELEBRATION' - Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar is an episode from All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK by All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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This episode was published on Dec 22, 2025.

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