We have survived the holidays and head into a new year, perhaps with more trepidation than usual for some of us. How can we let the light of the holidays last into the new year and center love?

Rev. Maddie Sifantus retired as the full time ten year settled minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula, California where she is now Minister Emerita and enjoying doing guest preaching while she decides what’s next. Before Santa Paula, she served two small formerly Universalist congregations in Massachusetts, Wakefield and Milford. She was originally ordained by the First Parish in Wayland in 2002 as a community minister. She served as First Parish’s Affiliate Community Minister until she moved to Santa Paula in 2015. She is the Founder and Director/Emerita of the senior citizen chorus she directed for 20 years, the Golden Tones, which was what sent her to seminary.