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Day 23: Start By Loving Yourself

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Today is Day 23 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to start the journey of sharing the love by loving yourself first. If you have events planned for National Standing on the Side of Love Day (Thursday, Feb. 14th) or Share the Love Sunday (Sunday, Feb. 17th) be sure to add it to our map and use our media resources to get the word out in your community. Click here for additonal resources, family actions, and more! Click here to sign up for the daily Thirty Days of Love emails.

Our Thirty Days of Love campaign is equal parts spiritual journey and action for social justice.

Today marks the beginning of the last week of our Thirty Days of Love Campaign, and this week’s theme is “Share the Love.” What better place to start than with yourself? How can we stand on the side of love with others, if we aren’t first kind and loving to ourselves?

Every day, I feel humbled by my opportunity to lead a campaign grounded in love and faith. It offers me the opportunity to check in with myself, to see how I can live a life that is more just, more loving. And yet, sometimes I struggle. I find myself frustrated when I don’t live up to my own artificially imposed standards, when I fail or make mistakes. And so I return to a quiet place in my soul, and create the space for forgiveness, acceptance, and love. For me, yoga and fellowship with others help me find that space. What helps you be more kind to yourself?

Perhaps you too will benefit from a reminder that we need to love ourselves first. I invite you to be especially kind to your own soul today, to be better able to share the love with others throughout this week.

And what a week it will be! On Thursday, we will once again re-imagine Valentine’s Day as a social justice holiday, our 4th Annual National Standing on the Side of Love Day and, next Sunday we will celebrate Share the Love Sunday! If your congregation is planning an event, make sure you add it to our map and use our media resources to get the word out in your community. You can also worship online with us through the Church of the Larger Fellowship–click here to find out how.

If you are not part of a congregation or belong to a congregation that’s not participating, there are other ways that you or your family can participate in National Standing on the Side of Love Day. Click here to learn more.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me.

Standing on the side of love with you,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

PS: It’s not too late to take a Share the Love Sunday collection to support our work. If this Sunday doesn’t work for you, Share the Love Sunday can happen any time throughout the year. Click here for more info!

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Day 7: Help Make Us “Sizzle”

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Today is Day 7 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to join our Facebook chat today at 4pm ET/1pm PT. Click here for more resources, family actions, and more! Click here to sign up for the daily Thirty Days of Love emails.

I hope you are as excited as I am about the first week of our Thirty Days of Love–what a journey it has already been! I have been so moved to read the words of our partners, from Michelle Alexander encouraging us to start a conversation on mass incarceration, to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe, to hearing from Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter. Wow.

Now, we want to hear from you! Join our chat on Facebook today at 4pm ET/1pm PT and tell us what you envision for the future of our campaign.

We want to talk about how we can continue to not only make our work as loving as possible, but also how to give it some pizazz, some spice. Never done a Facebook chat before? No worries–simply visit our Facebook page at the appropriate time and add a comment to our post introduing the chat.

Here at the Standing on the Side of Love Campaign HQ, we shorten our really fantastic (but long) name down to SSL, or the first letters of the prominent words of the campaign. The fun part? We pronounce SSL as “sizzle” and it is a reminder to us to keep what we do fun, and fresh, and well, sizzling! We’ll share these and other fun facts during our chat, so join us today.

If you can’t join the chat, please feel free to email us at love@uua.org with questions in advance and we can share our responses both during the chat, and directly to you.

Let’s sizzle together,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

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Day 1: Kicking Off Our Spiritual Journey for Social Justice

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Today is Day 1 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to let your friends & family know about your commitment to the Thirty Days by posting about it on social media. Click here for more resources, family actions, and more! Click here to sign up for the daily Thirty Days of Love emails.


We are so thrilled to launch our second annual Thirty Days of Love campaign today! We have lined up tons of actions that we know you will be excited about. This first week we will “Honor Legacy,” and renew our commitments to sustained action and service, beginning with our commemoration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. During this period, we will lift up the change-makers who paved the trail ahead of us and explore how we can continue their legacy by standing on the side of love in our communities and our congregations.

We will continue the Thirty Days of Love in our second and third weeks with the themes of “Think Interfaith” and “Move Beyond Borders.” During this time, we will hear from messengers of all walks of life, who will encourage us to foster partnerships with people from different backgrounds than our own.

We call the Thirty Days of Love a spiritual journey for social justice because striving to make the world a better place requires centering ourselves, connecting with others, and examining where we have been and would like to go. During our last week, we will “Share the Love,” first by continuing to re-imagine Valentine’s Day as our National Standing on the Side of Love Day and later by celebrating “Share the Love Sunday,” when we invite congregations to commemorate this journey together and share the love that speaks to our core values.

Today, help us spread the word about this campaign by posting about it on social media and changing your profile picture to the Standing on the Side of Love heart logo.

I look forward to standing on the side of love with you for the next 30 days, and beyond!

In faith and love,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

PS: The best way to ensure that you don’t miss out on any of the great daily actions we have planned is to sign up for our Thirty Days daily emails! Click here to take the Thirty Days pledge.

PPS: We will be holding a Facebook chat this Friday, Jan. 25 at 4:00pm ET. I would love for you to join in and share your questions, comments, and more for the future of Standing on the Side of Love! Find more details here.

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Introducing…

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I am so thrilled to introduce myself as the new Standing on the Side of Love Campaign Manager. I am humbled by all of the great work this movement has already accomplished and I can’t wait to see where else we can go from here.

I want to hear from you and learn more about what you envision for the future of this campaign. Feel free to contact me anytime at love@uua.org to ask questions, share ideas, or just say hi!

Together, let’s put our faith in action and stand on the side of love.

In faith & justice,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

The message above went out on Friday, November 30, 2012 to Standing on the Side of Love supporters. You can sign-up for these emails here.

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