Montana Steele is a member of SGUUF and lifelong UU on a long and meandering path to UU ministry. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from Southwestern University in December 2013, focusing her studies in Hinduism and Buddhism. She has since found empowering and energizing work as the Customer Experience Team Manager for Aceable, an online driving and real estate education company that was named Austin’s Best Place to Work in 2017. She lives happily in Austin with her pup Jupiter.
On this day we will be learn about beauty. Where do you look for beauty? Every religion agrees: The secret of encountering spiritual beauty is to visit and explore the unlikely places. It teaches us to observe and see beauty in locations we least expected.
Have you ever felt broken in some way? Do you have moments when you feel your heart breaking, you feel your mental stability breaking, you feel your body breaking? This is, indeed, a part of the human condition – but are those moments of feeling broken a necessary part of feeling whole? This Sunday, bring … Continue reading WabiSabiWholeness
Painful memories are often stored so vividly in the mind, ready to be called back by the smallest of triggers, and sometimes it can feel like the only way to heal is to erase them. But the heart has a “muscle memory” for love, and it will work again if you nourish it. This Sunday … Continue reading Eternal Sunshine of the Heart
How can a practice of gratitude impact the way we receive blessing? Come, let us explore together the relationship between gratitude and blessing.
Let’s explore together balance as a self-care practice, and how we may journey to seek balance within ourselves. How do our attachments and desires, and being without those things, create the feeling of imbalance, and what can we do to return to the balanced state, without and within?
Traveling outside of the United States for the second time in her life – the first was 4 months in India, Montana recently visited Japan for a week. You are invited to join her to hear stories about gratitude and honor, and about traveling and observing with UU values in heart and a mind open to learning. Come, … Continue reading On Being UU in Japan
Having just returned from our historic UUA General Assembly in New Orleans, Montana will bring us her reflections. The current political climate of the UUA gives this year’s GA a growing edge, especially for a Young Adult. Given the current political climate of the US, merely keeping calm and blindly carrying on is not an … Continue reading Stay Strong and Carry On
Many of us know about the growing number of “Nones” or people who proclaim to be “spiritual but not religious”. Many UUs, including myself, have made this proclamation before proudly beginning to explain the UU identity, and how we create a “spiritual-but-not-religious” community together. This Sunday, gather with me to challenge that notion; to think … Continue reading Religious But Not Spiritual
