A covenant is a set of promises that we make to one another, in a Unitarian Universalist religious community, in light of something larger than ourselves. A covenant is a commitment to the relationships we have with one another and to making, maintaining and strengthening those relationships. By making that commitment to relationship, we can achieve something important that we could not achieve by ourselves. Through our commitment, the religious communities we form matter not only in our own lives, but in the lives of people we have never met and may not ever know.