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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Listening or its children.

  • Four people with their backs to the camera stand shoulder-to-shoulder, their arms around each other, as they look into a beautiful sunny vista.

    Appreciation and deep witness are beautiful gateways for returning to our most authentic selves.

    Reflection | By Jami Yandle | March 6, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Compassion, Friendship, Humanism, Interdependence, Listening, Love, Vulnerability, Worship

  • Once, during my ministerial internship, a woman I’ll call Clara came up to me during the hustle and bustle before the Sunday service. I knew that Clara struggled with anxiety; now, in great distress, she told me how anxious she was and that she didn’t know what to do. She was frantic, and I...

    Reading | By Barbara F. Meyers | July 27, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Caring, Listening, Mental Health, Presence
  • A string of Christmas lights rests on bright pink branches of a Christmas tree that's obviously artificial.

    Make sure, both at Christmastime and in other times, that you ask for that which you really want.

    Homily | By Megan Foley | December 1, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Advent, Belief, Children, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Direct Experience, Discernment, Generosity, Humanism, Listening, Meaning, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • the view from a plane's cockpit, with instruments lit up and a view of terrain and a rising sun through the cockpit window

    The most life-giving coping strategy—for me—is to attune to a voice calmer and wiser than mine, and allow that seeking to be its own expression of faith.

    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | July 22, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Discernment, Faith, Letting Go, Listening, Presence, Searching, Spiritual Practice

  • How do we as people and as congregations meet the intensity of this moment with curiosity instead of defensiveness?

    By Tandi Rogers | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Listening, Multiculturalism, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • A pitcher of flowers rests on the windowsill inside a room reseembling a chapel

    These opening words are formatted for two readers, as indicated below....

    Opening | By Shari Woodbury | January 16, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Home, Humanism, Listening, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism
  • A time-lapse photo of a sky at twilight, with the curved lines of stars' movement.

    Sit and rest for a minute. Take several deep breaths in and out again, calling your attention to this space. Attention. Pay attention. Pay attention to where you are right now. I mean where you are, Where you are, And where you are....

    Meditation | By Nancy Reid-McKee | January 16, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Listening, Presence, Spiritual Practice
  • A pitcher of flowers rests on the windowsill inside a room reseembling a chapel

    This story is great to be acted out by four women (of applicable ages for each direction) around a large bowl/vessel....

    Story | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Generations, Imagination, Listening, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Women
  • In an outstretched palm, star-shaped glitter sparkles

    In every person we meet, especially those who cause us discomfort, we find an opportunity for us to grow, to learn, to go further along the path of transformation that is our purpose in life. Every single one is our teacher. May the next week bring you many such moments of meeting that help you...

    Benediction | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Change, Growth, Humanism, Humility, Listening, Searching, Secular, Transformation
  • The tile in the bottom of a Magic 8 ball says "You may rely on it."

    What I do know for sure is that hope matters. One of the best things we can do is to hold hope for someone when that person cannot hold it for themselves.

    Reflection | By Elea Kemler | October 2, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Hope, Listening, Ministry, Presence, Searching