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  • Love shows up in complicated conversations.
    Reflection | By Jo VonRue | February 1, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Children, Direct Experience, Love, Poverty, Shame, Worship
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  • How do we learn to live, as people and as congregations, like we are worthy of love? How do we live into compassion for ourselves and others?
    By Eric Bliss | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Compassion, Shame, Worth, Multiculturalism, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach
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  • A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.
    Reflection | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 15, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #COVID19, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Fear, Humanism, Illness, Interdependence, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Relationships, Secular, Shame, Vulnerability
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  • Perhaps there is a place for taboos in Unitarian Universalism.
    By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | June 3, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Climate Justice, Environment, Responsibility, Shame
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  • Oh, divine Love, With the kindling of this flame, may we realize and love our true selves: Our true, round belly selves. Our true, bags under our eyes, selves. Our true, naturally hairy, selves. Our true, wrinkles on our skin, selves. May our self-love help keep our chalice ablaze.
    Chalice Lighting | By Cooper Garrett | May 27, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Body, Compassion, Courage, Dignity, Love, Self-Respect, Shame, Truth, Vulnerability
    Worship element
  • Don’t speak to me of “healing” racism, or “wounded souls” or the “painful hurt” until you are willing to feel the scars on my great-great-grandmother Laury’s back. Don’t speak to me of “values” or “justice” or “righting wrongs” until you are able to feel the heartache...
    Reading | By Adam Lawrence Dyer | May 17, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Direct Experience, Healing, Identity, Justice, Personal Stories, Race/Ethnicity, Responsibility, Secular, Shame
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  • I wonder Did God’s heart (I mean the love-mushy, endearing part of God) That part The heart that I don’t really believe in as a thing, With pulses... ANYWAY Did that heart Did it Break just a little; When God realized "Oh no— They have made leaves into underpants!" If God says things like...
    Poetry | By Robin Tanner | April 4, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Body, God, Playfulness, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Shame, Wonder
    Worship element
  • We are whole, even in the broken places, even where it hurts. We are whole, even in the broken places, the places where fear impedes our full engagement with life; where self-doubt corrupts our self-love; where shame makes our faces hot and our souls cold. We are whole, even in those places where...
    Meditation | By Beth Lefever | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Brokenness, Self-Respect, Shame, Wholeness, Worth
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  • Because there have been times when shame has crushed our ability to be wholehearted We let go of who we ought to be and embrace who we are. Because we have not always had the courage to be imperfect We let go of who we ought to be and embrace who we are....
    Reading | By Dawn Skjei Cooley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Shame, Vulnerability
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  • From the book Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents. Once upon a time, the Buddha was born as a magnificent ibex. The forest in which he lived was far from civilization and therefore tranquil, inhabited by many creatures both small and large. Along the banks of clear,...
    Story | By Sarah Conover | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of Wonder
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Authority, Buddhism, Empathy, Good, Kindness, Nature, Power, Reconciliation, Shame
    Curriculum page
  • Activity time: 15 minutes Preparation for Activity Invite a long-time member of your congregation to come share recollections of the congregation's history. Explain the Rev. David Pettee's story of seeking his family's truth, and give them the story "Hard Truths" to read. Make sure the guest is...
    Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 4-5 | From Love Connects Us
    Tagged as: History, Humility, Shame
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  • Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "Hard Truths" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to share it with the group. Review the discussion questions....
    Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 4-5 | From Love Connects Us
    Tagged as: Courage, Humility, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Shame
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  • Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "W.H.G. Carter and a Step Toward Racial Reconciliation" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to tell or read it to the group. Description of Activity Participants will hear a true story illustrating how some...
    Activity | October 26, 2011 | For Children, Grades 4-5 | From Toolbox of Faith
    Tagged as: History, Justice, Race/Ethnicity, Regret, Shame
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