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  • Praise and thanks to you, divine source of comfort, of pleasure, of knowledge and of peace.
    Meditation | By Judy Welles | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Mother's Day, Spring
  • No one is ever really ready for Christmas....
    Meditation | By Maureen Killoran | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Connections, Direct Experience, Love, Patience
  • Let us join our hearts and minds together in the spirit of meditation and prayer. May these moments of quiet lead us to the heart of the season, which is peace. May we breathedeeply of peace in this quiet place, relax into its warmth, know we are safe here, and let us open our hearts to the...
    Meditation | By Christine Robinson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christmas Eve / Christmas
  • Not gold, nor myrrh, nor even frankincense would I have for you this season, but simple gifts, the ones that are hardest to find, the ones that are perfect, even for those who have everything (if such there be). I would (if I could) have for you the gift of courage, the strength to face the...
    Meditation | By Maureen Killoran | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Challenge, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Community, Connections, Courage, Generosity, Hope, Presence, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Simplicity, Strength, Winter Solstice / Yule
  • Holy and Creative Light, teach us to love this earth, our home. Together we live in one small house, even though to us it seems so large, with so many rooms. This quiet star, marbled blue and white, was hanging here and spinning in black space long before we came....
    Meditation | By Charles W Grady | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Empathy, Anti-Oppression
  • "Heart's delight, Source of mercy," beyond my sight yet beside my soul, holy is the very thought of thee. Justice is your call and love your enfolding heart. Abide with us day by day even in our stumbling, that we may grow in our compassion for our kindred....
    Meditation | By W. Frederick Wooden | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Direct Experience, Humility, Immanence, Judaism, Presence, Sacred, Searching
  • Out of a troubled world of expediency and selfish strife, we come to this place set apart for the renewal of vision. Great Unity beyond all differences, should our lives be narrowed by personal sorrow or tragedy, envision us with a sense of worth; should we be weary of the diminishing purposes of...
    Meditation | By Andrew M Hill | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Healing, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism, Unity, Vision, Worth
  • Great Rainbow Arch your bright light your seven colours your cool dew link sky and earth above the Christmas stable. Hold us all in your encompassing arms. Forgive our exclusion of others earth and life and child. So may we too forgive those who have excluded us. Save us from the darkness of deep...
    Meditation | By Andrew M Hill | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Earth, Earth-Centered, Forgiveness, Nature, Presence, Transcendence, Winter Solstice / Yule
  • O God, whom we know as love, we gather here this morning as seekers and finders, creators and destroyers, givers and receivers of love....
    Meditation | By Wayne B. Arnason | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Direct Experience, Generations, God, Healing, Love, Relationships, Searching
  • God of all oppressed persons, remind us of your presence in voices of protest; shatter our self-complacent faith in liberty freely given; and remind us of the cost of hard-won freedom. Let the pain of strangled dreams return us to a knowledge of our own triumphs in the struggle to be free....
    Meditation | By Robin F. Gray | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Responsibility, Anti-Oppression
  • God of all generations, in all the power, mystery and design of this world, draw us near, inspire us to see anew the life before us. Make us like the child who sees so clearly and touches so deeply. From the source of our being, we yearn for new vision, new eyes to see the world, new ears to hear...
    Meditation | By Marta Flanagan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Mystery, Pain, Presence, Searching, Unitarian Universalism
  • Giver of being and freedom, thou who touches our lives in unforeseen ways, who unsettles our ease and upsets our self-satisfactions: We wait in these moments of stillness to let the hidden processes of healing and growth do their silent work within us, and to let the quiet work of reconciliation ...
    Meditation | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Growth, Mystery, Searching, Silence, Trust, Unitarian Universalism
  • Let us be united in the spirit of aspiration and thanksgiving: Eternal light, toward whose quickening dawn all generations yearn, we lift our hearts in thanksgiving for all true ministry, for those of every time and place who take upon themselves all suffering along the way, who are quick to sear...
    Meditation | By John Cummins | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children, Responsibility, Reverence
  • Eternal God, Source of All Creation, we would give substance to our thankfulness by resolving to make right use of the gifts we have received from thy bounty. With thy gift of the senses we would fashion and preserve a world of beauty for all....
    Meditation | By Robert Walsh | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Beauty, Compassion, Discernment, Gratitude, Justice, Peace, Responsibility, Searching, Thanksgiving, Truth
  • God of the Autumn, help us to live with the grace of falling leaves the enthusiasm of the flaming Aspens with the serenity of the old trees, whose roots reach deep into the earth. God of the Autumn, help us to know that living and dying are one that life is precious, and beautiful, and limited....
    Meditation | By Christine Robinson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Autumnal Equinox, Fall, Nature, Reverence
  • God of tears and the mysterious silence, God of suffering and God of hope, you have made for everything a season. This is the season of our sorrow, of our grief, and we pray for grace to deal with what seems impossible to deal with....
    Meditation | By Kirk D Loadman-Copeland | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Grief
  • O God of life, help us make this church a refuge from the world, a place where the rules are different....
    Meditation | By Richard Trudeau | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Community, Compassion, Direct Experience, Growth, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Service, Teamwork, Trust
  • God of goodness, you are the life of life, the breath of all, the eternal yet ever-changing wholeness into which infinity is poured and from which life is born anew. To you I offer myself, with you I simply am; as you I amaze myself with energy, compassion and calm....
    Meditation | By Lucinda S Duncan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Courage, Forgiveness, God, Letting Go, Unitarian Universalism
  • God of all peoples, Spirit of life and love, be in our hearts and minds this hour. Bless this gathering and this place. Help us tonight to speak to one another as we would be spoken to, with truthfulness and kindly regard....
    Meditation | By Rebecca A Edmiston-Lange | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Diversity
  • Wouldn't it be great if you could take a picture of your soul?...
    Meditation | By Tess Baumberger | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Identity, Mystery, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism, Wonder