Openings: Words for Worship
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Amid all the noise in our lives
by Tim Haley
Opening Words | Meditations
Annual Meeting Invocation
by Heather K. Janules
Openings
As surely as we belong to the universe
by Margaret A. Keip
Opening Words | Calls to Worship
As we enter into worship, put away the pressures of the world
by Erika A. Hewitt
Openings | Opening Words
As we gather together this morning
by Bets Wienecke
Opening Words
Bridging Ceremony
by Jeff Liebmann
Opening Words | Coming of Age | Graduation Recognition
Call to Worship on Easter
by Elizabeth M. Strong
Chalice Lightings | Spring | Easter
Children of the earth and sky, we are nurtured, sustained
by Alice Berry
Opening Words
Come down off the ladder.
by David S. Blanchard
Openings | Opening Words
Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space.
by Andrew Pakula
Opening Words
Come into this circle of love and justice
by Marilyn J. Sewell
Openings | Variable | Association Sunday
Come into this house of worship.
by Carolyn S. Owen-Towle
Openings | Opening Words
Come into this place
by Rebecca A. Edmiston-Lange
Openings | Opening Words
Come ye into this house of worship!
by Elizabeth A. Parish
Openings | Opening Words
Come, all you who seek truth, abide in love, and honor peace, enter into this house with thanksgiving;
by Dorothy Boroush
Openings | Invocations
Come, Come To This Place
by Daniel Budd
Opening Words
Come, let us worship together.
by Lindsay Bates
Openings | Opening Words
Come, yet again, come
by Anne Slater
Opening Words | Meditations | Variable
Come. Let us be joined in seeking the aspirations of the heart.
by Calvin O. Dame
Openings | Opening Words
Determined Seed
by Laura Wallace
Openings | Opening Words | Winter
Do not leave your cares at the door.
by Norman V. Naylor
Openings | Opening Words
Easter
by Charles F. Flagg
Opening Words | Spring | Easter
Enter Into The Quiet
by Jay E. Abernathy, Jr.
Openings
Enter with me the sacred space.
by Amarette Callaway
Calls to Worship
Everything begins on the verge of awareness.
by George Kimmich Beach
Opening Words
For our community gathered here, for the spirit that called us together and drew us to this place:
by Jane E. Mauldin
Opening Words | Litanies
Here in this sanctuary of ancient dreams and wisdom and beauty we come to grow
by Jack Mendelsohn
Openings | Winter | New Year's Day
House of Welcoming
by Orlanda R. Brugnola
Opening Words
How To Write Your Own Invocations
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Openings | Invocations | Variable
How To Write Your Own Opening Words
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Openings | Opening Words | Variable
If just for this hour
by Martha Kirby Capo
Opening Words | Variable | Association Sunday
In this quiet hour may our spirits be renewed.
by Gary Kowalski
Opening Words
Ingathering
by Tamara Lebek
Openings | Opening Words | Fall | Homecoming / Ingathering
It Is Good To Be Together
by Alison Wohler
Invocations
Let there be joy in our coming together this morning.
by Carl G Seaburg
Opening Words
Many Paths
by Martha Kirby Capo
Opening Words | Variable | Association Sunday
May we come into this building hallowed
by Kenneth R. Warren
Opening Words
Motherless Child
by Amy Bowden Freedman
Openings | Responsive Readings
On a Winter Morning
by Barbara Cheatham
Opening Words
Once More
by Amy Bowden Freedman
Openings | Opening Words | Spring
One of the old ones stood up into the morning light
by Barbara J. Pescan
Opening Words
Opening Words for a Blessing of the Animals
by Susan Karlson
Opening Words | Blessing of the Animals
Opening Words for a Leadership Team Worship
by Gina Whitaker
Opening Words | Responsive Readings
Opening Words for Flower Communion Sunday
by Thomas Rhodes
Opening Words | Spring | Flower Communion
Opening Words for the Summer Solstice
by B. Leslie Koons
Opening Words
Reach the Place of Self
by Ma. Theresa Gustilo Gallardo
Openings | Opening Words | Variable
Reflection on the UUA Purpose and Principles
by Michael E. Sallwasser
Opening Words
Sabbath Invitation
by John Millspaugh
Opening Words
Seasons of Our Lives
by Richard M. Fewkes
Openings
Special Ingathering Ritual with Calling of Directions
by Jane Altman Page
Invocations | Fall | Homecoming / Ingathering
Spirit of life and hope,
by Clarke Dewey Wells
Invocations
Spirit of life and love, we have gathered here in search of answers to hard questions.
by Sue Ayer
Invocations
Spirit of life, be present with us
by Kathy A. Huff
Invocations
Spirit of life, come to us to break down barriers
by Rhys Williams
Invocations
The conscious choice
by Martha Kirby Capo
Opening Words | Variable | Association Sunday
The meaning of Christmas to a Unitarian Universalist
by Lenny Scovel
Openings | Opening Words | Winter | Christmas Eve / Christmas
The Ones Who Ever Win
by Eileen B. Karpeles
Opening Words
The Sacred Heart
by Christopher A. Rothbauer
Openings
There are some heights to which we have not risen, and never will
by Paul H. Bicknell
Opening Words
These Bodies, These Blessings
by Erika A. Hewitt
Openings | Prayers
To this house we come bringing our boldest dreams
by Lawrence E. McGinty
Opening Words
Today we celebrate a dream awakening.
by Elizabeth M. Strong
Openings | Opening Words
Water! Earth! Air! Fire!
by Peter S. Raible
Opening Words | Spring | Earth Day
We are called to gather in worship as a beloved community.
by Kirk D. Loadman-Copeland
Opening Words
We are here that we might have life
by John C. Morgan
Opening Words | Offerings
We are here today to recognize the completion of your Coming of Age...
Opening Words | Spring | Coming of Age
We are people of all ages
by Carol Meyer
Opening Words | Responsive Readings
We are Unitarian Universalists
by John M. Higgins
Openings | Opening Words
We bid you welcome on this first Sunday of the new year.
by Sylvia L. Howe
Opening Words | Winter | New Year's Day
We come to love a church,
by Andrew C. Kennedy
Opening Words
We come to this hour
by Louise A. Robeck
Opening Words
We come together today in praise and thanksgiving
by Mary J. Harrington
Opening Words | Spring | Mother's Day
We gather here as individual people:
by Barbara Hamilton-Holway
Openings | Opening Words | Fall | Homecoming / Ingathering
We gather here to worship:
by Gary Kowalski
Opening Words
We gather in community to rest from our labors
by Paul H. L'Herrou
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We gather on this Sabbath morn
by Burton D. Carley
Opening Words
We gather this day to seek in the midst of our fragmented selves the unity which enfolds us all
by John H. Robinson, Jr.
Opening Words
We gather together in this space to honor and understand our lives.
by Judith G. Mannheim
Opening Words
We gather together to face ourselves honestly,
by Philip Larson
Opening Words
We gather together: familiar words to many of us.
by Libbie D. Stoddard
Openings
We have come into this room of hope
by Libbie D. Stoddard
Opening Words
we need one another
by Erik Walker Wikstrom
Opening Words | Variable | Association Sunday
We summon ourselves from the demands and delights of the daily round:
by Gordon B. McKeeman
Opening Words
We unite in our differences
by David Breeden
Opening Words | Variable | Association Sunday
Welcome to this common, sacred space.
by Amy McKenzie Quinn
Opening Words
Welcome to this place of possibility!
by Marianne Hachten Cotter
Openings
What life have we, if we have not life together?
by Charles A. Howe
Opening Words
Whatever the need that brings you to this special place and hour,
by Albert F. Ciarcia
Opening Words
When I Change
by Ma. Theresa Gustilo Gallardo
Invocations | Responsive Readings | Variable
Whether you have come here with heart full or heart empty,
by Krista Taves
Opening Words | Responsive Readings
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Last updated on Tuesday, February 19, 2013.
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