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  • The tree is all set Packages piled at its base. Telephone calls from the kids confirming the times of dinner and church. Nothing much left to do. The Fed Ex guy just delivered the last late order. I'll wrap it, and then what? Time on my hands. Time to think. What is this all about? Christmas is...
    Reading | By Ken Nye | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christmas Eve / Christmas
  • Someone told me once that Einstein thought time is a variable. That is to say that time is not a constant. Are you following this? I think Einstein was right. When I was a child, a year was a YEAR! Now a year is a week....
    Reading | By Ken Nye | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Aging, Balance, Direct Experience, Humanism, Patience, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Wisdom
  • A knock at the door, late morning. The dog makes a racket, but the two stand their ground. They are on God's business. I know before I open the door what they have to say—that God is the answer. I pull the door open, try to be pleasant, (but, please, don't talk too long). Two women, earnest,...
    Reading | By Ken Nye | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Peace
  • My dad died 28 years ago. I still have some of his things: A red plaid Pendleton bath robe. (I look like Dad in that thing now.) An old Sears table saw bought used in 1950. I still use it, (but for rough cuts only). An old grinding wheel, noisy as sin, but sharpens mower blades in no time....
    Reading | By Ken Nye | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children, Family, Father's Day, Fathers, Generations, History, Integrity, Parents
  • I was working with a group of young people at a Safe Schools conference in Boston. They were discussing how to tell their parents they were gay or lesbian. Many of them had suffered harassment, brutality, and ostracism by their peers, and they worried about how to protect their parents from the...
    Reading | By Elizabeth Tarbox | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Family, Good Friday, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Unitarian Universalism
  • A one-paragraph newspaper article describes a subway platform during the morning rush hour at Grand Central Terminal. A train pulls in; a well-dressed woman gets off. Before the doors close, the woman realizes that she is holding only one of her leather gloves. She looks back into the train and...
    Reading | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Letting Go, Playfulness, Work
  • Do not live too far in the past or the future. Live now. In each moment expect a miracle: ten kinds of birds at the feeder, and the tracks of a fox in the snow. Pick up a magnifying glass and scrutinize that crocus. See the pollen at the center of the daffodil, life's dust, death-defying life. Be...
    Reading | By Elizabeth Tarbox | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Direct Experience, Listening, Nature, Presence, Wonder
  • Blackmail, blacklist, black mark. Black Monday, black mood, black-hearted. Black plague, black mass, black market. Good guys wear white, bad guys wear black. We fear black cats, and the Dark Continent. But it's okay to tell a white lie, lily-white hands are coveted, it's great to be pure as the...
    Reading | By Jacqui James | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Psychology, Race/Ethnicity
  • I wasn't flattered when one of my daughters confided that she had thought of me as "The Big There-There" when she was three years old. If I remember correctly, I was in the middle of a phase where I was hoping to reassure myself that I still had a fertile mind as well as a welcoming bosom. Now,...
    Reading | By Barbara Rohde | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring
  • Many Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships start their worship service on Sunday morning by lighting a flame inside a chalice. This flaming chalice is a symbol for Unitarian Universalists just as the cross and the Star of David are symbols for other religious groups....
    Reading | By Noreen Kimball | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: History, Unitarian Universalism
  • Many years ago in the land of Transylvania, in a mountain valley watered by quick rushing streams and shadowed by great forests of beech trees, there was a village of small wooden houses with dark-shingled roofs....
    Reading | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Faith, Grace, Love
  • In a land far away, a wise old man who knew a great deal about people because he traveled from place to place arrived at a strange village. In this town all the people were carrying what seemed to be great bundles on their backs....
    Reading | By Barbara Marshman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Peace
  • Once upon a time God said, "I'm bored because I don't have anything to do. I want to play with my friends." And because God is God, as soon as the words were spoken, God's friends were there. When God saw them all gathered, God said, "I've been bored because I haven't had anything to do....
    Reading | By Mary Ann Moore | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, God, Mystery
  • Once upon a time, a girl named Ramona and a boy named Roberto had a wonderful dog. They named the dog Feliz because he was so happy when they came home from school each day. He bounded toward them, barking and tail wagging madly. His sandy brown coat was sort of wavy around the shoulders but...
    Reading | By Heather Lynn Hanson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Easter, Good Friday, Grief, Love
  • It is easy to pray when the sun shines And we are grateful for another glorious day of being. It is hard to pray when wind and rain and thunder Plague our every step and spoil our every plan. It is easy to be virtuous when life goes well And our existence is a journey from bliss to beauty and back.
    Reading | By Richard S. Gilbert | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Spiritual Practice
  • The other day I was driving on an expressway. These days expressway driving seems a frantic enterprise. Near one of the exit ramps, one of the highway denizens, a behemoth "semi" had pulled over onto the berm. The driver had emerged and was gathering some wild plants along the side of the road.
    Reading | By Gordon B McKeeman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Solidarity
  • Most of us look for love in only the most obvious places, and as a result, most of us come away disappointed. Its as if we are still grade school kids, counting valentines as a measure of what matters. The love that matters is not typically the subject of sonnets or love songs....
    Reading | By David S Blanchard | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Love
  • A well-known poem by Robert Graves speaks of butterflies—their "honest idiocy of flight," "lurching here and there by guess and God and hope and hopelessness." Any number of quotations sound this way, and so, I think do we. But privately. Publicly we speak the civilized language of human beings...
    Reading | By Jane Rzepka | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Connections, Suffering
  • We come into one another's presence seeking some part of ourselves, knowing that we do not live alone, knowing that we cannot live fully if we are for ourselves alone. We come as ordinary people, each with strengths and each with weaknesses, aware of our shortcomings. Our lives set before us many...
    Reading | By Calvin O Dame | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Brokenness
  • We are here because we are people of faith. Within each of us lives the conviction of a saving faith that could restore our broken planet and illuminate the lives of our sisters and brothers. Ancient wisdom teaches that we who would save the world must first save ourselves....
    Reading | By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), Brokenness, Faith, Healing, Mystery, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom