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The winter holidays are beautiful and celebratory; they’re also hard and complicated.Reflection | By Kim Mason | December 4, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
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May we recognize that our gardens and our lives can grow abundantly, even when we don’t understand how.Reflection | By Rayla D. Mattson | November 27, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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There are many ways to connect.Reflection | By Jo VonRue | November 20, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Friendship, Gratitude, Personal Stories, Worship
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“What is the most loving, life-affirming choice I can make in response to life’s circumstances?”Reflection | By Takiyah Nur Amin | October 30, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Conscience, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Discernment, God, Interfaith, Living Our Faith, Love, Power, Self-Respect, Spirituality, Worship
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Only when my knowledge is combined with uncountable others does Truth emerge.Reflection | By JD Stillwater | October 23, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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After the shattering, all that remains is another ordinary day.Reflection | By Donna Moriarty | October 16, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Brokenness, Despair, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Healing, Hope, Parents, Purpose, Sorrow, Spirituality, Strength, Worship
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The work of justice can’t be carried out by one person–or even a few diverse people.Reflection | By Antoinette Scully | October 9, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #UUTheVote, Worship
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I care that fascism is not just approaching, but is already here, rising, like this cresting river.Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | October 2, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #UUTheVote, Disaster or Crisis, Worship
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Like the free-roaming roosters of the Caribbean, no one can tell me I don’t belong.Reflection | By Raquel V. Reyes | September 25, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Character, Direct Experience, Identity, Integrity, International, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship
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All of us are active participants in co-creating congregational and community life.Reflection | September 18, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Accountability, Addiction/Recovery, Hospitality, Inclusion, Individualism, Responsibility, Worship
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What do you do when you’re really angry with someone and you can’t seem to let it go?Reflection | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | September 11, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anger, Brokenness, Buddhism, Compassion, Worship
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Staying present to what’s real—our world, our hope, our stories—can help us embody our values.Reflection | By Lindasusan Ulrich | September 4, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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This is a year in which hard, brave choices will be required of all of us.Reflection | By Martha Durkee-Neuman | June 26, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Courage, Creativity, Direct Experience, Discernment, Imagination, Integrity, Interdependence, Journey, Secular, Worship
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“Queer” challenges the status quo; it dares me to be authentically myself.Reflection | By Vanessa Titang | June 19, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Multiculturalism, Pride Sunday, Searching, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Transformation, Worship
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May everyone feel safe and free to love as they choose.Reflection | By Lynette Yetter | June 12, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Brokenness, Community, Despair, Direct Experience, Fear, Friendship, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Oppression, Pain, Pride Sunday, Searching, Women, Worship
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Being nonbinary has finally brought me home to myself.Reflection | By Mare Martell | June 5, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #LGBTQ, #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Coming-of-Age, Direct Experience, Discernment, Gender, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Searching, Self-Respect, Transformation, Wholeness, Worship
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My queerness is about mindset and attitude and intention.Reflection | By Paige Getty | May 29, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #Pride, Worship
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I have often felt the divine most present when I feel dissolved into a holy community.Reflection | By Julie Yeeun Kim | May 22, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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It takes a community to remember someone in all of their many facets.Reflection | By Aaron Stockwell Wisman | May 15, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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Dear world, how does love right now move me to action?Reflection | By Sarah Pirtle | May 8, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Direct Experience, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parents, Patience, Worry, Worship