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White supremacy culture tells me that I’m only "good" if I’m perfect, treating all falls as hard stops.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | March 16, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Ending, Failure, Growth, Humanism, Letting Go, Secular, Worship
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Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.Reflection | By Quinn Gormley | March 2, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Children, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Parents, Pride Sunday, Secular, Worship
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Praise be for our connection. Help us to learn from each other.Reflection | By Anonymous | February 23, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Diversity, Friendship, Playfulness, Worship
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Every time I find the sacred unexpectedly, I am filled with awe and surprise.Reflection | By Tania Márquez | February 16, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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I was often being a stern taskmaster over my mind. I yearned for more openness and joy.Reflection | By Lynette Yetter | February 9, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Beginnings, Buddhism, Creativity, Direct Experience, Mindfulness, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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I affirm that I am worthy of being good enough to touch hearts and souls, and connect others to Spirit.Reflection | By JeKaren Olaoya | February 2, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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If I want well-being to be my truth, I must reclaim and protect it.Reflection | By Atena O. Danner | January 26, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Body, Limitations, Self-Care, Worship
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To understand that my humanity and my abundant flesh both demand dignity is to embrace fat liberation.Reflection | By Andrew Tripp | January 19, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Body, Fat Liberation, Love, Self-Respect, Worship
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Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | January 12, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Choice, Direct Experience, Discernment, Living Our Faith, Love, Pain, Parents, Relationships, Worship
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What word might you use as your centering lodestar for 2022?Reflection | By Tim Atkins | January 5, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Worship
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May we continue to find ways to connect while keeping safe this holiday season.Reflection | By Laura Shay | December 22, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Community, Worship
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For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.Reflection | By Jake Morrill | December 15, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Food, Grace, Patience, Worship
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Each Advent, my empathy for Mary’s situation returns.Reflection | By Taryn Strauss | December 8, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Children, Choice, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Discernment, Women, Worship
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Acknowledging that our dream was not happening didn't end the grief, but it did offer closure.Reflection | By Leslie Gatto | December 1, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Children, Direct Experience, Grief, Mothers, Parents, Worship
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May we release ourselves from the need to fit every truth neatly into our own language.Reflection | By Sally Fritsche | November 24, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Atheism, Compassion, Direct Experience, Discernment, Empathy, Ministry, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Worship
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Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.Reflection | By David Glasgow | November 17, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Arts & Music, Coming Out, Courage, Direct Experience, Friendship, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Secular, Solidarity, Worship
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We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.Reflection | By DanaLee Simon | November 10, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Animals, Character, Earth-Centered, Growth, Limitations, Nature, Purpose, Worship
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If this year is a "lost" year, then I am bound to live a lost life.Reflection | By Shaya French | November 3, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #COVID19, Worship
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The dead aren’t really dead; their stories are perpetually being told by the world around us.Reflection | By Tania Márquez | October 27, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: All Souls Day, Día de los Muertos, Interfaith, Worship
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I am learning to give up needing to know the answers, and instead live with the questions.Reflection | By Diane Dassow | October 20, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Body, Direct Experience, Illness, Patience, Peace, Spiritual Practice, Worry, Worship