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  • With a blue sky behind him, a Black man opens his arms wide and lifts his face up, with eyes closed, as if basking in joy.
    Gratitude is the opposite of addiction. Opposite gratitude is shame, denial, and spiritual paralysis
    Meditation | By Michael J. Crumpler | September 25, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Choice, Gratitude, Worship
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  • A bas-relief of Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” drawing, which shows a diagram of a man inside a circle, with his arms and legs extended so that his hands and feet touch the circumference, and with his arms and legs shown in two positions. The sculpture is made out of grey metal, with a decorative border surrounding the circle in which the man is enclosed.
    …Now that we have enjoyed the quiet, connected to our bodies, and noticed how we are connected to the world around us, may we remember that connection with every breath.
    Meditation | By Lóre Stevens | April 2, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Connections, Earth, Mindfulness, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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  • A flurry of red sparks against the background of a black sky. The camera’s shutter speed was set so that each spark leaves a red trail along its path, so the image looks almost like many red pieces of straw in the air, all aligned more or less in the same direction.
    Yule is a time to rest and settle into the darkness.
    Meditation | By Cyndi Simpson | January 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Growth, Journey, Letting Go, Meaning, Nature, Silence, Spiritual Practice, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
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  • A young orange, brown, and white tabby cat lies on a bed with its eyes closed. The cat is on a light brown fleece blanket, and a pillow with a floral pillowcase is visible behind it. Sunlight rakes in at a low angle and illuminates part of the cat and the blanket.
    Sometimes we awake in the morning, and we’d rather go back to sleep… And then, the first sliver of sunshine may dance across our face.
    Meditation | By Rebekah Savage | December 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Beginnings, Body, Grace, Interdependence, Love, Nature, Worship
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  • The bronze statue of Atlas that stands above the entrance of the central train station in Frankfurt. Atlas struggles to hold the Earth — with a band of figures representing the twelve astrological signs surrounding the equator — on his back and shoulders. Atlas is aided by allegorical figures representing Steam and Electricity.
    We call upon all the transcendent gifts of renewal to be bestowed upon us, for an energizing renewal to fill us in all the ways that serve our lagging spirits when our own resilience wanes.
    Meditation | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Challenge, Grace, Healing, Love, Oppression, Pain, Resilience, Stress, Wholeness, Worship
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  • A parent holding the hand of a small child approaches a red van with an open door, where North Carolina Army National Guard Soldiers work with a school cafeteria worker to distribute breakfast meals.
    There will be help and community and kindness....
    Meditation | By Elizabeth Barish Browne | October 8, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Humanism, Worship
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  • A photo looking directly up into the Tiffany glass dome of the Chicago Public Library's Preston Bradley Hall. Seven concentric circles, each composed of thousands of blue or white panes of glass, surround the central chandelier, itself composed of hundred of translucent white panes of glass.
    A centering practice for meetings, gatherings or worship in person or online.
    Meditation | By Lauren Wyeth | April 4, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Connections, Contemplation, Immanence, Love, Mindfulness, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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  • We—you and I—are in-between right now
    Meditation | By Michelle LaGrave | October 10, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Change, Doubt, Limitations, Patience, Searching, Transformation
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  • I am seeking the courage to be open.
    Meditation | By Douglas Taylor | April 20, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Courage, Vulnerability, Worship
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  • There is hope through imagination.
    Meditation | By Douglas Taylor | April 20, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Empathy, Imagination, Solidarity, Worship
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  • Against a white background, several flower bulbs and one upright bulbs with shoots of green rising from its top.
    Beneath the crust of earth, seeds and bulbs lay in store.
    Meditation | By Jennifer Johnson | March 10, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Patience, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Winter, Worship
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  • A dark cloud gives way to blue sky and vivid sunet over a gray ocean
    Soak in the mystery and beauty of the universe.
    Meditation | By Mary Gear | March 1, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Connections, Gratitude, Imagination, Worship
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  • A crowd of protestors, from behind. One person holds aloft a sign, "Black Lives Matter," while in the background a Black person uses a microphone
    When you hear, “We are the liberating force, spirit, light, and love,” what does that conjure in your spirit?
    Meditation | By Elandria Williams | January 25, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Power, Solidarity, Worship
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  • Delicate snowdrop flowers begin to bloom on a frosty ground.
    Beneath the snow, life is bursting, preparing for the next season.
    Meditation | By Sharon Delgadillo | August 24, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, Nature, Secular, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Worship
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  • an abstract image of purple and black curves on a vertical plane
    I offer my "Ouch" with hope and trust.
    Meditation | By Atena O. Danner | August 18, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Connections, Forgiveness, Humility, Living Our Faith, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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  • When I first entered the rooms of recovery, I thought I had nothing in common with the people around me.
    Meditation | By Anonymous | February 4, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Caring, Friendship, Self-Care, Vulnerability
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  • While it may be urgent to work toward creating justice, I can’t do that unless I have a sense of calm.
    Meditation | By Anonymous | February 4, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Balance, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice
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  • For those of us who grew up in homes with addiction or dysfunction, it was so hard to know we were loved.
    Meditation | By Anonymous | February 4, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
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  • The moment of asking for help is a tender moment.
    Meditation | By Anonymous | February 4, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Humility, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Vulnerability
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  • The real holy of holies happens in sobriety when relationships with self and others are healthy and whole.
    Meditation | By Anonymous | January 28, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Direct Experience, Healing, Health, Letting Go, Secular, Worship
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