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Quiet yourself and listen to the rhythm of your breath, your heart . . .Listen to the silence . . .Meditation | By Stephen W Dick | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Contemplation, Direct Experience, Meditation Practices, Self-Care, Silence, Spiritual PracticeWorship element -
Let us be together in silence. Let our hearts listen. Let this house be quiet. For a moment, stretch back in memory to the first time you joined a meeting of this church. It may have been in this building or in a rented space or a home. What was happening then? Were you comfortable, anxious,...Meditation | By Jacqueline A Collins | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Building/Space Dedication, Connections, Friendship, History, Purpose, Strength, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Let there be a quiet time among us. Spirit of life, in us and around us, here is our chance—once again—to live like we wish the world would live. May we find within ourselves the courage to be who we are. May we know when it is time to listen and when it is time to speak. May we trust ourselves...Meditation | By Barbara Hamilton-Holway | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Discernment, Hope, Integrity, Limitations, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Somewhere across the world,...Meditation | By Kathleen Rolenz | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Easter, PeaceWorship element
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Some days dark tremors sweep across our lives. Troubling events accost us. We have grown accustomed to such things, and often we have fenced off our natural sympathies with the thought: this belongs to somebody else....Meditation | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Hope, Self-Care, SufferingWorship element -
Palm Sunday is found: whenever we are serving a noble and unpopular cause with selfless devotion, holding to the ideals of truth and justice; whenever we are seeking to uplift the fallen, to comfort the brokenhearted, to strengthen and encourage the weak and hopeless; whenever we are working brav...Meditation | By David O. Rankin | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Palm SundayWorship element -
We listen to the wisdom of our inner hearts and minds as we join in meditation.Meditation | By Anne E Treadwell | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Easter, Judaism, Passover (Pesach)Worship element
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Let us enter into a spirit of meditation. Much of our human struggle is with what we do not know or understand. It is often difficult not to want answers—or even more difficult, not to think we have them already. May we experience what we do not know not as an individual failure but as an...Meditation | By Linda M Hansen | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Community, Direct Experience, Letting Go, Searching, Unitarian Universalism, WonderWorship element
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The moment of prayer is an invitation to be calm in the midst of the tumult of the world and our over-busy lives, to bring together thought and feeling, mind and spirit, and to find some center -- some still point -- of perspective and peace. Here in this sanctuary which has been the home for so...Meditation | By Earl K Holt III | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Connections, GenerosityWorship element
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May we look with gratitude upon this day, for the beauty of the world, for the first radiance of dawn and the last smoldering glow of sunset....Meditation | By Michael R Leduc | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: GratitudeWorship element
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Like pendulums we swing from hunger to hunger -- from hunger for the one great Truth (absolute, eternal, mystical) to hunger for simple, near-in, familiar truths that change as we change, grow as we grow....Meditation | By Don W Vaughn-Foerster | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, SearchingWorship element
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Let us take a moment to settle into the silence. Hear and feel your quiet breathing. Hear and feel the quiet of this room and this community of quiet people. As we sit in the quiet, feel the life that stretches between us, that fills this room....Meditation | By Emmy Lou Belcher | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Connections, Freedom, Presence, Silence, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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As today we have received these children into the congregation and committed ourselves to their nurture, let us now receive into our hearts all children. Let us remember the children we once were and who still live within us. Let us love them now, in this quiet moment....Meditation | By Connie P Sternberg | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Child Dedication, Conscience, JusticeWorship element
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Let us rejoice for the families who have gathered this Thanksgiving to express their thanks and to celebrate the bounty of their lives. Let us join together in support of those whose families are far away, with distances in many forms. Let us hold one another in gentle reverence this holiday of...Meditation | By Elizabeth M Strong | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Death, Family, Gratitude, Illness, Thanksgiving, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Let us praise those fathers who have striven to balance the demands of work, marriage, and children with an honest awareness of both joy and sacrifice. Let us praise those fathers who, lacking a good model for a father, have worked to become a good father. Let us praise those fathers who by their...Meditation | By Kirk D Loadman-Copeland | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Children, Family, Father's Day, Fathers, Gratitude, Healing, Love, Parents, Relationships, SacrificeWorship element -
Let there always be in the seasons of our lives a time for forgiveness -- for such is being human that we do unto others, as they do unto us, that which needs to be forgiven. There is a saying that "It's easier to forgive our enemies after we've gotten even with them." But is that in truth...Meditation | By Rolfe Gerhardt | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: ForgivenessWorship element
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In this time of anticipated spring let us allow ourselves to extend the anticipation—to value the time of budding before blooming, of seeding before sprouting. This is a time of revelation: the revealing of that which is eternal, which we see every year, but still need to be reminded to see it in...Meditation | By Terasa Cooley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Birth, Earth, Hope, Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas, Listening, Nature, Unitarian Universalism, Vernal EquinoxWorship element
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In the moments when Word is silence give yourself to it in wholeness and wait. Let the knowing of this primal sound carry you into circles where sound itself— where silence itself—becomes new and the new a song you sing from your bones.Meditation | By Susan L Van Dreser | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Body, Direct Experience, Immanence, Listening, Silence, Unitarian Universalism, WholenessWorship element
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Introduction: In our time of meditation this morning, we are going to continue to work on the issue of forgiveness. I invite you to continue to hold in your mind and heart, the situation of hurt that you were thinking about during the sermon....Meditation | By Christine Robinson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, JudaismWorship element
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Let us join in the exercise of silence for reflection, repose, meditation, or prayer. (Silence) In reflecting upon the dispiriting time in which we live, I have come to believe that the basic religious response is to refuse to be dispirited for long....Meditation | By Greta W Crosby | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Hope, Pain, Patience, Trust, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element