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  • (adapted from the original) I say that it touches us that our blood is sea water and our tears are salt, that the seed of our bodies is scarcely different from the same cells in a seaweed, and that the stuff of our bones is like the coral. I say that the tide rolls in on us, whether we like it or...
    Poetry | By Marni Harmony | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Body, Change, Nature, Reverence
    Worship element
  • Once upon a time I was Now I am Some day I will become Once there was And now there is Soon there will be And some day there surely shall be Once upon a time we were Now we are And some day (Hallelujah!) we shall surely become Amen Amen...
    Poetry | By Margaret Williams Braxton | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Change, Character, Direct Experience, Growth, Reverence
    Worship element
  • Something has changed in me this winter. In the past I’ve focused on how long winter is, How miserable I find it, and how it seems so interminable. This winter, I find myself thinking instead That every day, every hour, every minute Brings us just that much closer to spring. We all experience...
    Poetry | By Tess Baumberger | January 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Advent, Agnosticism, Atheism, Brokenness, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Despair, Earth-Centered, Humanism, New Year, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness, Winter Solstice / Yule
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  • Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see, to...
    Poetry | By Lisel Mueller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Calling, Reverence, Vision
    Worship element
  • There’s a movement that attracts millions of people and encourages them to become their best selves—but it’s not a church.
    Poetry | By Doug Muder | September 22, 2013 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Culture, Personal Inspiration, UU Theology
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  • A mélange of garbage / and triumphant blooms.
    Poetry | By Peg Duthie | August 19, 2013 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Growth, Nature, Personal Inspiration
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  • I'll return to that time and space that was my home.
    Poetry | By Ruth McKendree Treen | November 18, 2012 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration, Personal Stories
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  • Do not sit alone in the dark.
    Poetry | By Om Prakash | September 9, 2012 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • I watch the trees / as seasons cycle.
    Poetry | By Aytac Aydogan Edwards | January 23, 2012 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.
    Poetry | By Mary Oliver | January 9, 2011 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Nature, Personal Inspiration
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  • You can try to strangle light.
    Poetry | By Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno | November 29, 2009 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • He has been here ever since.
    Poetry | By Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno | August 23, 2009 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • Guess who I am.
    Poetry | By Yvonne Seon | March 22, 2009 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • Natural moments in seventeen syllables.
    Poetry | By Tom Stites | October 28, 2007 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • A mother reaches across the generations.
    Poetry | By Jean Wyrick | October 15, 2006 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration, Personal Stories
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  • Poetry | By Mary Oliver | June 25, 2006 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • Poetry | By Lee Robinson | May 7, 2006 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • The genesis of a ritual.
    Poetry | By Karen Lee Shelley | April 9, 2006 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration, Spiritual Practice
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  • Poetry | By Linda Buckmaster | March 19, 2006 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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  • A sequence of poems about Africa.
    Poetry | By Everett Hoagland | June 30, 2004 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Personal Inspiration
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