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  • This body is not what it was I got shin splints from running today Ten years ago all I’d get was smelly feet My back aches just from sitting these days In my youth, all my pain came from climbing trees This body is not what it was Not some alien thing thrust upon me So clumsy, always in the way I...
    Poetry | By Kayla Parker | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Aging, Body, Change, Direct Experience
    Worship element
  • (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
    Worship element
  • 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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