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  • Wondrous Gift of Life, thanks for this day and this gathering in our beautiful diversity and devoted generosity! We revel in our blessings for and from this holy life! Washed and refreshed in such grace, we celebrate the joys of this life....
    Prayer | By Naftali King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Calling, Death, Despair, Disaster, Earth, Environment, Healing, Nature, Suffering
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  • Spirit of Truth and Justice Hear us as we ask that you hold the collective anxiety that permeates this fear-filled situation. This is a call to arms. Arms that will hold broken hearts, and elated hearts arms that wrap themselves around a body, beaten and disfigured in truth and metaphorically…...
    Prayer | By Marta I. Valentín | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Commitment, Immigration, Justice, Solidarity
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  • In the spirit of love and compassion, let us pray. Spirit of Life, gods of many names, be in our hearts and minds as we come together today to pray for our world. We come today as people of privilege, grateful for this blessing, and hopeful for our future. Let us know that each from our own...
    Prayer | By Claudene (Deane) Oliva | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Interdependence, Seven Principles, Solidarity, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Unity
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  • Like most traumatic scars, the ones that are found in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are permanent: reminders of the terrible damage human beings can inflict. Similar scars can be found in the hearts and souls of people around the world who understand this terror: scars of grief, sadness, fear and even...
    Prayer | By William G. Sinkford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Direct Experience, Hiroshima Day, Interdependence, Multiculturalism, Peace, Purpose, War
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  • In this familiar place, listen: to the sounds of breathing, creaking chairs, shuffling feet, clearing throats, and sighing all around Know that each breath, movement, the glance meant for you or intercepted holds a life within it....
    Prayer | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Community, Connections, Presence, Silence, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Let us bless the Earth, And all that is steady and firm. Let us bless the Sky, And all that is open and filled with light. Let us bless their union, Holy and without ceasing. Let us bless their children, The bounty of field and forest, Stones, plants, animals, and all living things....
    Prayer | By Eric Williams | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Healing, Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas, Lammas, Nature, Paganism, Relationships, Summer Solstice, Vernal Equinox
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  • Holy Spirit, God of Ages and so many names, we gather once again to rejoice in the light offered to the world by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His walk on this earth was a gift to generations, and today we give thanks for that gift. We know that we are called together today not simply to...
    Prayer | By Audette Fulbright Fulson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Caring, History, Human Rights, Justice, Kindness, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity
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  • Dear God, May I be kind, Strong and brave, Joyful, useful, loving, Honest and healthy.
    Prayer | By Meg Barnhouse | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Children's Sabbath, Courage, God, Health, Kindness, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Strength
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  • For food in a world where many walk in hunger For faith in a world where many walk in fear For friends in a world where many walk alone We give you thanks, O God. Amen.
    Prayer | By Anonymous | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Children's Sabbath, Food, Friendship, God, Gratitude, Table Grace
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  • Holy One who has given us the breath of life, Today we remember To breathe deeply To rest To take in To pause before we act… And then to take in another deep breath poised on the edge And risk jumping in Risk taking action Risk speaking up Risk using the gifts we have been given So that at the en...
    Prayer | By Tamara Lebak | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Courage, Direct Experience, Purpose, Trust, Vulnerability
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  • God of many names, you who have searched what is hidden within us and who knows us to our core: Our intentions, our wounds, our aspirations and our dreams. You who is familiar with all our ways, even before a word is on our tongue you know it completely. Where can we go from your Spirit?...
    Prayer | By Tamara Lebak | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Direct Experience, God, Immanence, Judaism
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  • God of many names, You who has endowed us with the inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Let us remember this day that in this country there is no national religion, There is no superior race There is no preferable gender or orientation....
    Prayer | By Tamara Lebak | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Equity, Freedom, Justice, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular
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  • We ask to have clarity of Spirit come forth into our lives with the power of a mighty wind
    Prayer | By Tamara Lebak | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Commitment, Compassion, Courage, Direct Experience, Love, Pentecost, Purpose
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  • Spirit of Life and Love, God of grace and mercy, Source of all things that changes us as we cannot change ourselves, We gather this morning as a covenanted community of spiritual seekers, coming together in a rainbow of diversity united by our conviction that the wounds of this world can be heale...
    Prayer | By Krista Taves | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Letting Go, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism
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  • It has been a long struggle, and our work is far from over. As we go forth, may we be empowered by the Spirit of Hope and Healing, whose one name is God, and whose other name is Love. May the blessings of Love be upon us and within us: May Love’s truth be upon our vision. May Love’s wisdom dwell...
    Prayer | By Maureen Killoran | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Healing, Health, Illness, Strength, Unitarian Universalism
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  • As the rain has washed our land this season, may we enter this morning with hearts washed clean of complaints or bitterness. May we begin this morning by intentionally relaxing the tensions we carry, the strains of those things we cannot abandon, the responsibilities of our lives. As the sun has...
    Prayer | By Maureen Killoran | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Awe, Connections, Earth, Earth-Centered, Peace, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Spirit of all blessing, be with us in the ordinariness of our days. May hope’s light guard us and keep cynicism from our hearts. May the energy of laughter build endurance for the dark times of our lives. May creativity’s vision grant the possibility of seeing old relationships with new eyes.
    Prayer | By Maureen Killoran | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Hope, Humility, Searching, Strength
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  • For dragonflies, butterflies, Caterpillars on leaves, Lizards, wild turkeys, and tigers and deer, We give thanks! For sunset and seashells And starfish and sand, Octopus, jellyfish, and hammerhead shark, We give thanks!...
    Prayer | By Gail Forsyth-Vail | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Children, Earth, Earth-Centered, Gratitude, Nature
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  • Spirit of life, help me remember that all animals belong. Bless the bats for eating mosquitoes. Bless the crows and buzzards for cleaning up the dead, and bless even the snakes, who keep the mice out of the rice. Each of them is important. And each does good in its own way. Blessed be.
    Prayer | By Eliza Blanchard | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Earth-Centered, Purpose, Service
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  • Dear God, hear and bless Your beasts and singing birds; And guard with tenderness Small things that have no words...
    Prayer | By Anonymous | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Awe, Children's Sabbath, Compassion, God, Nature
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