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Litany Response: “A Day!” Do we really apprehend what a day is? Do we feel its importance? Do we know its capacity? A day! It has risen upon us from the great depth of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of Life and Light spoken into being by the...Reading | By Naftali King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Purpose, TranscendenceWorship element
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Somos una gente del arco iris. We are a rainbow people. The rainbow is an arc of light brilliantly displaying all the colors of the visible spectrum, all the colors that combine to make the astounding beauty of our world, all the colors that combine to reflect the astounding diversity of human...Reading | By Naftali King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Diversity, Unitarian Universalism, UnityWorship element
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We know there is great abundance in our world: a great abundance of suffering—of people homeless, hungry, frightened, lonely, in danger, sick, exhausted, and wondering when this abundant suffering shall cease. We know there is great abundance in our world: a great abundance of love—of people...Reading | By Naftali King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Change, TransformationWorship element
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I am part of a religious community because we promise not to reduce each other to terrible labels, not to strip each other of our humanity, not to ascribe levels of worthiness to one another.Reading | By Naftali King | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Dignity, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, WorthWorship element -
We give thanks for the needs of our community that remind us of our common humanity. We give thanks for the needs of humanity that help us grow into the compassion of the Buddha, the love of Jesus, and the charity of Mohammed....Reading | By Claudia A Ramisch | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: GratitudeWorship element
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Am I a guest here. Here in this House. Are you? Are we guests here. Here in this House. And, whose House do we inhabit? In the small world of our lives the borders between us: easements, fences, gates, hedges—serve to delineate, to separate us. To remind us of where my property begins and ends.Reading | By Alicia R. Forde | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, History, Immigration, Immigration, Indigenous Peoples Day, International, Responsibility, SecularWorship element -
Because there have been times when shame has crushed our ability to be wholehearted We let go of who we ought to be and embrace who we are. Because we have not always had the courage to be imperfect We let go of who we ought to be and embrace who we are....Reading | By Dawn Skjei Cooley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Shame, VulnerabilityWorship element
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Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, "Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. "Our sons shall not be...Reading | By Julia Ward Howe | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Children, Mother's Day, Parents, PeaceWorship element
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As we gather to celebrate In this time of beginnings In the season of birth and rebirth, We hear the heart beat of Mother Earth With the spring time comes the blossoming of the plants A time of exploration and creation And the emerging patterns of life We hear the heart beat of Mother Earth Let u...Reading | By Addae Ama Kraba | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebWorship element
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Every third Tuesday, I am a Buddhist I empty my mind and lighten my heart And try to let go of attachments Every other Friday, I am a Christian. I look for the least of these And try to love God and my neighbor The full moon of the month finds me Wiccan; I honor the dual nature of God And find my...Reading | By Joanna Fontaine Crawford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Buddhism, Freedom, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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The tale I am about to tell is a based on a true story. It is a tale woven from the stories of those who remember. It is a tale of wayward travels, a tale of the stranded tourist. Some of the people who recounted the events described it as a Happy Accident....Reading | By Carie J Johnsen | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Connections, Hospitality, InclusionWorship element
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Singing the Journey uses our Six Sources as organizing themes, as shown in the sections of the Table of Contents. “The Living Tradition we share draws from many sources,” so come with me now on a short spiritual romp through these six sections as I draw only from the song titles in each section...Reading | By Jaco ten Hove | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Playfulness, Reverence, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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I [do not] mean to present myself as some kind of bodhisattva of compassion. However, in my better moments—at least in my more conscious moments—while I’m eating, I do try to imagine the lives and even the deaths of the creatures who nourish me. I try to think of the freedom and exhilaration...Reading | By Lillian Nye | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, Animals, Body, Earth Day, Ethics, Food, Food Justice, Nature, Thanksgiving, Unitarian Universalism, WorkWorship element