Miracles

Beautiful orange sunset over a deep blue ocean. — Tapestry is Sunsetting

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By Adrianne Ross, Chris Jablonski, Miriam Smith, Susan Lawrence

This eight-session program invites a prolonged encounter with awe and wonder. Stories from our Unitarian Universalist Sources and hands-on activities engage a wide age span of participants to discern miracles, experience and express awe and wonder, and discover their own agency for miracle-making. Participants make a uniquely Unitarian Universalist inquiry—a religious search which simultaneously embraces the awesome truth of a miracle’s mystery and the “how and why” of rational explanation. Participants explore different kinds of miracles, from the awesome, ordered beauty of Earth and all life on it, to their own capacity to transform themselves and others to bring forth love and justice.

Acknowledgements
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UUA Tapestry of Faith Core Team …
Introduction
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The Program Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. — Thich Nhat Hanh A miracle: An unexpected event or revelation that brings an outcome one has hoped…
Program Structure
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Miracles can be implemented in whole or in part, but we suggest you use the eight sessions in the order provided. The program’s flow takes participants from conversation about miracles to observation of miraculous moments, to a range of activities that engage them as agents of miraculous personal…
Implementation
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The eight-week program invites you to creatively integrate Miracles into your congregation’s religious education and programmatic calendar in a variety of ways, such as: Offer Miracles in summer, when weekly attendance tends to dip. The sessions would provide a vibrant, interesting experience for…
Before You Start
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Once you have chosen a leadership team, an age group, and a schedule for the program, sort out the program logistics and identify connections you can make with the wider congregation and community. Meeting space and other requirements While the Miracles program will work in any meeting space,…
Resources for the Miracles Program
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Sharing the Journey: Small Group Ministry with Youth by Jessica York and Helen Zidowecki (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2009) …
Facilitator Feedback Form
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We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations….
Participant Feedback Form
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We welcome your critique of this program, as well as your suggestions. Thank you for your feedback! Your input improves programs for all of our congregations….
Session 1: Naming Miracles
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Session 2: The Miracle of Close Attention
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Session 3: The Miracle of Transformation
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Session 4: It’s All in the Timing
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Session 5: A Miracle Inside
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Session 6: The Miracle of Social Change
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Session 7: Miracles We Can Make
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Session 8: Still a Mystery
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Stories in Miracles
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Handouts in Miracles
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Leader Resources in Miracles
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