Life Transition

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  Becoming:
  A Spiritual Guide for Navigating Adulthood

  Kayla Parker

  From Skinner House Books

  A spiritual companion for young adults and all who live amid transitions and tensions. Dozens of carefully selected readings address themes...

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Facing Death with Life

• Facing Death with Life

  By Kate R. Walker, Lee Ann Wester

  A curriculum that offers personal reflection, learning, and spiritual growth focused on the topic of death and dying. It brings death, dying, and grief into the light of our daily lives, and invites participants to experience death and dying as a healthy part of life.
• Workshop 1: Talking about Death
• Workshop 2: Finding Our Personal Views of Death
• Workshop 3: Beliefs and Practices – What Happens When We Die?
• Workshop 4: Bereavement
• Workshop 5: Children and Death
• Workshop 6: Suicide and The Right To Die
• Workshop 7: Preparation for Death
• Workshop 8: Sharing New Insights

Hindsight, Humor, and Hope

• Workshop 1: Elderhood – A Work in Progress
• Workshop 2: Solitude and Connection – The Stuff of Life
• Workshop 3: Diving Through the Layers – The Fabric of My Life
• Workshop 4: Creating New Visions – Building on Experience
• Workshop 5: Making Friends with Mortality
• Workshop 6: Hindsight, Humor, and Hope

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  Waiting For Now

  By Mandie McGlynn

  Stones of justice have been tossed in the lake but their ripples have not yet arrived.
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  The End Is the Beginning

  By Katie Gelfand

  We call forth the life of our faith by igniting our chalice. This spark of new beginnings invites us into a sacred space to reflect where...
• Immortality

  By Leslie Takahashi

  In the daily weave of our lives, those who have died are still strong, guiding threads. Theirs is the golden glimmer or perhaps the...
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  May You Never Thirst

  By Erica Baron

  May you never thirst. May your body and your spirit always have what they need. When you are in need of refreshment, or new life, may the...
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  A Blessing for the Divorced or Separated

  By Meg Riley

  For all who left a relationship in order to save your heart, may your own heartbeat be your blessing. Its rhythm, its particular kinships, its unique rhythm. May you know your own heart as God's blessing... May you walk toward more love, knowing that you walk squarely in God's sight and with God's blessing.
• Transgender Re-naming Ceremony

  By Laura Bogle

  We are called by the principles of our faith to embrace and affirm the inherent worth of dignity of all people. Some of us affirm quite...
• Already Broken: A Buddhist Perspective on the Season of Spring

  By James Ishmael Ford

  It was Spring. At long last there was no hint of snow on the ground. It was even warm, sort of. Birds and bugs had, at last, returned to...
• Lemonade Adventure

  By Naomi King

  Once there was and once there was not a town on the edge of the swamp in the sultry summer weather of far south Florida, between the...
• Ritual for the New Year

  By Joan Kahn-Schneider

  We pause now on the edge of the New Year— An artificial beginning to be sure—but still a time to reflect. Like Janus, the god for whom...
• Effigy Burning

  By Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, Young Adult Group

  Overview: New Year Ritual or Transition Ritual Theme or Background: Burn an effigy to welcome the new year, or any major transition...