Stephen M. Shick

Stephen Shick is Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson, MA, he also served our congregations in Haverhill, MA and Portland, ME.Stephen was founding director of the Unitarian Universalist Peace Network and former director of U.S. programs for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and help to establish Community Ministries with in our association. Stephen has taught the art of public speaking to UU ministers and social activist for over 25 years He is the author of Speaking by Heart: The Spiritual Practice of Unscripted Public Speaking andJustice Seekers Consider the Lilies, a collection of meditations .

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I understand history as possibility...that could also stop being a possibility. —Paulo Freire The winds of extinction sing a mournful song in the rustling grass, where the bobwhite drums and the meadowlark's melody is vanishing. The winds of extinction sing a mournful song in the dark forest...

Poetry | By Stephen M. Shick | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Despair, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Unitarian Universalism, Climate Justice

Spirit of Life, God of Love, who are we to know how you moved over the waters when all was new? We were not there when you parted them and formed dry land. We didn't hear you cry with joy when earth gave birth to life, or when love began to grow in the human heart....

Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Humility, Nature, Responsibility, Stewardship, Climate Justice

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? —Kabir Suppose you cried a thousand years for a child who died when she drank bad water. Suppose you organized a great movement to clean the water. Suppose you carried the first filled glass to the...

Poetry | By Stephen M. Shick | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Interdependence, International, Relationships, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Climate Justice

Spirit of Life, God of Love, grant me the courage to love boldly in the face of my greatest fears. Grow me in your wisdom and let my actions speak when silence threatens justice and indifference disturbs peace....

Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Courage, Fear, Humility, Justice, Love, Peace, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom

Into the dwelling place of togetherness, we come to collect remnants of hope.

Responsive Reading | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Hope, Justice, Peace, Solidarity, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Vision

Spirit of Life, God of Love, I am entwined in your delicate web of mutuality. The life energy that makes me reach for the sun also moves me to become wrapped, like the strong bittersweet vine and the delicate sweet pea, around those I meet and love. Here in the tangle of my daily life I feel your...

Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Beauty, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Intimacy, Love, Nature, Climate Justice

Here, I will be discovered and lost: Here, I will, perhaps, be stone and silence. —Pablo Neruda Someday, out there, on a day like this in a place I will never see, where the clearing winds always come after the storm, I will arrive nameless on a distant memory carrying with me all the best I gave...

Poetry | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Identity, Love, Meaning, Purpose, Truth

Spirit of my longing and lonely heart, help me travel through the barren borderlands that separate me from others. Teach me to willingly explore relationships with those who frighten or threaten me, grant me the courage to risk confidently my own comforts, that I might make others more comfortable.

Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Compassion, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability

Early spring awakens memories of a deeper cold and hopes of a warmer wetness, sprouting seeds and budding branches. Gray trees on gray sky screen eyes from all that lies waiting: the color of a million flowers, the feathers of migrating songbirds, the blossoming smiles of friends. Soon we will no...

Meditation | By Stephen M. Shick | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Abundance, Autumnal Equinox, Beginnings, Communion (Christian), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Journey, Nature, Transcendence, Transformation, Vernal Equinox

Those who want to move the world in the direction of equality and lasting harmony must become, and learn to think of themselves as, forces of history.

Reflection | By Stephen M. Shick | September 13, 2009 | From Spirit
Tagged as: Personal Inspiration

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