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  • “The Magic Vase” was adapted from "The Magic Vase" as retold by Margaret Silf in One Hundred Wisdom Stories from Around the World, compiled by Margaret Silf (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2003), 41-42. Used by permission, all rights reserved. There was once a poor family who lived in a drab...
    Story | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Creating Home
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Depression, Direct Experience, Family, Home, Mystery, Teamwork
  • After many years in a congregation, she’d had enough. Knowing the people as well as she did, she knew that what they said on Sunday and what they did on Monday did not always equate....
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Adults | From Spirit in Practice
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Balance, Beauty, Belief, Change, Commitment, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Connections, Direct Experience
  • This story is abridged from one published by Hans Christian Anderson in 1844 and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872. (Hans Christian Anderson: Fairy Tales and Stories).It was lovely summer weather in the country. A duck was on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch. At length one shell...
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Multigenerational | From Wisdom from the Hebrew Scriptures
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Animals, Awe, Beauty, Dignity, Direct Experience, Identity, Inclusion, Joy, Kindness, Oppression, Relationships
  • Reprinted from Life Tides by permission of Sarah Tarbox. Copyright (C) 1993. Published by Skinner House Books, an imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Hollow bones, streamlined feathers, and wings shaped to push aside the viscosity of air are not what make birds fly. Birds let go of...
    Story | By Elizabeth Tarbox | October 27, 2011 | For Adults | From Spirit of Life
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Animals, Awe, Beauty, Brokenness, Courage, Direct Experience, Fear, Freedom, Hope, Joy, Letting Go
  • Based on a tale told in the 1700s by the Jewish teacher, Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, Maggid of Dubno....
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Love Will Guide Us
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Choice, Creativity, Direct Experience, Discernment, Failure, Judaism, Limitations, Love, Redemption, Transformation, Wonder