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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Direct Experience or its children.

  • A Progress Pride flag on a flagpole, with a blue sky and bright sun behind it.

    Queer joy is resistance.

    Reflection | By cristy cardinal | November 23, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Community, Direct Experience, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • A broad, green leaf held by a Black woman's hands. A small tattoo of a heart is on her wrist.

    Love is reaching through the generations with expectations that I live through challenging times.

    Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | November 2, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Earth, Fall, Family, Generations, Healing, Love, Presence, Worship
  • A crow, wings outstretched, soars over a beautiful beach.

    You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.

    Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Awe, Connections, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, God, Interdependence, Love, Mental Health, Mystery, Wonder

  • Can I love all of me, even the peevish parts?

    Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Buddhism, Compassion, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Love, Mental Health

  • I choose to believe in the God who makes me kinder.

    Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Depression, Direct Experience, God, Imagination, Mental Health, Unitarian Universalism

  • Our family secret is soul-sucking depression.

    Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Depression, Direct Experience, Family, Healing, Hope, Love, Mental Health, Secular, Truth, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • A few dog paw prints in the sand

    My vet said, “She's telling you thank you for letting her go.”

    Reflection | By Ndidi Achebe | October 12, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Animal Memorial, Animals, Death, Direct Experience, Grief, Letting Go, Love, Secular, Worship
  • A vibrant colourful sunset or sunrise sky over limestone pavement landscape and a wind-bent English Hawthorn tree at Twisleton Scar, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK

    Coming out is vulnerable, intimate, and holy.

    Homily | By Heather McDuffee | September 27, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #Pride, Acceptance, Christianity, Coming Out, Courage, Direct Experience, Family, Friendship, God, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, National Coming Out Day, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Seen from the chest up, a side view of three generations: a Black son, father, and grandfather standing side by side.

    I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

    Reflection | By Glen Thomas Rideout | September 14, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • A Black woman in a swimsuit smiles with closed eyes as she floats in a swimming pool on a bright yellow pool ring.

    Pleasure is one of the ways we know when we are free.

    Reading | By Adrienne Maree Brown | August 5, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Body, Direct Experience, Humanism, Joy, Secular, Self-Care, Sexuality, WorshipWeb, Worship