Direct Experience

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  • A view of the starry sky at night, straight up, through the silhouette of trees around the edges.
    With Love As My Guide
    From WorshipWeb
    Amidst the swirl of life's challenges, fears, and even moments of crisis, I make time to gaze at the night sky to see the vastness there, And to remembe...
  • Sitting cross-legged on a bed, a person holds a guitar and appears to sing. Next to them is a musical keyboard and an open laptop.
    Keep Singing
    From Braver/Wiser
    I experience the creative impulse as living just under the surface of the daily grind: tugging; imploring, When do we all get to sing together again?
  • a child smiles up in wonder amid multiple vertical strings of light
    Open to Joy
    From Braver/Wiser
    There is still and always joy in this world, but it usually comes right alongside the struggle.
  • A whisk and dustpan filled with dry twigs, fallen spruce needles, and broken Christmas ornaments
    Worthy of Beauty
    From Braver/Wiser
    This is a "love saves" story.
  • A string of Christmas lights rests on bright pink branches of a Christmas tree that's obviously artificial.
    More Than a Bike
    From WorshipWeb
    Make sure, both at Christmastime and in other times, that you ask for that which you really want.
  • The Weight of Privilege
    From WorshipWeb
    The person who enjoys privilege always knows less about the person who lives under the weight of that privilege than the people who are actually under it.
  • Swimmers in the waves of the sea look to a pink sky, where a murmuration of starlings forms a striking shape.
    The Eternal, Calling
    From Braver/Wiser
    The wilderness alongside every moment holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.
  • The Statue of Liberty, as seen from behind and from the waist up, against a grey sky.
    Day Zero
    From Braver/Wiser
    Uncertain as the world feels right now, love will bear whatever lies ahead.
  • A black person holds a jagged piece of mirror, looking into it, as the camera captures the reflection oftheir eye.
    Human Beauty and Resilience
    From WorshipWeb
    I do not believe the acts of oppressors are my people's shame.
  • Birmingham church bombing
    Every Place Is a Battleground
    From WorshipWeb
    I was born nine years after four little girls were killed in Birmingham, Alabama, and two other boys later the same day.