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  • A person with dark skin, wearing denim overalls, is partially seen kneeling on the floor. They are holding a long-handled paintbrush and dabbing yellow paint on a paint palette that rests on the floor, at the level of the camera. They appear to be in the middle of a painting in a studio.
    The freedom to seek, discover, and accept others’ truths is a sweet path to follow.
    Reflection | By Clint Nicely | September 17, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Beauty, Creativity, Discernment, Freedom, Individualism, Personal Stories, Worship
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    Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
    Paperback | By Katy Kelleher | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Beauty, Economic Justice, History, History, Racial Justice, Science
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    This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here.
    Hardcover | By Bruce Handy, Ashleigh Corrin | May 27, 2025 | For Children | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Beauty, Children, Nature, Wonder
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  • From above, a large white salt crystal rests on a light surface next to a bowl filled with pink rose petals. A narrow prism of rainbow light falls directly between the two objects.
    A ritual honoring the story of love in our lives
    Ritual | By Erika Hewitt | May 1, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), All Souls Day, Beauty, Direct Experience, Father's Day, Letting Go, Love, Mother's Day, Parents, Relationships, Spiritual Practice, Transformation, Valentine's Day, Vulnerability, Worship
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  • A small flowering plant (Phacelia neglecta) on a reddish rock in the desert outside Quartzsite, Arizona. It has four or five leaves on its small stem, and a single blossom with five pale purple and white petals.
    Improbably, the wind-blown seed found its way here, to a long, beautiful stretch of land, but one that was hot, dry, and arid.…
    Poetry | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | March 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Challenge, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Resilience, Transformation, Worship
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  • A close-up of a piece of lapis lazuli. Most of the image is the deep blue of the stone, but there is a large irregularly-shaped area of white on the left side of the photo. Throughout, the stone contains cracks as well as flecks of gold-colored pyrite.
    Some years are hard. Some holidays won’t feel jolly. Some days are best kept In quiet contemplation. But none of that makes this time less holy. None of that makes you less worthy…
    Reading | By Monica Clark-Robinson | February 26, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Brokenness, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Compassion, Fear, Grace, Sacred, Shadow, Truth, Wholeness, Worship, Worth
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    Community Unitarian Universalist Church in Plano, Texas, created banners from the messages of love and support sent from other UUs.
    Feature | By Aija Duelm | January 21, 2025 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Beauty, Community, Creativity, Healing, Imagination, Love, Resilience, Transformation, UU Beliefs
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  • A young orange, brown, and white tabby cat lies on a bed with its eyes closed. The cat is on a light brown fleece blanket, and a pillow with a floral pillowcase is visible behind it. Sunlight rakes in at a low angle and illuminates part of the cat and the blanket.
    Sometimes we awake in the morning, and we’d rather go back to sleep… And then, the first sliver of sunshine may dance across our face.
    Meditation | By Rebekah Savage | December 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Beginnings, Body, Grace, Interdependence, Love, Nature, Worship
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  • A close-up of an outstretched brown-skinned hand, with salt slipping between the fingers and pouring down in a stream. The salt is brightly lit, and stands out clearly from the black background of the photo.
    Spirit of Transformation, may our hearts break open and stretch out to join with the hearts of others who yearn for a freer world…
    Prayer | By AJ van Tine | December 3, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Body, Community, Compassion, Despair, Fear, Grief, Hope, Joy, Transformation, Worship
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  • Rays of sunlight stream down through a break in the cloudy sky, showing green plants and trees on mountains that otherwise look dark.
    Let beauty in. Let beauty in like waves lapping on the shore, covering the beach and soaking the sand like an embrace.
    Opening | By Rebekah Savage | November 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Happiness, Joy, Sacred, Worship
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    “Now and here, in this unlikely, perhaps un-replicated, gorgeous world, this shimmering, sorrowing world, we exist, together … We are here now, and we all belong. Beloved.”
    By Victoria Safford | November 7, 2024 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Beauty, Grief, Hope, Love, Mindfulness, Nourishing the Spirit, Personal Inspiration, Personal Stories, Sacred, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, UU Beliefs, UU Identity, Wonder
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  • Looking from inside a room through a set of four tall arched windows, we see a garden with some tall purple salvia-like flowers. Beyond the garden a wide grassy field stretches to the horizon, where there are trees and hills.
    There is no separation, here, of the sacred from the profane. No setting apart from the natural world.
    Opening | By Shari Woodbury | October 4, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Body, Connections, Interdependence, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Spring, Worship
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    Learn how to join the conversation about this book, edited by Peggy Gillespie, that can be a catalyst for meaningful action and reflection.
    By Staff Writer | July 1, 2024 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Beauty, Body, Gender, Gender Justice, Happiness, Intersectionality, Joy, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, LGBTQ Issues, News, Personal Stories, Relationships, Wholeness
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  • The patchwork quilt of our theological heritage is torn and fraying in places, and it is stunningly vibrant in others. Some sections have been mended or wholly replaced… As we mature spiritually as a tradition and as people, we develop our capacities to be with the broken and the beautiful…
    Quote | By Sheri Prud’homme | April 25, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #UUAGA, Beauty, Brokenness, Growth, UUA Bylaws, Vision for UUism
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  • In a dark room, white-hot molten metal is poured from a crucible into a mold. We see leather-clad arms holding a long-handled tool to help guide the flow.
    Here we engage in a holy alchemy, finding beauty in the ordinary and life in the present.
    Opening | By Kim Mason | April 6, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Community, Connections, Solidarity, Transformation, Worship
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    Monthly visits from the Omega Dance Company have reinvigorated services and enriched congregants’ experiences.
    By Elaine McArdle | April 3, 2024 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Awe, Beauty, Community, Creativity, Culture, Faith Development, Imagination, Music in Worship, Nourishing the Spirit, Reverence, Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice
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  • A painting of a person's head, in profile. Their brain and the background are both awash in swirls of color, galaxy-like sparks and stars, and cosmic texture.
    People who aren't neurodiverse tend to frame neurodiversity as symptoms of inconvenience to people around them. For me, my ADHD means beauty.
    Reflection | By Quinn Gormley | March 13, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Direct Experience, Identity, Multiculturalism, Psychology, Self-Respect, Wonder, Worship
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  • A mountain range is silhouetted by the orange dawn behind it. Most of the sky is still dark, and time-lapse trails of the paths of the stars show the spinning of the Earth.
    The fulcrum of the Earth tilts toward goodness and I will ride along…
    Reading | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Good, Nature, Transcendence, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
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  • A vibrantly orange and crimson sky, at sunset, with the silhouette of an evergreen tree in front of it.
    Love this world, she whispers.
    Poetry | By Rebecca Ann Parker | November 30, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Beauty, Brokenness, Earth, Love, Wholeness, Winter Solstice / Yule, Wonder, Worship
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    It’s the terrible things that put the beauty in sharp relief.
    By Otto O’Connor | October 1, 2023 | From Life
    Tagged as: Beauty, Belief
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