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O Source of life and love, Torn by desires to sit back and to enjoy the beauty of the world— to savor the blue skies and gentle days— and by desires to recast the world and to fight its evils— to save the world... Torn by all those things that hurt and confuse and make no sense amid beauty—...Meditation | By Bruce Southworth | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Beauty, Choice, Community, Faith, Hope, Integrity, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Enter into the communion of flowers with joyful hearts. Enter with reverent thoughts. It has taken long months beneath cold ground for these flowers to prepare their blooming. It has taken each of us long times of growth through sorrow and joy to prepare for our living now. The blooming season is...Meditation | By Elizabeth M Strong | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Earth, Flower Communion, Limitations, Nature, TranscendenceWorship element -
Emmanuel means "God is with us." Who is your Emmanuel? Who is your "God is with us," the one you were promised, the one you have been waiting for? For the ancient prophet Isaiah, he was a boy soon to be born who would guide the people of Judah back to peace and harmony with God....Meditation | By Sarah Movius Schurr | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Beauty, Belief, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Direct Experience, God, Listening, Searching, Tradition, Transcendence, Winter Solstice / Yule, WonderWorship element -
We summon ourselves from the demands and delights of the daily round: from the dirty dishes and unwaxed floors; from unmowed grass, and untrimmed bushes; from all incompletenesses and not-yet-startednesses; from the unholy and the unresolved....Opening | By Gordon B McKeeman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), Beauty, Calling, Hope, Sacred, Unitarian Universalism, VisionWorship element
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We gather here to worship: to seek the truth, to grow in love, to join in service; to celebrate life's beauty and find healing for its pain; to honor our kinship with each other and with the earth; to create a more compassionate world, beginning with ourselves; to wonder at the mystery that gave ...Opening | By Gary Kowalski | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Beauty, Courage, Earth, Healing, Listening, Mystery, Searching, Unitarian Universalism, WisdomWorship element
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Poem Try to Praise the Mutilated World , by Adam Zagajewski (translated from the Polish) Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the...Homily | By Kathleen Hepler | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Judaism, Responsibility, Spirituality, Unity, Wonder, Yom KippurWorship element
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Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see, to...Poetry | By Lisel Mueller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Calling, Reverence, VisionWorship element
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The strength of the Earth is the stones And the same is the source of our bones. The Water flows across the ground And within our blood. The Air blows around the world And brings us our breath. The Fire streams forth from the Sun without ceasing And sustains our lives. By these elements We are...Meditation | By Eric Williams | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Beauty, Body, Earth, Earth-Centered, Gratitude, Interdependence, Nature, Paganism, Reverence, Sacred, StrengthWorship element
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Each of us is a flower, with a delicate beauty uniquely our own. We may be like sunflowers, turning always towards the light. May our lives bloom like the flowers. We may be like night-blooming cereus, only displaying our fragrant petals when it is dark and we think no one can see. May our lives...Meditation | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Individualism, NatureWorship element
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Utility | December 2, 2014 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Environment, Happiness, Hope, Nature, Reason, Spirituality, Transcendence, Unitarian Universalism, WonderCurriculum page -
Utility | November 8, 2014 | For Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Diversity, Earth-Centered, Identity, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism, Respect, Unitarian Universalism, WorthCurriculum page -
Adapted from a story by Janeen K. Grohsmeyer in her book Lamp in Every Corner: Our UU Storybook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004). Used with permission. In the city of Prague, in the land of Czechoslovakia, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty three, there was a church....Story | October 20, 2014 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Love Surrounds UsTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Beauty, Community, Diversity, Flower Communion, Interdependence, Joy, Simplicity, Unitarian UniversalismCurriculum page -
Utility | October 20, 2014 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Environment, Growth, Joy, Mindfulness, Nature, Science, Unitarian Universalism, WonderCurriculum page
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A mother and daughter story about being able to feel good about one's body.Story | April 2, 2014 (reviewed July 2025) | For Youth, Families | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, BodyCurriculum page -
What spiritual power does beauty have? If one thing is beautiful, does that mean that other things are not beautiful?Small Group Ministry Guide | By David Herndon Minister, First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | August 11, 2013 (reviewed April 2025) | For Adults | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: BeautyPage/Article -
Based on a Santerian story. Special thanks to Lesley Murdoch for her insights to Afro-Caribbean religions. The Orisha are gods that came originally from Nigeria, in West Africa, as part of the Yoruba religion....Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our FaithTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Brokenness, Challenge, Commitment, Community, Courage, Diversity, Indigenous American, Justice, Limitations, Multiculturalism, MulticulturalismCurriculum page
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Utility | July 3, 2013 | From Circle of TreesTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beauty, Connections, Creativity, Direct Experience, Gratitude, Nature, Reverence, Sacred, SpiritualityCurriculum page -
In a time not so long ago and in a place not so far away, there lived a boy named Arthur Lismer. Arthur always had a pencil in his pocket, because Arthur loved to draw. He drew clouds. He drew birds. He drew flowers. He drew many beautiful things. And he drew pictures of stones....Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of WonderTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beauty, Creativity, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarianism, Vision, Wonder, WorthCurriculum page -
Utility | May 17, 2013 | For Grades K-1 | From World of WonderTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beauty, Connections, Direct Experience, Earth, Nature, Reverence, Vision, WonderCurriculum page -
In the land of Australia, where koalas climb high in eucalyptus trees and kangaroos bound across grassy plains on great big feet, a baby bird pecked his way out of his shell. His mother called him Kejaro, and she brought him good fruit to eat. Every day, for dessert, she brought him bugs. His...Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of WonderTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beauty, Birth, Creativity, Earth-Centered, Home, Nature, Relationships, Success, SufferingCurriculum page