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There was a period in my life when, within three months, all my major relationships changed. The most joyous of these was getting married; Sarah and I had dated for three and a half years, and I proposed to her at our holiday party....Reading | By Carey McDonald | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Direct Experience, Letting Go, Marriage, Transformation, Young AdultsWorship element -
For sleepless nights awaiting the curfew-breakers For anxious hours as a driving instructor For hours spent on sidelines, cheering And watching school plays, sometimes “resting our eyes,” For the pressures of bread-winning And “wait ‘til your father gets home.” For teaching moments and...Chalice Lighting | By Peter Friedrichs | April 16, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Children, Direct Experience, Father's Day, Fathers, Parents, Prophetic Words & Deeds, RelationshipsWorship element -
Fill me with anxiety, O Life! Electrify me, make me nervous Beyond any staid concern For those things which challenge Placid, flaccid ways, anachronisms of being. Keep me tense, a-tiptoe, Blinking at the novel, Reaching out for those things Just beyond my fingertips; So that I may make patterns,...Poetry | By Arthur Graham | March 23, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Change, Choice, Transformation, WonderWorship element
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The Rev. Lindi Ramsden, a Unitarian Universalist minister long at the forefront of work for human rights and environmental justice, wrote these blessings—"beatitudes"—for people who work for positive change. They are part of of our collection of readings, reflections, and prayers on WorshipWeb.Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | March 17, 2015 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Change, Justice, Playfulness, Relationships, WisdomPage/Article -
In a worship service, the congregation presented farewell gifts to the outgoing Director of Religious Education/Exploration (DRE) before the following: MINISTER: In (season, year), this congregation and NAME entered into a formal/unspoken covenant with one another. NAME agreed to step out of her...Ritual | By Tess Baumberger | March 11, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Change, Children, Gratitude, Leadership, Letting Go, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Service, Teacher Recognition, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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I am one of those people who love to make New Year’s resolutions. Why not create a vital, remodeled persona, new and improved? Just write down all the things you want to accomplish, all the projects you want to complete, all the character improvements you want to make, and all the skills you want...Meditation | By Barbara Merritt | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Change, Grace, Love, Progress, Transformation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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My husband, the physics teacher, receives a weekly magazine called Science News. A recent cover story, in bold letters, riveted my attention and I snatched it: “Controlling Chaos.” Now, that’s a practical theology! My hopes soared. Here, in concise scientific prose, was the potential solution...Meditation | By Barbara Merritt | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Peace, Science, Stress, Unitarian Universalism, WorkWorship element
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Life does not call us merely to do over and over again what we have already done; nor does it call us to act out, as puppets, parts already assigned to us. No. In the midst of a situation which is itself ever changing, we are free to bring into realization new relationships of understanding and...Quote | By Frank O. Holmes | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Character, Choice, Courage, Freedom, Growth, IntegrityWorship element
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Go forth Because we are always going forth from somewhere Going from our homes, our childhoods Going from our cities and countries Going from innocence to experience to enlightenment Going into mystery and questions Going into the desert Getting to the other side....Poetry | By Rick Hoyt | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Aging, Change, Home, Letting Go, Mystery, Sacred, Unitarian Universalism, WisdomWorship element -
To outgrow the past but not extinguish it; To be progressive but not raw, Free but not mad, critical but not sterile, expectant but not deluded; To be scientific but not to live on formulas that cut us off from life; To hear amidst clamor the pure, deep tones of the spirit; To seek the wisdom tha...Poetry | By William Laurence Sullivan | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Aging, Change, Character, Growth, Meaning, Peace, Secular, WisdomWorship element
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Who cast a spell over my world? Who opened the doors, stirred the crowd of possibilities, put gold dust in my dreams causing my life to turn? O Fate, O Love, O Spirit, O God: is it true that all good things must end? Or have you set me on a path of meaning Not luck Of clarity Not magic And this...Poetry | By Angela Herrera | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Direct Experience, God, Grace, Letting Go, Meaning, Unitarian Universalism, WonderWorship element
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This body is not what it was I got shin splints from running today Ten years ago all I’d get was smelly feet My back aches just from sitting these days In my youth, all my pain came from climbing trees This body is not what it was Not some alien thing thrust upon me So clumsy, always in the way I...Poetry | By Kayla Parker | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Aging, Body, Change, Direct ExperienceWorship element
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(adapted from the original) I say that it touches us that our blood is sea water and our tears are salt, that the seed of our bodies is scarcely different from the same cells in a seaweed, and that the stuff of our bones is like the coral. I say that the tide rolls in on us, whether we like it or...Poetry | By Marni Harmony | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Body, Change, Nature, ReverenceWorship element
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Once upon a time I was Now I am Some day I will become Once there was And now there is Soon there will be And some day there surely shall be Once upon a time we were Now we are And some day (Hallelujah!) we shall surely become Amen Amen...Poetry | By Margaret Williams Braxton | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Change, Character, Direct Experience, Growth, ReverenceWorship element
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My high school years were speckled with trust walks. In my Unitarian Universalist youth group at the First UU Congregation of Ann Arbor, each year, the incoming freshmen were given blindfolds and a partner. They were led out into the dark, with only hands on their shoulders to guide them. When...Reading | By Rianna Johnson-Levy | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Autumnal Equinox, Beauty, Change, Death, Direct Experience, Growth, Letting Go, Trust, Unitarian Universalism, Youth/TeensWorship element
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May we honor and hold gently our past. May we live fully our present. May we hope toward and build our future, Living our mission [insert congregation's mission statement]: "To be a spiritual community To welcome all To nurture one another To work for justice And to care for the earth." May these...Benediction | By Karen Lewis Foley | February 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Building/Space Dedication, Caring, Challenge, Change, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Environment, Faith, Hospitality, Joy, Justice, Secular, Service, Seven Principles, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWorship element
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The question is not, “What happens when we die?” Nobody really knows. The real question is, “What happens when we stop living?” The stoicism we face on a daily basis is a symptom of a larger illness called a dually-dulled life. Our lives can be hypnotized by the monotonous commutes,...Reading | By Nathan C. Walker | February 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Belief, Calling, Challenge, Change, Character, Direct Experience, Easter, Gratitude, Homecoming / Ingathering, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Respect, Trust, Unitarian Universalism, Worth, Yom KippurWorship element
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Spirit of Life and Love, Be with us in this time, as people suffer, as parents grieve, as violence rages. Be with us who feel the pain of loss, who feel anger at injustice....Prayer | By Christian Schmidt | February 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Change, Disaster, Hope, Suffering, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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For those of us who follow the Christian tradition, now is the season of advent, a time of waiting. And whether or not we are Christian I believe that Unitarian Universalists and progressives of any or no faith have something to learn from this Christian season of advent this year. Because we are...Reading | By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | February 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Activism, Advent, Anti-Oppression, Change, Christianity, Direct Experience, Empathy, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Today we walk toward the dayspring breaking through, the Easter day of joy.Opening | By Daniel Chesney Kanter | February 17, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Change, Christianity, Hope, Joy, Palm Sunday, Power, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element