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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them....Responsive Reading | By Rainer Maria Rilke | August 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Change, Character, Discernment, Doubt, Growth, Humanism, WonderWorship element -
You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, and you help another human being.Quote | By Paul Eisemann | June 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Activism, Caring, Character, Choice, Meaning, Purpose, Relationships, ServiceWorship element -
To prepare for this activity, place umbrellas in the pews. Instruct people to open the umbrellas when the man in the story receives the umbrella. Today we have a very special item in our very special Mystery Box. This item is going to teach us more about sanctuaries....Story | By Tim Atkins | June 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Caring, Character, Children, Empathy, Generosity, InterdependenceWorship element -
Dear God of Sorrow and Love— Are there no places of safety from hate? Are there no sanctuaries from racism? Are there no walls fortified with love that can withstand violence? We pray this day for the nine members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston who were senselessly...Prayer | By Sarah Lammert | June 18, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Character, Direct Experience, Humanism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism, UnityWorship element -
It is the day before the election as I write these lines, and whatever the outcome, I will be glad when it’s over. Some will be elated by the results, and others will feel dejected, but regardless of who wins or loses, our world will still be broken and suffering from ills that government is...Meditation | By Gary Kowalski | June 3, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Brokenness, Character, Freedom, Generations, Governance, Living Our Faith, Politics, Power, Responsibility, SufferingWorship element
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A Celtic pagan story from Ireland, told by Erica Helm Meade in her book of wisdom tales, The Moon in the Well (Peru, Illinois: Open Court/Carus, 2001). Permission pending....Story | May 18, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From MiraclesTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Arrogance, Challenge, Character, Class, Commitment, Conscience, Courage, Food Justice, Generosity, Paganism, Redemption, ThanksgivingCurriculum page -
Utility | May 18, 2015 | From MiraclesTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Awe, Change, Character, Commitment, Compassion, Conscience, Direct Experience, Grace, Growth, Love, TransformationCurriculum page
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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.Quote | By William Ellery Channing | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Identity, PurposeWorship element
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Once upon a time, a mother and her daughter were carrying bags of food to a neighboring village where people were hungry and had no food of their own. The two had to travel a great distance, which made them very tired, so they stopped to rest. As they sat down they heard a voice call out to them.Story | By Christopher Buice | April 14, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Character, Discernment, Integrity, KindnessWorship element
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Once upon a time in a little village, there appeared a sign that said: Beauty Contest to be held this Saturday at the fair grounds. There will be a surprise guest judge. All the young girls in the village were very excited about being in a beauty contest, and they began to prepare for the big day.Story | By Christopher Buice | April 14, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Character, Discernment, IntegrityWorship element
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“So...what do you want to do with your life???” There was a time when this question haunted me like an existential crisis. Some might call it being in my twenties, but I certainly didn’t feel that such pain was just “to be expected.” I remember pouring over inspirational books. I found few...Reading | By David Ruffin | March 23, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Character, Direct Experience, Identity, Purpose, Searching, Unitarian Universalism, Youth/TeensWorship 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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To repent means to turn in a new direction—not just to admit what we have done wrong, but to resolve to be a better person.Quote | By Jeanne Harrison Nieuwejaar | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Choice, Growth, Integrity, Psychology, Transformation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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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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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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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, we are here because we believe what we do matters. We are here because we believe how we live our life matters. That with every act of kindness or meanness, courage or fear, love or hate, we are weaving the fabric of the universe that holds us all. We are here because we...Meditation | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | February 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, Brokenness, Challenge, Character, Choice, Commitment, Conscience, Disaster or Crisis, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element -
"All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural....Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Earth, History, Mystery, Power, SpiritualityWorship element
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Spirit of life, we come together this Easter morning to rejoice in your ongoing creation around us and within us. We come to rejoice, but we come with burdens of sorrow and pain, of shame and fear, of false obligation and false pride. On this Easter morning may we discover a joyous and courageous...Meditation | By Ruth E Gibson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Character, Creativity, Easter, Hope, PowerWorship element
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As we leave this community of the spirit, May we remember the difficult lesson That each day offers more things than we can do. May we do what needs to be done, Postpone what does not, And be at peace with what we can be and do. Therefore, may we learn to separate That which matters most And that...Closing | By Richard S. Gilbert | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Choice, Integrity, Meaning, Mindfulness, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element